THOREAU BOOKS:

BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARIES OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND OF OTHER MEMBERS OF THE THOREAU FAMILY, 1776-1869

Oswald, John (1804-1867).  An etymological dictionary of the English language, on a plan entirely new.  By John Oswald …  Revised and improved and especially adapted to the purpose of teaching English composition in schools and academies, by J.M. Keagy (Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle, 1844).  10, [v]-xxx, [31]-523, 20 pages.  (Publisher’s advertisements occupy 20 pages following text.)

Signature of Henry D. Thoreau in ink on front paste-down endpaper.  Originally presented to the CFPL by Sophia E. Thoreau, 1874.  Deaccessioned by the CFPL in 1906.  Bookplate of Stephen H. Wakeman tipped to front free endpaper (No. 1063 in the [1924] printed catalog of the Stephen H. Wakeman Collection).  Purchased by George Russell Ready of Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, in 1963.  Presented by George Russell Ready to the CFPL in 1985.  Quarter-bound in leather and brown (mauve) cloth with swirl pattern.  Accompanied by sales slip and other materials relating to Ready’s purchase of the volume.  Original accession no. 10437.

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Community Preservation funding for this project to conserve the CFPL's Thoreau Books Collection and to provide electronic access to annotated pages within the collection was approved by the citizens of the Town of Concord at Town Meeting in 2008.