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President Lincoln's funeral hymn.

Title
President Lincoln's funeral hymn.
Author
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Publication
[London] : Edward Arnold, 1900.

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TextRestricted use Rare Books 22-73Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Additional Authors
  • Levine, Leonard R., 1924-2000
  • Arnold, Edward, 1857-1942
  • Essex House Press, printer.
  • The Susan Jaffe Tane Collection of Walt Whitman.
Description
18 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
Uniform Title
When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd
Alternative Title
  • When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd
  • Walt Whitman's hymn on the death of Lincoln
Subjects
Genre/Form
Vellum printed books.
Note
  • Title from colophon.
  • "125 [i.e. 135] copies only, and all on vellum"--Page [20].
  • Frontispiece, tail-piece and initials are hand-colored.
  • "Here ends President Lincoln's funeral hymn, reprinted in love of the poet & admiration for the subject, among the great poems of the language, at the Essex House Press, under the care of C.R. Ashbee, who has drawn the frontispiece & capitals."--Colophon
  • "Published by Edward Arnold, 37 Bedford Street, Strand. 125 (altered in ms. to 135) copies only, & all on vellum. This copy is no. ..."--Publisher's colophon.
  • Gift of Susan Jaffe Tane, 2021.
Indexed In (note)
  • Myerson, J. Whitman
  • BAL
Provenance (note)
  • Copy in Rare Books 22-73: Pictorial ex-libris bookplate, on upper pastedown, for Alfred M. Kahn."
Binding (note)
  • Bound in vellum, with gilt stamped spine; in clamshell box.
Call Number
Rare Books 22-73
LCCN
02005640
OCLC
37594144
Author
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, author.
Title
President Lincoln's funeral hymn.
Publisher
[London] : Edward Arnold, 1900.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Indexed In:
Myerson, J. Whitman, p. 967
BAL 21658
Provenance
Copy in Rare Books 22-73: Pictorial ex-libris bookplate, on upper pastedown, for Alfred M. Kahn." NN
Binding
Bound in vellum, with gilt stamped spine; in clamshell box. NN
Local Note
Copy in Rare Books 22-73 is no. 124 of 135 copies.
Copy in Rare Books 22-73 owned formerly by Leonard R. Levine.
Added Author
Levine, Leonard R., 1924-2000, former owner.
Arnold, Edward, 1857-1942, publisher.
Essex House Press, printer.
The Susan Jaffe Tane Collection of Walt Whitman.
Spine Title
Walt Whitman's hymn on the death of Lincoln
Research Call Number
Rare Books 22-73
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