I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
— Henry David Thoreau, (1817–1862)
Walking and Other Essays is a numbered limited edition of selected essays by the American philosopher, essayist, and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau. This delicately illustrated collection includes the essays “Walking,” “Autumnal Tints,” “A Winter Walk,” and “Night and Moonlight,” plus an introductory biographical sketch of Thoreau by his friend and literary mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. The book is printed on Mohawk Superfine Text, an acid– and chlorine-free paper manufactured in the United States, and has a hand-sewn linen binding, printed endpapers, and Japanese book cloth over boards cover with a wrapped title band. Text is set in Weiss and titles in Penumbra Half-Serif. This handmade book is limited to an edition of fifty numbered copies.
5.5 x 9.5 in
144 pages
illustrated
Walking and Other Essays is a numbered limited edition of selected essays by the American philosopher, essayist, and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau. This delicately illustrated collection includes the essays “Walking,” “Autumnal Tints,” “A Winter Walk,” and “Night and Moonlight,” plus an introductory biographical sketch of Thoreau by his friend and literary mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. The book is printed on Mohawk Superfine Text, an acid– and chlorine-free paper manufactured in the United States, and has a hand-sewn linen binding, printed endpapers, and Japanese book cloth over boards cover with a wrapped title band. Text is set in Weiss and titles in Penumbra Half-Serif. This handmade book is limited to an edition of fifty numbered copies.
5.5 x 9.5 in
144 pages
illustrated
