Specimen days : & Collect / by Walt Whitman ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.

Contributor:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Wilson and McCormick, publisher.

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Diaries.

Whitman, Walt.

Poets, American--19th century--Diaries.

Poets, American.

United States--Civilization--19th century.

United States.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Civilization.

Genre:

Diaries.

Publishers' advertisements -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- 19th century.

Physical Description:

[2], iii-vi, 7-374, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : portrait ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Specimen days, and Collect

Place of Publication:

Glasgow : Wilson & McCormick ..., 1883.

Notes:

Second state. "The leaf containing the David McKay advertisement for Leaves of Grass has been canceled; the half title and the leaf containing the Wilson & McCormick advertisement for Leaves of Grass are tipped in."--Myerson.

"Single leaf of coated paper with sepia photograph of Whitman and butterfly printed on verso is inserted before the title page."--Myerson.

Reprint from the slightly altered plates of the Philadelphia, 1882-83 edition. See BAL.

Published in London under title: Specimen days in America.

Publisher's advertisement: Page [375].

Myerson records two styles of binding, "A" and "B". For a full description of each, see Myerson, page 221.

Local Notes:

Whitman Collection copy bound in Myerson's binding style "B" with light brown floral design endpapers. Housed in slip case.

Cited in:

Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, A 11.1.c, page 220-222

BAL 21423

Related Work:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Specimen days in America.

OCLC:

367422285