1888 Scarce Victorian Book - WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau.

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Author : Henry David Thoreau; Will H. Dircks (Introduction).
Title : WALDEN.
Language : Text in English.
Publisher : London: Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, 1888.
Size : 7 " X 5 ".
Pages :  xxviii-336 pages + 4 pages of catalogue.
Binding : Scarce attractive and very good gilt decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, gilt is very bight - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover.  
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, all edges gilt).

The book : Scarce in this beautiful binding, this is the 1888 edition of Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance.

The author : Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.