The Writings of John Burroughs, with Portraits and Many Illustrations, in Twenty [20] Volumes: Wake Robin; Winter Sunshine; Birds and Poets; Locusts and Wild Honey; Pepacton; Fresh Fields; Signs and Seasons; Indoor Studies; Riverby; Whitman; The Light of…

Complete in twenty volumes, though additional volumes were released subsequently -- at the time of publication in 1919, this set comprised Burroughs entire body of work. Original turquoise cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt. Each volume includes black-and-white frontispiece and several photographic plates. John Burroughs was an influential naturalist in the 19th and early 20th century, particularly in his advocacy of environmental conservation, and is perhaps only overshadowed as a nature essayist by Henry David Thoreau. Each year, beginning in 1926, great works in natural history are awarded the John Burroughs Medal named in his honor. Includes: Wake Robin; Winter Sunshine; Birds and Poets; Locusts and Wild Honey; Pepacton; Fresh Fields; Signs and Seasons; Indoor Studies; Riverby; Whitman; The Light of Day; Literary Values; Far and Near; Ways of Nature; Leaf and Tendril; Time and Change; The Summit of the Years; The Breath of Life; Under the Apple-Trees; Field and Study.