first edition
1865
by Thoreau, Henry D[avid]
1865. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. 24 pp ads dated Dec 1864. Original blind-stamped dark green cloth.
First Edition, first printing, which consisted of only 2,000 or 2,040 copies (of which some were sent to England to be issued with a cancel title page) -- printed in December 1864, but not actually published until late March 1865. Edited by the younger William Ellery Channing and by Sophia Thoreau, this was the fifth Thoreau book, preceded by A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS, WALDEN, and the posthumous EXCURSIONS and THE MAINE WOODS. Describing the natural environment and people of 'the bare and bended arm of Massachusetts,' (truncated)
First Edition, first printing, which consisted of only 2,000 or 2,040 copies (of which some were sent to England to be issued with a cancel title page) -- printed in December 1864, but not actually published until late March 1865. Edited by the younger William Ellery Channing and by Sophia Thoreau, this was the fifth Thoreau book, preceded by A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS, WALDEN, and the posthumous EXCURSIONS and THE MAINE WOODS. Describing the natural environment and people of 'the bare and bended arm of Massachusetts,' (truncated)