Leaves of grass / by Walt Whitman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Contributor:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882, writer of supplementary textual content.

Mosher, Thomas Bird, 1852-1923, publisher.

Gable, William F., 1856-1921, publisher.

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

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

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

Physical Description:

14 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, xii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 14-95 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : portrait, facsimiles ; 28 cm

Edition:

Facsimile edition of the 1855 text.

Place of Publication:

Portland, Maine : Thomas Bird Mosher, William Francis Gable, MDCCCCXX [1920]

Notes:

Original title leaf reads: Leaves of grass. Brooklyn, New York: 1855.

"This Facsimile Edition consists of 500 copies (SecondImpression) printed on Old Stratford white wove paper, medium octavo, in dark green cloth, stamped in gold to match the original binding."--Verso of half-title leaf.

Includes facsimile of a copy, in Whitman's handwriting, of Emerson's letter about Leaves of grass, and of the green paper wrappers of a copy of the first edition.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is from the Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Mosher Press imprints presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012.

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

Cited in:

Bishop, P.R. Mosher, 192.1

Hatch, B.L. Mosher, 684

Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, C 40.1.d, pages 448-449

Other Format:

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

OCLC:

911630