Alfred W. Hosmers's grangerized life of Henry David Thoreau, by Henry S. Salt (2nd ed.) : copy of printed book extensively extra-illustrated by Alfred W. Hosmer, 1896-1903.

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Alfred W. Hosmers's grangerized life of Henry David Thoreau, by Henry S. Salt (2nd ed.) : copy of printed book extensively extra-illustrated by Alfred W. Hosmer, 1896-1903.

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Hosmer's extra-illustrated copy of the second edition of Salt's Life of Henry David Thoreau (London: Walter Scott, 1896), Hosmer's numerous additions expanding the single volume of the work as printed into two volumes. Hosmer added to Salt as printed: photographs, many of them Hosmer's own, annotated in Hosmer's hand with quotations from Thoreau; letters; and pieces of manuscript. The volumes include Hosmer's manuscript indexes to added materials, letters and a school composition ("The Seasons") by Thoreau. (Cont.) a certificate of surveying by Thoreau, receipts signed by Thoreau's father John, and letters to various correspondents by H.G.O. Blake, W.E. Channing, R.W. Emerson, Horace Greeley, Parker Pillsbury, Daniel Ricketson, Maria Thoreau, Sophia Thoreau, and others. The added photographs are primarily of people and places known to Thoreau.

2 v. : ill., ports. ; 27 cm.

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