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Creator:
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817–1862
Title(s):
Where I lived & what I lived for / by Henry David Thoreau.
Additional Title(s):
Where I lived and what I lived for
Published/Created:
Waltham Saint Lawrence [Berkshire, England] : The Golden Cockerel Press, 1924.
Physical Description:
[2], 9-45, [4] pages : illustrations ; 14 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PS3048.5 .W44 1924
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This essay taken from Walden, or, Life in the woods by Henry David Thoreau was printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawence, Berkshire, and compiled on the 10th of October, 1924. Compositors: A.H. Gibbs and F. Young; pressman: A.C. Cooper; wood engraving by Robert Gibbings. The edition is limited to 380 copies, of which 350 are for sale."--Colophon.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 21
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 349 of 380. Bound in original cream quarter parchment with black and blue batik paper covered boards. Printed on Kelmscott hand-made paper.
Subject Terms:
Conduct of life.
Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1924.
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence.
Contributors:
Gibbings, Robert, 1889–1958, engraver.
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
Cooper, A. C. (Albert C.), pressman.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817–1862. Walden, or, Life in the woods.
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