{"product_id":"1886-rare-first-uk-edition-walden-by-henry-david-thoreau","title":"1886 Rare First UK Edition - Walden by Henry David Thoreau","description":"\u003cp dir=\"auto\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst UK Edition of Thoreau’s Walden, published in London in 1886 as part of the Camelot Classics series, retaining its original blue cloth and remarkably well-preserved printed spine label.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Henry David Thoreau; Will H. Dircks (introductory note).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eWalden.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, 1886.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First UK Edition. The Camelot Classics, edited by Ernest Rhys, with an introductory note by Will H. Dircks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e xxviii, 336 pages + publisher’s catalogue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7 x 5 inches.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good original blue cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine (light general wear, rubbing and minor marks to cloth, slight wear at spine ends and corners; spine label unusually complete and clearly legible, as shown). Protected in a removable mylar cover. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContent:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good content (complete, with foxing and occasional staining, more noticeable on the endpapers and scattered through the text, as shown). Untrimmed fore and lower edges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/strong\u003e Decorative floral headpieces, tailpieces and ornamental initial letters throughout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEstimate: \u003c\/strong\u003eUSD 300–400.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in Boston in 1854, \u003cem\u003eWalden\u003c\/em\u003e grew from the little more than two years Thoreau spent living in a cabin he built near Walden Pond at Concord, Massachusetts. Part memoir, part philosophical meditation and part critique of material society, it became one of the defining works of American transcendentalism and one of the most enduring books written about simplicity, self-reliance, nature and deliberate living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThis 1886 Walter Scott edition is the \u003cstrong\u003eFirst UK Edition of \u003cem\u003eWalden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. Issued in Ernest Rhys’s \u003cem\u003eCamelot Classics\u003c\/em\u003e series, it includes a substantial introductory note by Will H. Dircks, decorative ornaments throughout, and an appendix containing an excerpt from \u003cem\u003eA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers\u003c\/em\u003e together with several poems. An appealing and increasingly collectible early British edition of one of the foundational works of American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American writer, naturalist and philosopher closely associated with the transcendentalist movement centred around Concord, Massachusetts. A contemporary and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, he combined close observation of nature with an independent philosophy centred on simplicity, personal conscience and resistance to social conformity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThoreau’s influence extends far beyond nature writing. Alongside \u003cem\u003eWalden\u003c\/em\u003e, his essay \u003cem\u003eCivil Disobedience\u003c\/em\u003e became one of his most influential works, shaping later discussions of individual conscience, government authority and nonviolent resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFLIBRA - Antique Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49118887477497,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0953\/3348\/files\/20260920walden_01.jpg?v=1789936048","url":"https:\/\/mflibra.com\/products\/1886-rare-first-uk-edition-walden-by-henry-david-thoreau","provider":"MFLIBRA - Antique Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}