Accession number
PML 6071
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Published
Boston : Thayer and Eldridge, year 85 of the States (1860-61) [i.e. 1860] ([Boston] : George C. Rand & Avery)
Credit line
Purchased with the Laurens Maynard collection.
Notes
Third edition, First (American) issue, see Myerson
Author's name, Walt Whitman, appears in copyright statement on t.p. verso.
The publishers of this ed. failed and the plates were sold to an unscrupulous publisher who printed from them for years using the original imprint on t.p.
Myerson describes 2 authorized printings, with 3 states of frontispiece and 5 states of binding. For unauthorized printings, cf. LC record 45-46794.
Bookshop label: Brentano's, New York.
A typed copy of a letter to Mrs. Abby Price in MA 918, removed and laid in MA 918.
Author's name, Walt Whitman, appears in copyright statement on t.p. verso.
The publishers of this ed. failed and the plates were sold to an unscrupulous publisher who printed from them for years using the original imprint on t.p.
Myerson describes 2 authorized printings, with 3 states of frontispiece and 5 states of binding. For unauthorized printings, cf. LC record 45-46794.
Bookshop label: Brentano's, New York.
A typed copy of a letter to Mrs. Abby Price in MA 918, removed and laid in MA 918.
Description
iv, 456 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 port. ; 20 cm.
Provenance
Inscription on front flyleaf: "Laurens Maynard"; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Binding C: dark reddish orange coarseTR cloth (vertical wavy-grain); beveled edges; upper cover stamped in blind; spine stamped in gilt. Grey endpapers.
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