A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
by Thoreau, Henry David
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- Original brown blindstamped cloth. Spine perished, boards edgeworn and detached. Textblock clean and sound. Review of the book t
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About This Item
The review opens as follows:
In looking over this book we have been agreeably disappointed. [...] With all this, however, Mr. Thoreau's book has rare merits. The author is an enthusiast and a scientific one upon the works and scenes of Nature [...]
This copy includes 2 pencil corrections in the margins, likely in Thoreau's hand, executed in the text in ink in a precise hand (almost certainly that of Frothingham): at p. 120, wash; at p. 139, diency, experience corrected in ink to expediency.
After he moved to Jersey City and New York, Frothingham became a champion of nonsectarian religious thought, and wrote frequent criticism, reviewing, for example, Renan's Life of Jesus for the Christian Examiner in 1863. He was also the first historian of Transcendentalism; his work, Transcendentalism in New England (1876), remains the most comprehensive in its historical scope (yet even when it first appeared, it was faulted for neglecting Thoreau).
This review is not recorded in Borst's Henry David Thoreau, A Reference Guide (1987), nor in Scharnhorst (1992) or Cameron's two Supplements (1997). It is notable that no reference is made to Thoreau's theology, which so incensed other contemporaries; and that the reviewer has identified Thoreau as an important writer on nature in the line of Gilbert White.
A contemporary copy with AN UNREPORTED REVIEW OF THOREAU'S FIRST BOOK. BAL 20104; Borst A1.1.a; for Frothingham, see: Caruthers, Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Gentle Radical (Univ. of Alabama Pr., 1977)
Synopsis
Originally published: 1849. "The definitive text as approved by the Center for Editions of American Authors of the Modern Language Association of America"--Cover, p. [4]. Includes index.
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 261635
- Title
- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- Author
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Format/Binding
- 413, [3] pp. With terminal advertisement leaf announcing "Will Soon Be Published Walden, or Life in the Woods ...". 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original brown blindstamped cloth. Spine perished, boards edgeworn and detached. Textblock clean and sound. Review of the book t
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition of the author's first book
- Publisher
- James Munroe and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1849
- Keywords
- American | Henry David Thoreau
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- Literature;
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