Accession number
PML 6084
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Published
[New York : Published by J. Winchester, 1842]
Credit line
Purchased with the Laurens Maynard collection.
Notes
"Original temperance novel."
Caption title.
"The New World. Park Benjamin, editor. J. Winchester, publisher. [one line of quotation] Extra series. Office 30 Ann-Street. Number 34. Vol. II--No. 10. New-York, November, 1842. Price 12 1/2 cents."--illustrated mast head.
Two bindings noted. One, with brown wrapper, has cover title, "Franklin Evans, or The inebriate. A tale of the times. By a popular American author." Pages [2-4] of wrapper include advertisements for Books for the people series, Dr. Rush's infallible health pills, and the New world and Every youth's gazette. The other, with pink or light orange-yellow wrapper, has cover title, "Copyright edition.The merchant's clerk, in New York; or The career of a young man from the country. By Walter Whitman, author of 'Death in the schoolroom,' etc. etc." Pages [2-4] of wrapper have advertisements for J. Winchester's publications, Froissart's Chronicles and Dr. Rush's infallible health pills, and Books for the people series.
Copyright 1842 by J. Winchester.
For a discussion of this popular work, written for the Washingtonian temperance movement, cf. Reynolds, David. Walt Whitman's America, 1996, p. 94-97, and Myerson, Joel. Walt Whitman, a descriptive bibliography, 1993, p. 2-7.
Text printed in two columns.
Publisher's advertisement for "new works in press," p. [32].
The original number of The New World. Copyright edition. Vol. II, no. 10. Extra series, no. 34. November 1842.
Title on cover of magazine: The Merchants clerk, in New York; or, The Career of a young man from the country. By Walter Whitman.
Laid with his: After all, not to create only ... [Washington, Pearson, printer, 1871?]. Olive cl. portf.
Caption title.
"The New World. Park Benjamin, editor. J. Winchester, publisher. [one line of quotation] Extra series. Office 30 Ann-Street. Number 34. Vol. II--No. 10. New-York, November, 1842. Price 12 1/2 cents."--illustrated mast head.
Two bindings noted. One, with brown wrapper, has cover title, "Franklin Evans, or The inebriate. A tale of the times. By a popular American author." Pages [2-4] of wrapper include advertisements for Books for the people series, Dr. Rush's infallible health pills, and the New world and Every youth's gazette. The other, with pink or light orange-yellow wrapper, has cover title, "Copyright edition.The merchant's clerk, in New York; or The career of a young man from the country. By Walter Whitman, author of 'Death in the schoolroom,' etc. etc." Pages [2-4] of wrapper have advertisements for J. Winchester's publications, Froissart's Chronicles and Dr. Rush's infallible health pills, and Books for the people series.
Copyright 1842 by J. Winchester.
For a discussion of this popular work, written for the Washingtonian temperance movement, cf. Reynolds, David. Walt Whitman's America, 1996, p. 94-97, and Myerson, Joel. Walt Whitman, a descriptive bibliography, 1993, p. 2-7.
Text printed in two columns.
Publisher's advertisement for "new works in press," p. [32].
The original number of The New World. Copyright edition. Vol. II, no. 10. Extra series, no. 34. November 1842.
Title on cover of magazine: The Merchants clerk, in New York; or, The Career of a young man from the country. By Walter Whitman.
Laid with his: After all, not to create only ... [Washington, Pearson, printer, 1871?]. Olive cl. portf.
Description
31 p. ; 29 cm.
Provenance
Laurens Maynard; Pierpont Morgan.
Classification
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