22 volumes, 8vo. Numerous engraved hand-colored plates. Contemporary brown morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut.

LIMITED EDITION, number 17 of 600 copies of the "Manuscript Edition." The collected works of Thoreau, a leading transcendentalist of the 19th-century most famous for Walden, a reflection on simple living amidst nature. 

[Bound into Volume I:] THOREAU, Henry David. Autograph manuscript. 2 pp., 4to (191 x 241 mm) in ink on paper with some pencil corrections comprising 29 lines on each side. Describes, in part, Thoreau's study of various types of flora: "I think that what are described...as the autumnal tints of the oaks, are for the most part those tints or hues which they have when partially without, corresponding to those which more truly deciduous trees have when possibly fallen..."