Descriptive Bibliography

74. Samuel Arthur Jones. Bibliography of Henry David Thoreau, with an Outline of His Life (New York: Printed for the Rowfant Club of Cleveland by the DeVinne Press, 1894).

Jones, Biography of HDT

From the Thoreau library of Alfred Winslow Hosmer (part of the CFPL Concord Authors Collection). Gift of Alfred Winslow Hosmer, 1949.

This publication by the Rowfant Club—founded in Cleveland in 1892 and still going strong—suggests the role of book collectors’ clubs in supporting descriptive bibliography.

 

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