THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1854. 8vo, original brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt-lettered, recased with restoration at ends of spine, map of Walden Pond lacking, brown cloth case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (one of 2000 copies), title vignette of Thoreau's hut, 8-page publisher's catalgoue dated May 1854 inserted at rear, ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON'S WIFE Lydia Jackson Emerson on the front free endpaper: "Emma C. Whipple with kind regards of L.J. Emerson." The Thoreau-Emerson relationship was one of the most significant in American letters: Thoreau was an intimate of the Emerson household in Concord and it was on Emerson's property beside Walden Pond that he lived from 1845-47. The recipient, Emma C. Whipple, might have been the wife (or relative) of Edwin Percy Whipple, a Boston critic and member of the Emerson circle. With two newspaper clippings pasted or laid in (one giving an account of Thoreau's funeral). Borst As.1.a; BAL 20106; Grolier American 63. Heraldic bookplate of Frank Goodwin.