BIB_ID
288110
Accession number
MA 1302.6
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1841 Nov. 29-1842 Apr. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (ca. 136 p.), bound ; 21.6 cm
Notes
High reserve.
In 1878-1885, H.G.O. Blake published selections from Thoreau's journals. This volume has blue and black pencil use-marks by Blake throughout.
Includes notes in pencil on front paste-down.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
Top inch of front flyleaf and top third of p. 6-7 cut away.
In 1878-1885, H.G.O. Blake published selections from Thoreau's journals. This volume has blue and black pencil use-marks by Blake throughout.
Includes notes in pencil on front paste-down.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
Top inch of front flyleaf and top third of p. 6-7 cut away.
Provenance
By descent in 1862 to Thoreau's sister, Sophia; by descent in 1876 to Thoreau's friend and correspondent, H.G.O. Blake; by descent in 1898 to E.H. Russell; sold around 1906; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Housed in
Brown quarter leather drop-spine box (27.8 cm)
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