Leaves of grass : comprising all the poems written by Walt Whitman : following the arrangement of the edition of 1891-'2.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Contributor:

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982, illustrator, engraver.

Grabhorn, Edwin E., printer.

Grabhorn, Robert, printer.

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, type designer.

Random House (Firm), publisher.

Arnold & Foster, Ltd., papermaker.

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--19th century.

American poetry.

Private presses--United States--Specimens.

Private presses.

Wood-engraving--Specimens.

Wood-engraving.

United States.

Genre:

Specimens.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Goudy New Style.

Case bindings (Binding)

Wooden boards (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Poems.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 423 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 37 cm

Manufacture:

San Francisco : Edwin and Robert Grabhorn.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Random House, Inc., New York, 1930.

Notes:

Caption page of "Leaves of Grass" is printed in red and black; also, final sentence in volume printed in red and black: "Good bye and hail, my fancy."; page 423.

"Printed in the United States of America"--Title page verso.

"400 copies by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn San Francisco Woodcuts by Valenti Angelo This is copy [blank]"--Title page verso.

"Page of limitation printed in red and black; caption title and last two lines of text in red. Thirty-seven woodcuts by Valenti Angelo. Type Goudy New Style, handset; paper Unbleached Arnold. Bound in Philippine mahogany with red niger back; publisher's device carved on front cover; title blindstamped on back."--Heller.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy 1 is number 81.

Kislak Center copy 2 (Whitman copy) has woodcut from Valenti Angelo, signed in pencil, in cream colored frame. Copy 2 has: "... This is copy number 232".

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 385 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 400 copies. See verso of title leaf.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: boards damaged at tail outer corner.

Cited in:

Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, page 456

Heller, E.R., Grabhorn Press, 138

OCLC:

1361145