
Illustrated WALDEN with Photographs from the Gleason Collection
This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason, who had a special love for what he called "the simple beauty of New England," became interested in Thoreau''s work when commissioned in 1906 by the Houghton Mifflin Company to illustrate their edition of The Writ...
This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason, who had a special love for what he called "the simple beauty of New England," became interested in Thoreau''s work when commissioned in 1906 by the Houghton Mifflin Company to illustrate their edition of The Writ...