November boughs / by Walt Whitman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Contributor:

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

Gledsdale, John Wilson, 1849-1926, bookseller.

Wallace, J. W. (James William), 1853-1926, former owner.

Alexander Gardner (Publisher), publisher.

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Prose works. Selections

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

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

Gledsdale, John Wilson, 1849-1926 (stamp) (Whitman Collection copy)

Wallace, J. W. (James William), 1853-1926 (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy)

Physical Description:

140 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Paisley ; and ... London : Alexander Gardner ..., 1889.

Notes:

Sheets of the Philadelphia : D. McKay, 1888 edition, with a cancel title leaf. See Myerson.

"Inserted leaf of coated paper, with photograph of Whitman in his seventieth year, printed on verso, followed by protective tissue, is positioned before the title page."--Myerson.

"Binding: Very deep red V cloth (smooth); beveled edges. Front cover: goldstamped '[handlettered] November [concentric circle design] | [concentric circle design] [handlettered] Boughs | [facsimile signature]'; back cover: blank; spine: goldstamped from bottom to top '[triple horizontal rules] | [ornate letters] NOVEMBER BOUGHS' [measuring 4 9/16"] | [triple horizontal rules]'. White endpapers or endpapers coated black on one side. All edges trimmed. Top edges gilded."--Myerson.

Includes essays, reviews and some poetical works, Whitman's November Boughs was first published in 1888. Most famously, the work contains a fervent essay about the Shakespeare authorship question, of which Whitman was a great believer. Writing about Shakespeare's histories in particular, the poet argues that someone other than Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon penned the works.

Local Notes:

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

Whitman Collection copy has embossed stamp ("GLEDSDALE, BOOKSELLER, STATIONER 13, DEANSGATE, BOLTON") on verso of front free endpaper.

Whitman Collection copy has autograph ("J.W. Wallace 14 Eagle St. Haulgh Bolton 2nd Jany/89.") on verso of front free endpaper.

Whitman Collection copy has laid in pink paper card with paper slip bookseller's printed description of this copy affixed.

Whitman Collection copy: endpapers coated black on one side.

Whitman Collection copy: title leaf detached.

Cited in:

Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, A 12.1.a2, pages 239-240

BAL 21430

OCLC:

1211980