Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Contributor:

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

Thomas Y. Crowell Company, publisher.

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Leaves of grass. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--19th century.

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

iv, 60 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [not after 1921]

Notes:

Selections from Leaves of grass.

Terminus ante quem for publication date from inscription dated 1921 recorded by Myerson.

Title in green with red capitals and punctuation within green and red decorative border.

Local Notes:

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

Whitman Collection copy bound in publisher's full green cloth; left board has title and author's surname stamped in gold within gold-stamped floriate border on blind-stamped and ruled rectangular panel.

Cited in:

Myerson, J. Walt Whitman, C171, page 488

OCLC:

20589334