Solitude: An Essay from Walden
Henry David Thoreau. Aquarius Press, Baltimore, 1971.
11 woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara on Moriki and Hosho mulberry paper. Square folio, prints and text volume in pictorial paper-covered portfolio case, tips and spine ends scuffed with some loss, some spotting to tray case and margins of the first few prints. number 23 of 200 copies signed by matsubara.
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“What is the pill which will keep us well, serene, contented? Not my or thy great-grandfather’s, but our great-grandmother Nature’s universal, vegetable, botanic medicines, by which she has kept herself young always, outlived so many old Parrs in her day, and fed her health with their decaying fatness. For my panacea, instead of one of those quack vials of a mixture dipped from Acheron and the Dead Sea, which come out of those long shallow black-schooner looking wagons which we sometimes see made to carry bottles, let me have a draught of undiluted morning air. Morning air! If men will not drink of this at the fountainhead of the day, why, then, we must even bottle up some and sell it in the shops, for the benefit of those who have lost their subscription ticket to morning time in this world. “
