Their friendship was often strained for other reasons about the same time Thoreau was living in his cabin at Walden Pond, Keyes was seeing his father's will through probate- the largest estate ever probated in Concord up to that time, and soon after he built a grand home near the town center. He was also a fellow suitor of Ellen Sewall, who famously declined Thoreau's marriage proposal. Keyes." Keyes was a close friend and classmate of Henry David Thoreau, just a year or two younger. From the library of John Shepard Keyes with his ownership SIGNATURE in ink on the front fly: "John S. True first printing with list of Thoreau's books priced. BAL 20113: 1650 copies printed though Borst A4.1.a states that 1450 copies were printed. photos always available to serious customers. Last page of the adverts state "The Thirteenth Volume". The cloth is a variant not listed in BAL. Another of 1650 copies published in May, 1864 with the list of Thoreau's books priced and no edition statement on the copyright page, 20+ pages of advertisements bound in at the rear dated April 1864. Adhesive remnants on bottom edge of front pastedown from address label carefully removed, and on second free end paper where a newspaper (20th century) photo of Thoreau has been also carefully removed leaving a ghost, some adhesive and ink from reverse of clipping. A terrific copy, the cloth is clean and vibrant, and the whole is tightly bound.
Boards lightly rubbed at extremities, spine especially showing wear at head and foot, threads showing there and corners.
Octavo in unfaded original green pebble-grained cloth, gilt titles to spine, brown coated endpapers, boards blind embossed with eight-point corner pieces with wreath central both front and rear.
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