The Value of Simplicity

Boston: H. M. Caldwell Company, 1905. Near Very Good condition. Bound in the original off-white cloth -- a little rubbed and soiled -- but cleaner than most people would expect with white cloth from 1905. Gilt lettering and decorations on the spine and front cover are still fairly bright and shiny. Top edge gilt. NO owner's name or bookplate. Endpapers and text pages are cream-colored with pretty pale pink floral decorations printed in the background. Pages are clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Collected here are selections on the subject of simplicity from the poetry and prose of famous people such as H. D. Thoreau, John Burroughs, Izaak Walton, Rudyard Kipling, Balzac, J. G. Whittier, William Wordsworth, Felix Adler, William Ellery Channing, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, General Gordon, Shakespeare, Thomas Gray, William Morris, George Macdonald, Theodore Roosevelt, Lord Byron, Ben Franklin, Booker T. Washington, Walt Whitman, Gelett Burgess, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Goethe, Ovid, Robert Herrick, etc. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good condition/No dust jacket. 8vo. xii, 172pp.…