Research Catalog

Title

Leaves of grass.

Author

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Publication

Brooklyn, New York, 1855.

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Details

Additional Authors

Duyckinck Collection.

Description

xii, [13]-95 p. front. (port.); 29 cm.

Genre/Form

American poetry.

Note

• First edition.

Call Number

*KL (Whitman, W. Leaves of grass. 1855)

LCCN

03023679 //r95

OCLC

1053214

Author

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Title

Leaves of grass.

Imprint

Brooklyn, New York, 1855.

Local Note

Copy 1: The portrait is printed on heavy plate paper.

Copy 1: The green cloth covers have gilt borders and the back is decorated with ornaments stamped in gilt.

Copy 1: Duyckinck Collection.

Copy 1: 85.

Copy 2: Author's name in copyright notice and on p. 29.

Copy 2: In original blind stamped green cloth, gilt, with marbles end papers; title in rustic letters, gilt, on both covers.

Copy 2: With autograph of Horace L. Traubel, 1892, on t.-p.

Copy 2: With two holograph letters from Mrs. Geo. G. Kimball to Horace L. Traubel laid in.

Copy 3: In original blind stamped green cloth, with buff end papers; title in rustic letters, gilt on front cover, blind on back cover.

Copy 3: With the four leaves of press notices preceding the frontispiece.

Copy 3: Portrait, on India paper, mounted.

Copy 3: With bookplate of H. Buxton Forman.

Copy 4: In original pink paper covers.

Copy 4: Whitman's own copy, with ms. note: 2d & fullest version of original edition 1855-'56.

Copy 4: With 8 booklets of manuscript, 52 leaves in all, fastened in, and typed copies of six of them laid in.

Copy 4: With autograph of Horace L. Traubel, 1892; and his ms. note about the finding of this copy.

Copy 4: With holograph letter of Anne Montgomerie Traubel to Oscar Lion, dated May 12, 1928, describing the finding of this copy after Whitman's death.

Copy 4: Accompanied by holograph note by Anne Traubel, photograph of front cover, and reproduction of "Covers of Whitman's own copy..."

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Research Call Number

*KL (Whitman, W. Leaves of grass. 1855) Copy 1

*KLW+ (Whitman, W. Leaves of grass. 1855) Copy 2-4