- GLC#
- GLC00326
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1849
- Author/Creator
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
- Title
- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 413 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 13 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
First edition printing in original brown pebble cloth. Printed by James Munroe & Co., Boston; New York : George P. Putnam; Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blackiston; London : John Chapman, 1849. Based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire. Book is inscribed on first blank plate, "To Starr King/ from his friend William L. Aeger/ Jan 1859." Also signed in pencil on title page by Edith K. Davis, possibly at a later date.
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