Leaves of grass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Contributor:

Patterson, Margaret M., former owner.

David McKay Company, publisher.

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

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--19th century.

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Patterson, Margaret M. (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)

Physical Description:

404 pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : David McKay ..., 1884.

Philadelphia : Sherman & Co., printers

Notes:

Author's name, Walt Whitman, appears in copyright statements on verso of title leaf, divisional title leaf of Sands at seventy, cover and spine.

Leaves of grass has publication date 1884 on title leaf and copyright date 1881 on verso of title leaf; Sands at seventy has copyright date 1888 on divisional title leaf (page [383]).

"Single leaf with Samuel Hollyer engraving of Whitman printed on verso, followed by protective tissue, is inserted before the title page ... or after p. 28 ..."--Myerson.

"Binding: Dark orange-yellow or slightly orange-yellow or medium olive-brown S cloth (diagonal fine-ribbed). Front cover: goldstamped: single-rule frame around facsimile signature at top; back cover: blank; spine: goldstamped ... Front and back flyleaves. Pale blue, pale gray, pale green, or pale pink endpapers; or light blue-vein patterned endpapers. Top edges trimmed; front and bottom edges rough trimmed or uncut. Top edges gilded."--Myerson.

Sands at seventy "is printed from the slightly altered duplicate set of plates for this section of November Boughs"--BAL.

Local Notes:

Whitman Collection copy has dated 19th-century manuscript inscription ("Margaret M. Patterson Christmas 1889. G.M.L.") on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, A2.7.k3, pages 109-111

BAL 21432

Other Format:

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

OCLC:

985687