Walt Whitman, a study / by John Addington Symonds ; with portrait and four illustrations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893, author.

Contributor:

Nimmo, John C., -1908, publisher.

Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Whitman, Walt.

Poets, American--19th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Genre:

Biographies

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Schleifer, Edith (donor) (Location copy)

Schleifer, Steven (donor) (Location copy)

Schleifer, Benjamin (honoree) (Location copy)

Physical Description:

xxxv, [1], 160 pages, [5] leaves of plates : 2 illustrations, 1 facsimile, 2 portraits ; 26 cm

Edition:

Large paper edition.

Manufacture:

London ; and Edinburgh : Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.

Place of Publication:

London : John C. Nimmo, 14 King William Street, Strand, MDCCCXCIII [1893]

Notes:

"Large paper edition"--Spine label.

"Two hundred and eight copies of this Edition printed on Arnold's Unbleached Handmade Paper. Each numbered. No. [blank]"--Verso of half-title leaf.

Title in red and black.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare copy is number 15 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 208 copies. See limitation statement.

LIBRA Rare copy has manuscript inscription ("T.H. No. 1801.") in blue ink on front pastedown; manuscript note ("Large Paper.") in faded blue ink on front free endpaper.

LIBRA Rare copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Edith and Steven Schleifer in memory of Benjamin Schleifer.

LIBRA Rare copy extra-illustrated as follows: affixed to front pastedown: 2 printed paper slips from an article from an unidentified 1910 publication lauding Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman (with manuscript inscription: C.K.S.), printed paper slip with Whitman's poem "To-day, to-day, and thee" (possibly from a Maggs Brother's catalogue of the 1910s), and 3 paper printed paper slips each with bookseller's description of copies of this edition; affixed to verso of front free endpaper: portion of paper leaf (from a bookseller's catalog?) with facsimile of first page of autograph manuscript by Walt Whitman on Edgar Allan Poe; affixed to blank leaf following front free endpaper: printed paper slip with poem "Walt Whitman" by Edwin Arlington Robinson; affixed to blank leaf preceding title leaf reproduction of George C. Cox's photographic portrait of Whitman from an unidentified publication (recto) and bookseller's printed description of a Walt Whitman manuscript titled "Walt Whitman's birthday" (verso); affixed to verso of blank leaf following last printed leaf: color illustration from "Leaves of grass" (signed M.C. Cook) from an unidentified publication; affixed to verso of blank leaf preceding back free endpaper: portion of paper leaf (from a bookseller's catalog?) with facsimile of Whitman's manuscript epigraph to the 4th edition of "Leaves of grass"; affixed to back free endpaper: bookseller's printed description of a Walt Whitman manuscript titled "The poem of ships" (recto) and two paper slips containing bookseller's printed description of a Walt Whitman manucript titled "Edgar Poe's significance" (verso); affixed to back pastedown: photographic portrait with caption "Walt Whitman at 62."

Cited in:

Myerson, J. Whitman, p. 506

OCLC:

36908796