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Specimen days in America / by Walt Whitman.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 811W 1887 Whitman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
- Series:
- Scott library (London, England)
- The Scott library ; [22]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American Civil War (1861-1865).
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Personal narratives.
- Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Wallace, J. W. (James William), 1853-1926 (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [3], vi-x, [3], 14-312, [20] pages ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- Newly revised by the author, with fresh preface and additional note.
- Manufacture:
- Newcastle-on-Tyne : Printed by Walter Scott ...
- Place of Publication:
- London : Walter Scott ..., [not before 1892]
- Notes:
- Published in 1882-83 under title: Specimen days & Collect.
- Variant of Myerson's fourth issue (A 11.2.a4) with [20] pages of advertisements at end as in Myerson's first issue (A 11.2.a1).
- Place of printing and printer's name from colophon on page 312.
- Title leaf dated 1887; terminus post quem for publication date from Myerson. "The title of the Camelot Series was changed to the Scott Library in February 1892"--Myerson.
- Series statement from cover; volume number from Myerson.
- Myerson notes 3 binding styles ("A"-"C"). For a full description of each, see Myerson page 228.
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy has yellow paper slip with manuscript notes in pencil laid in.
- Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.
- Whitman Collection copy has autograph ("J.W Wallace. Anderton, near Chorley") in pencil on front free endpaper.
- Whitman Collection copy bound in Myerson binding style "A".
- Cited in:
- Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, A 11.2.a4 (variant), page 224-230
- OCLC:
- 1240102456
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