Specimen days ; & Collect / by Walt Whitman ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Contributor:

Feinberg, Charles E., 1899-1988, donor.

Stanton, G., former owner.

Mann, Cameron, 1851-1932, former owner.

Rees Welsh & Co., publisher.

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

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Diaries.

Whitman, Walt.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Poets, American--19th century--Diaries.

Poets, American.

United States--Civilization--19th century.

United States.

Civilization.

Genre:

Diaries.

Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Feinberg, Charles E., 1899-1988 (donor) (Whitman Collection copy 1)

Stanton, G. (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy 1)

Mann, Cameron (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

vi, 7-376 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

[Philadelphia] : [Sherman and Company]

Other Title:

Specimen days, and Collect

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Rees Welsh & Co. ..., 1882-'83.

Notes:

Place of printing and printer's name supplied from Myerson.

"Single leaf of coated paper with sepia photograph of Whitman and butterfly printed on recto, preceded by a protective tissue, is inserted after p. 122. Noted with bindings A and B only."--Myerson.

Publisher's advertisement on pages 375-376.

Myerson notes 3 binding styles ("A"-"C"). For a full description of each, see Myerson 213.

Local Notes:

Whitman Collection copy 1 has a few ms. marks in pencil in text.

Whitman Collection copy 1 presented to the Penn Libraries in 1953 by Charles E. Feinberg.

Whitman Collection copy 1 has partially illegible dated 20th-century autograph ("G. Stanton V[?]. MCMXLVII[?] [...]") on front pastedown.

Whitman Collection copy 1 has armorial bookplate (with motto: Fide et fiducia) of an unidentified former owner affixed to front pastedown.

Whitman Collection copy 1 bound in Myerson style "B".

Whitman Collection copy 2 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1942.

Whitman Collection copy 2 has dated 19th-century autograph ("Cameron Mann Kansas City 1883") on front free endpaper.

Whitman Collection copy 2 has paper slips printed with booksellers' descriptions of copies of Whitman's works, 1 from "Catalogue of Parry & Co, Liverpool, 1893" and 2 from "Catalogue of W. E. Benjamin, N.Y., Feb 1900" (the titles supplied in manuscript), affixed to back free endpaper.

Whitman Collection copy 2: many leaves detached from spine.

Cited in:

Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, A 11.1.a, pages 209-215

OCLC:

1246128