Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First edition. 8vo. 319 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Thoreau, with tissue guard. Publisher's blue-green cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; brown endpapers; light offsetting from frontispiece onto title-page. Borst A3.1.a; BAL 20111

A handsome copy of Thoreau's third book, the first published following his death the previous year. Published on October 10, 1863 in an edition of 1,558 copies.