Selected poems / by Walt Whitman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Contributor:

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

Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929, former owner.

Charles L. Webster and Company, publisher.

Jenkins & McCowan, printer.

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Fiction, fact, and fancy series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

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

Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929 (former owner) (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 13-179 pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 19 cm.

Manufacture:

New York : Press of Jenkins & McCowan.

Place of Publication:

New York : Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892.

Contents:

Nature, man, and self

Interludes

Drum-taps

Memories of President Lincoln

Old age, death, and immortality

Leaves of grass

Good- bye my fancy!

Notes:

Place of printing and printer's name from verso of title leaf.

Publisher's advertisements on pages [i], [iv], and [181]-[187].

Local Notes:

Whitman Collection copy has manuscript note ("Mark Twain") in pencil on page [iv].

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

Whitman Collection copy has manuscript provenance inscription ("Given H.C.S. [that is, Harriet Chapman Sprague] Jan 27th - 1920 by Brander Matthews - who has had this book since its publication - in 1892") in pencil on verso of blank leaf preceding back free endpaper.

Cited in:

Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, C 7.1.a1, page 430

BAL 21638

Other Format:

Online version: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Poems. Selections. Selected poems.

OCLC:

1260621