Accession number
PML 76773
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Published
Brooklyn, New York : [Walt Whitman], 1855 ([Brooklyn, New York : Rome Brothers])
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, 1980.
Notes
BAL and Myerson describe at least two issues, and various states of the copyright page, p. iv, frontispiece, and binding.
First ed., first issue.
Author's name, Walter Whitman, appears in copyright statement on t.p. verso.
Printed label on t.p.: "London: William Horsell, 492, Oxford-street." in one line (unlike image, Myerson, p. 21, measures 6 x 78 mm.
Copyright page, state 2; p. iv, state 2 reads "cities and"; portrait printed on plate paper with slightly-embossed frame.
According to Myerson, the work was printed by Andrew and James Rome, Brooklyn.
First ed., first issue.
Author's name, Walter Whitman, appears in copyright statement on t.p. verso.
Printed label on t.p.: "London: William Horsell, 492, Oxford-street." in one line (unlike image, Myerson, p. 21, measures 6 x 78 mm.
Copyright page, state 2; p. iv, state 2 reads "cities and"; portrait printed on plate paper with slightly-embossed frame.
According to Myerson, the work was printed by Andrew and James Rome, Brooklyn.
Description
95, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 port. ; 29 cm
Provenance
Undecipherable ink inscription on front free endpaper dated 1855; bookplates of Alfred M. Kahn, E. Hubert Litchfield (armorial), and E.H.; Mrs. Charles W. Englehard.
Binding
Binding A: Dark olive-green AR cloth (coarse ribbed-morocco style); no flyleaves. Upper and lower covers with triple-rule gilt frame surrounding 6 blind-stamped leaf designs, rustic letters printed in gold, nonpariel marbled enpapers; all edges trimmed and gilt.
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