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Poems / by Walt Whitman ; selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 811W 1868 Whitman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Meredith, George, 1828-1909--Library.
- Meredith, George.
- Meredith, George, 1828-1909.
- Libraries.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 (bookplate) (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917 (bookplate) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919 (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy)
- W. Bone & Son (label) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 403 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 18 cm
- Manufacture:
- London : Savill, Edwards and Co., printers ...
- Place of Publication:
- London : John Camden Hotten ..., 1868.
- Notes:
- BAL describes 4 states of binding ("A-D"), the sequence uncertain. Publisher's advertisements (8, 8, 16 p.) inserted in copies in binding states A-B.
- "For a full discussion of this edition, see Morton D. Paley, 'John Camden Hotten and the First British Editions of Walt Whitman--"A Nice Milky Cocoa-Nut,"' Publishing History, 6 (1979), 5-35"--Myerson.
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy has two paper slips with manuscript notes in pencil laid in; manuscript note and underlines in pencil on page 267.
- Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.
- Whitman Collection copy has illustrated bookplate of William Bell Scott on front pastedown; illustrated bookplate of H. Buxton Forman on front free endpaper.
- Whitman Collection copy has dated 19th-century manuscript inscription ("William B. Scott March 1868. From W.M.R.") on half-title leaf.
- Whitman Collection copy has laid in clipping from The bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute (25 December 1920) headlined: Olivia Rossetti Agresti.
- Whitman Collection copy bound in BAL binding style "A" with publisher's advertisements (8, 8, 16 p.) inserted at end of volume. Binder's ticket of W. Bone & Son affixed to back pastedown.
- Whitman Collection copy: portions of textblock detached from each other and from binding. Housed in blue case.
- Cited in:
- BAL 21401
- Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, C 1.1, page 423
- Other Format:
- Online version: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Poems. Selections. Poems.
- OCLC:
- 1061841
- Publisher Number:
- ocm01061841
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