Leaves of grass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Contributor:

Bull, Ione K. (Ione Knight), 1876-1959, autographer.

Bailey, O. E., autographer.

David McKay Company, publisher.

Sherman & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.), printer.

State Book Shop (San Jose, Calif.), bookseller.

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Bull, Ione K. (Ione Knight), 1876-1959 (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy)

Bailey, O. E. (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)

State Book Shop (San Jose, Calif.) (label) (Whitman Collection copy)

Physical Description:

382 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

Philadelphia : Sherman & Co., printers.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : David McKay ..., 1882.

Notes:

Author's name, Walt Whitman, appears in copyright statement on verso of title leaf, as well as on cover and spine.

"Single leaf with Samuel Hollyer engraving of Whitman printed on verso, followed by protective tissue, is inserted after p. 28."--Myerson.

"Binding: Medium olive-brown S cloth (diagonal fine-ribbed). Front cover: goldstamped: single-rule frame around facsimile signature at top; back cover: blank; spine: goldstamped ... Front and back flyleaves. Light green leaf and vine design endpapers printed on one side. All edges trimmed."--Myerson.

Local Notes:

Whitman Collection copy has a few manuscript marks in pencil in text.

Whitman Collection copy has autograph ("Ione K. Bull") of Ethel Ione Bull (née Knight; 1876-1959) on front pastedown; autograph ("O E Bailey") in pencil on verso of blank leaf preceding back free endpaper.

Whitman Collection copy) has bookseller's label ("State Book Shop SAN JOSE") of State Book Shop (San Jose, Calif.) on back pastedown.

Cited in:

Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, A2.7.i, pages 102-104

Other Format:

Online version: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass.

OCLC:

12413591