Walden; or, Life in the woods
By: By Henry D. Thoreau ...
Contributors: Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, inscriber; Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887, former owner
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Published: 1854
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Natural history; Transcendentalism (New England)
Notes: Title vignette (Thoreau's hut at Walden Pond); the plan is of Walden Pond, 1846.

First ed. "The beginning 'Light-winged smoke, Icarian bird' (p. 271) were published in the Dial, for April, 1843, under title of 'Smoke,' but nothing else in the book appears ever to have been printed before." - F.H. Allen, A bibl. of H.D. Thoreau, 1908.

"Complemental verses" by T. Carew: p. 87.

Advertising matter, dated April, 1854: 8 p. at end.

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SCNHRB copy 39088001654326 has presentation inscription on the free front endpaper: “Spencer F. Baird Esq, with the regards of/H.D.T” (Henry David Thoreau).