A Yankee in Canada, : with Anti-slavery and reform papers.
1866
First edition, edited by Sophia E. Thoreau and William Ellery Channing The first three chapters of A Yankee in Canada appeared in Putnam's magazine in 1853 under the title "Excursion to Canada." "Prayers" was attributed to Thoreau by mistake, only a prayer in verse included being his (on p. 120, with first line "Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf"). The essay itself, first published in the Dial, is by Emerson, and is now published in his Natural history of the intellect Bound in publisher's cloth; BAL notes 3 variant designs and a variety of cloth grains and colors; Borst details cloth variants, but describes only the design corresponding to BAL binding A BAL Borst, R.R. Thoreau Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy rebound inhouse
