Criticism : an essay / by Walt Whitman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Contributor:

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

Saunders, Henry Scholey, 1864-1951, inscriber.

Carteret Book Club, publishers.

The Marion Press (Firm), active 1913, printers.

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

[17] pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark, New Jersey : The Carteret Book Club, 1923.

Summary:

Item is a re-typing of an original work published in 1913.

Notes:

Volume is unpaginated; mostly printed on recto side of sheet.

"Copyright 1913 by The Carteret Book Club"; page [6].

"The manuscript of this essay was found among Whitman's papers after his death. It is a rough draft in his own hand, and is believed never to have been printed until now"--page [5].

"The Marion Press certifies that only one hundred copies of "Criticism, an Essary by Walt Whitman," have been printed from type, on Italian handmade paper, in the month of May 1913. This copy is number [space for number]." Copy made by H.S.S. at Traubel's office, June 1915. --Colophon.

"Of this typing only three copies are made. April 1923. This is number [blank space for number]".

Local Notes:

Purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague. Copy contains inscription in pencil on front fly-leaf: "This copy bound for my friend Mrs. F.J. Sprague April 1923 Henry S. Saunders."

OCLC:

1076359749