The Essay on Friendship. By Henry David Thoreau. The Roycroft Shop, 1903. 45 pp. Suede cover. Cover has moderate wear to edges. Some pages are loosening inside. Overall decent for its age. One of the popular public books printed at the beginning of the 1900s, that excerpted part of Thoreau's "Wednesday" chapter from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers to become a stand-alone essay.