[Rarebooks] FS: PERTAINING TO THOREAU, 1901

[Charles Agvent]

(THOREAU, Henry David) [Jones, Samuel Arthur] editor. PERTAINING TO 
THOREAU. Detroit: Edwin B. Hill, 1901. First Edition. Original brown 
cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; xviii, 171 pages. Although there 
is no indication of such, this title was apparently limited to only 225 
copies according to an issue of The Thoreau Society Bulletin dated July 
1949 and the original prospectus, not present here. A collection of ten 
essays and reviews, some of the earliest appreciations or criticisms of 
Thoreau. Includes George Ripley's and James Russell Lowell's reviews of 
Thoreau's first book, Charles Frederick Briggs's review of WALDEN, as 
well as a piece by Amos Bronson Alcott and Henry Williams's memories of 
the Harvard Class of 1837, where he was a classmate of Thoreau's. Owner 
name of A. W. Adair dated May 1901 on the front blank. Light wear. Near 
Fine.

The editor was Thoreau's first bibliographer. Publisher Edwin Hill was 
one of the outstanding pioneers in the spreading of Thoreau's fame. He 
set the type of this book by hand, a task that took nearly two years, as 
he was also working as a full-time journalist during the process, and 
from which he suffered a breakdown that led to tuberculosis. 
(#015692)        $200

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