To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth and
TarcherPerigee's publication of Expect Great Things: The Life of Henry
David Thoreau, here is a sumptuous rediscovery edition of the first
illustrated volume of Thoreau's classic, as originally issued in 1897.
In 1897, thirty-five years after Thoreau's death, Houghton Mifflin
issued a two-volume Holiday Edition of Walden illustrated with thirty
remarkable engravings, daguerreotypes, and period photographs. In 1902
the publisher collected the work into a single volume. Now, to mark the
bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 1817, this timeless landmark is
reproduced with all of the original illustrations and the complete text
of his mystical, practical, magisterial record of a life in the woods.