Description
Riverside Edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, published in Boston by Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
Small octavo, [11 volumes]. Bound in three-quarter green morocco for Charles E. Lauriat Co. of Boston. Title in gilt on spines, with gilt decorations. Marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Light sunning to spines, otherwise fine. All eleven volumes with solid text blocks, light rubbing to spines and tips. Frontispiece portrait with tissue cover in Volume I. Bookplate of Charles N. Dietz appearing in all eleven volumes.
Charles N. Dietz (1853-1933) was the founder of the C.N. Dietz Lumber Company in Omaha, Nebraska and the Sheridan Coal Company in Wyoming.
