[Rarebooks] FS: Homes of American Authors, 1853: first mention in a book of Thoreau at Walden

[Charles Agvent]

We will be offering some very nice items by Thoreau and other 19th 
century authors this fall.

[PUTNAM,  George  P.  & BRIGGS, Charles F.  (editors)].  HOMES  OF
AMERICAN  AUTHORS;  COMPRISING ANECDOTICAL, PERSONAL, AND  DESCRIPTIVE
SKETCHES  BY  VARIOUS  WRITERS.  New York: G. P.  Putnam  1853.  First
Edition.  Original  decorated  blue  cloth with gilt  insets  on  each
cover.  The  homes  of 17 authors are described and  illustrated  with
views  of their residences from original drawings and a facsimile of a
manuscript  for  each.  Included  are John  James  Audubon,  James  K.
Paulding,  Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, George  Bancroft,
Richard  Henry  Dana,  William H. Prescott, Miss C.  M.  Sedgwick,  J.
Fenimore  Cooper, Edward Everett, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Gilmore
Simms,  Henry W. Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, John
Pendleton   Kennedy,  and  James  Russell   Lowell.  Fourteen  of  the
illustrations  are small color-tinted and mounted views; nineteen  are
full-page  steel  engravings.  BAL 1345: the  most  expensive  "proof"
issue;  Bennett,  AMERICAN COLOR PLATE BOOKS, p. 58.  Authors  include
George  W. Curtis, William C. Bryant, and Edward E. Hale. The piece on
Emerson  includes apparently the first mention in a book of Thoreau at
Walden  Pond. Toning to text, light and scattered foxing. Cloth rubbed
especially  along  the edges, with some splits along the  joints,  but
covers tight. Very Good copy of this handsome volume.          $300.00

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