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Whitman : a study / by John Burroughs.
LIBRA PS3238 .B8 1896b copy 2
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LIBRA PS3238 .B8 1896b
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 811W YBur.2 Whitman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burroughs, John, 1837-1921, author.
- Series:
- Burroughs, John, 1837-1921. Writings of John Burroughs ; v. 10.
- The writings of John Burroughs ; [v. 10]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Wallace, J. W. (James William), 1853-1926 (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Traubel, Anne Montgomerie, 1864-1954 (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919 (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 268 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 illustration, 1 portrait ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- Cambridge : The Riverside Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company ..., 1896.
- Notes:
- Illustration (etching of Whitman's birthplace) on series t.p.
- "Riverside edition"--Series title page.
- Also issued with an additional series t.p., with vol. number after title and with "this edition is limited to one thousand sets" on verso of leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.
- Whitman Collection copy has manuscript inscription ("Sent to JW Wallace by Anne & Horace L Traubel [...] December 1896 Camden New Jersey") on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, D 30, page 508
- Other Format:
- Online version: Burroughs, John, 1837-1921. Whitman.
- OCLC:
- 56890062
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