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Additional authors

1. Duyckinck Collection.

Description

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

Genre/Form

1. American poetry.

Call number

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

Note

1. First edition.

Author

1. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Title

1. Leaves of grass.

Imprint

1. Brooklyn, New York, 1855.

Local note

1. Copy 1: The portrait is printed on heavy plate paper.
2. Copy 1: The green cloth covers have gilt borders and the back is decorated with ornaments stamped in gilt.
3. Copy 1: Duyckinck Collection.
4. Copy 1: 85.
5. Copy 2: Author's name in copyright notice and on p. 29.
6. Copy 2: In original blind stamped green cloth, gilt, with marbles end papers; title in rustic letters, gilt, on both covers.
7. Copy 2: With autograph of Horace L. Traubel, 1892, on t.-p.
8. Copy 2: With two holograph letters from Mrs. Geo. G. Kimball to Horace L. Traubel laid in.
9. Copy 3: In original blind stamped green cloth, with buff end papers; title in rustic letters, gilt on front cover, blind on back cover.
10. Copy 3: With the four leaves of press notices preceding the frontispiece.
11. Copy 3: Portrait, on India paper, mounted.
12. Copy 3: With bookplate of H. Buxton Forman.
13. Copy 4: In original pink paper covers.
14. Copy 4: Whitman's own copy, with ms. note: 2d & fullest version of original edition 1855-'56.
15. Copy 4: With 8 booklets of manuscript, 52 leaves in all, fastened in, and typed copies of six of them laid in.
16. Copy 4: With autograph of Horace L. Traubel, 1892; and his ms. note about the finding of this copy.
17. 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.
18. 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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1. Duyckinck Collection.

LCCN

1. 03023679 //r95

Research call number

1. *KL (Whitman, W. Leaves of grass. 1855) Copy 1
2. *KLW+ (Whitman, W. Leaves of grass. 1855) Copy 2-4