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The complete writings of Walt Whitman / issued under the editorial supervision of his literary executors, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, and Horace L. Traubel ; with additional bibliographical and critical material prepared by Oscar Lovell Triggs ...
LIBRA PS3200 .F02 v.1-v.10
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 811W 1902 Whitman copy v.1-10
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861-1944 (donor) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 10 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- The book-lover's Camden edition.
- Manufacture:
- New York : The Knickerbocker Press.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; & London : G.P. Putnam's Sons ..., 1902.
- Contents:
- Volumes 1-3. Leaves of grass
- volumes 1-7 [volumes 4-10]. The complete prose works.
- Notes:
- Limited to 500 signed and numbered sets; "signed" "G.P. Putnam's Sons" in script printed on limitation page. See also Myerson "edition" (6).
- Each volume has special dated title leaf with imprint: G.P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1902.
- Printer statement ("The Knickerbocker Press, New York") on verso of volume title leaves.
- "Entered at Stationers Hall"--Verso of volume title leaves.
- Each volume has illustrated brown ex-libris (with blank space for the owner's name) printed on front pastedown.
- General title leaf of each volume in red and green within green ornamental border.
- Volumes [1], [3]-[4], [6]-[9] each has one general title leaf plate and four illustrative plates ; volumes [2], [5], and [10] each has one general title leaf plate and five illustrative plates.
- Binding: "Gray paper-covered boards with goldstamped vellum shelfback and 'Camden Edition' on spine; or full leather. Gray-green linen dust jackets with green 'WRITINGS | OF | [floral design] WALT [floral design] | WHITMAN' on the spine in the same style as in the shelfback."--Myerson.
- Bibliography of Walt Whitman, compiled by O.L. Triggs: Volume [10], pages 139-233.
- Includes indexes at end of volumes [3] and [10].
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy is number 297 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in red ink) of a limited edition of 500 signed and numbered sets. See limitation page.
- Whitman Collection copy: volume [10] has manuscript correction to text in pencil on page 180.
- Whitman Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 1932 by Dr. Charles W. Burr.
- Whitman Collection copy bound in gray paper-covered boards with goldstamped vellum shelfback and 'Camden Edition' on spine. Dust jacket wanting.
- Cited in:
- Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, B 4, pages 415-417
- Other Format:
- Online version: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Complete writings of Walt Whitman.
- OCLC:
- 15682962
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