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The eighteenth presidency! : voice of Walt Whitman to each young man in the nation, north, south, east and west.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 811W L1928.2 Whitman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Campaign literature, 1856--Republican.
- Campaign literature, 1856.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Catel, Jean (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 31 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 25 cm
- Manufacture:
- Montpellier : Achevè d'imprimer par Causse, Graille & Castelnau ..., en janvier 1928.
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Édition "Tambour", 3, Rue Berthollet ..., [1928]
- Language Note:
- Prefatory note in French.
- Notes:
- Place of publication and publisher's name from label affixed to title page. Printer statement from colophon on page [32].
- Prefatory note signed: Jean Catel.
- French translation, with title "Discours de la 18e présidence," by Mlle. Adrienne Monnier, appeared in the March, 1926, issue of the Navire d'argent. See Prefatory note.
- A pamphlet written for the presidential campaign of 1856. This appears to be the first printing from proof-sheets found apparently in the Library of Congress. The same material is to be found in "Walt Whitman's workshop. A collection of unpublished manuscripts. Edited ... by Clifton Joseph Furness," published also in 1928, but apparently after Jean Catel's edition, for Mr. Furness's preface is dated Aug. 8, 1928.
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy has paper slip with manuscript note in pencil laid in.
- Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.
- Whitman Collection copy has dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("to Mrs. Frank J. Sprague avec la sympathie de Jean Catel Montpellier Janvier 1930") on title leaf.
- Cited in:
- Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, A 27.1.a2, pages 316-317
- OCLC:
- 1034489
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