Leaves of grass / by Walt Whitman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Contributor:

Clay, John, -1916, printer.

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

Saunders, Henry Scholey, 1864-1951, inscriber.

Cassell & Company, publisher.

Cambridge University Press, printer.

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

People's library

The People's library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--19th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 20th century.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

Saunders, Henry Scholey, 1864-1951 (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy)

Physical Description:

468 pages ; 19 cm.

Manufacture:

Cambridge [England] : John Clay at the University Press.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1909.

Notes:

"Cambridge: Printed by John Clay, M.A. at the University Press."--Page 468.

"Editor's note.": Page opposite title page.

Title and editor's note each within decorative border.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

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

Whitman Collection copy has on front free endpaper dated 20th-century ms. inscription ("To Mrs F.J. Sprague With the Season's Greetings Christmas 1920 from Henry S. Saunders") recording the gift of this volume to Mrs. Franklin Julian Sprague from Henry Scholey Saunders at Christmas 1920.

Whitman Collection copy has 4 unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisement bound in at end of volume.

Whitman Collection copy: front free endpaper detached.

Cited in:

Myerson, J. Walt Whitman, C26

OCLC:

12353920