The Maine woods. / By Henry D. Thoreau, author of "A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," "Walden," "Excursions," etc., etc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.

Contributor:

Thoreau, Sophia E., Editor.

Channing, William Ellery, 1817-1901, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maine--Description and travel.

Maine.

Piscataquis County (Me.)--Description and travel.

Piscataquis County (Me.).

Travel.

Maine--Piscataquis County.

Genre:

Bookplates (Provenance)

Physical Description:

[8], 328, 22 p. ; 19 cm.

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Ticknor and Fields., 1864. ([Cambridge, Mass.] : University Press: Welch, Bigelow, and Company, Cambridge.)

Contents:

Ktaadn

Chesuncook

The Allegash and East Branch

Appendix (Trees. Flowers and shrubs. List of plants. List of birds. Quadrupeds. Outfit for an excursion. A list of Indian words).

Notes:

Edited by Sophia E. Thoreau and William Ellery Channing.

First edition, distinguished by absence of edition statement on title verso, and inclusion of prices in the list of "Mr. Thoreau's writings" facing the title. The second printing has "Second edition" on the title verso, and omits prices in the list. See BAL, which cautions that some copies of the second printing have been seen with the edition statement scraped off.

Title page vignette (publisher's device).

"Mr. Thoreau's writings" (priced list of author's work)--facing t.p.; all 1.25 except A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1.50

"Cambridge: Stereotyped and printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co."--Colophon, p. 328

Bound in publisher's cloth, in a variety of grains and colors; covers blind stamped to a design consisting of a central wreath within a frame; spine title in gold, "The Maine woods. By Thoreau. Author of Walden and A week on Concord River."; brown coated endpapers. Some copies have bound at end a catalog (22, [2] p.), dated either April, 1864 or June, 1864.

Collation: pi⁴ 1-13¹² 14⁸ [$1,5 signed]; 168 leaves pp. [8 unn.] [1] 2-80 [81] 82-160 [161] 162-304 [305-307] 308-328. Also includes unused signatures for printing as pi⁴ A-I⁸ J⁸ K-T⁸ U⁴.

Ads at front contain prive for "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers "; inserted ads dated April, 1864.

Cited in:

BAL 20113

Borst, R.R. Thoreau, A4.1.a

Other Format:

Online version: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Maine woods.

OCLC:

12015878