NMLP P-041571 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
Resistance to Civil Government ('Civil Disobedience,' in Aesthetic Papers)
Henry David Thoreau · Aesthetic Papers, edited by Elizabeth P. Peabody — Boston: The Editor; New York: G. P. Putnam · 1849
No book-club issue exists for an 1849 periodical. The reprint tell that matters is the 1866 A Yankee in Canada collection, which is a first-thus for the title "Civil Disobedience" but a reprint of the text; later Ticknor and Fields/Houghton collected editions and the many twentieth-century facsimiles and print-on-demand reissues of Aesthetic Papers (paperback reprints carrying modern ISBNs) are the common traps. Dealers also record that most surviving copies of the 1849 sheets came from unbound remainder stock found after Peabody's death, so a copy in a later or non-original binding is not evidence of a later edition — there was none.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-041571 for "Resistance to Civil Government ('Civil Disobedience,' in Aesthetic Papers)" by Henry David Thoreau (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041571, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).