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Wreathe the living brows : an oration on Walt Whitman / by Col. Robert G. Ingersoll.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 811W ZmIn Whitman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Poets, American--19th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- American poetry--19th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917 (bookplate) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 34 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 8 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Progressive Publishing Company ..., 1890.
- Summary:
- A speech delivered by Colonel Ingersoll in the Horticultural Hall, New York, on October 21, 1890. Whitman attended in an easy wheeled chair on the platform.
- Notes:
- "Printed and published by G.W. Foote, at 28 Stonecutter Street, London, E.C."--Page 34.
- Publisher's advertisements on pages [35]-[36] and 1-8 (second count).
- Issued in printed paper wrappers with advertisement for "Freethought Publications ... R. Forder, 28 Stonecutter Street, London, E.C." on back wrapper.
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy has paper slip with manuscript notes in pencil laid in; paper slip with bookseller's typescript description laid in.
- Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.
- Whitman Collection copy has illustrated bookplate of H. Buxton Forman affixed to inside front wrapper.
- Whitman Collection copy: wrappers detached.
- Cited in:
- BAL 21439
- OCLC:
- 12429781
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