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20 volumes. Illustrated throughout with photogravures, color plates, etc. (8vo) 8¾x6, contemporary ¾ dark green levant morocco, marbled boards, raised bands, gilt titled and decorated spine compartments, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. No. 191 of 600 copies of the Manuscript Edition.

Inserted in Volume 1 (as issued) is a 2 page holograph manuscript in Thoreau's hand, with corrections, from 'Walking'. The manuscript reads, in part: "Linnaeus said long ago 'Nescio quae facies laeta, glarba plantis Americanus' (I know not what there is of joyous and smooth in the aspect of American plants); and I think that in this country there are no, or at most very few, Africanae bestiae, African beasts, as the Roman's called them, and that in this respect also it is peculiarly fitted for the habitation of man. We are told that within three miles of the center of the East-Indian city of Singapore, some of the inhabitants are annually carried off by tigers; but the traveler can lie down in the woods at night almost anywhere in North America without fear of wild beasts."