Drum-taps / by Walt Whitman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Contributor:

Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones, 1876-1969, former owner.

Chatto & Windus (Firm), publisher.

Billing and Sons, printer.

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (inscription) (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 12 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 17-72 pages ; 17 cm

Manufacture:

Guildford, England : Billing and Sons, Ltd., printers.

Place of Publication:

London : Chatto & Windus, 1915.

Notes:

First English edition, in three states; for a full description of each, see Myerson page 151. "The third state may be the result of a binding error in which the sheets of the first gathering were redistributed into two six-leaf gatherings, with the sheets of the first gathering then shuffled."--Myerson.

"Billing and Sons, Ltd., printers, Guildford, England"--Page 72.

The introduction by Walter de la Mare, which is unsigned, was first published in the London Times.

"Binding: Slight orange FL cloth (dotted-line-ribbed) shelfback with paper-covered sides. Front and back covers: orange and white large circular ornaments and swords on black background; spine: blackstamped 'DRUM | TAPS | * | CHATTO & | WINDUS'. White endpapers. Top and front edges trimmed, bottom edges rough trimmed. Top edges plain or stained yellow or stained orange."--Myerson.

Myerson records three styles of dust jacket ("A"-"C"). For a full description of each, see Myerson page 152.

Local Notes:

Whitman Collection copy is Myerson's first state.

Whitman Collection copy has manuscript note in pencil on page 1.

Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.

Whitman Collection copy has manuscript note ("Given H.C.S. [that is, Harriet Chapman Sprague] by CWH. Apr 7- 1922") in pencil on verso of back free endpaper.

Whitman Collection copy: top edges stained yellow; without dust jacket.

Cited in:

Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, A 3.2, pages 150-152

OCLC:

42641104