Accession number
PML 6068
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Published
Brooklyn, N.Y., 1855.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
First edition, second issue.
Second state of copyright page and page iv ("cities and").
Author's name in copyright notice on verso of title page.
Portrait frontispiece printed on thin paper measuring 20 x 12.5 cm. (7 7/8 x 4 7/8"). pasted onto leaf of text paper, without embossing.
With 8 pages of advertisements and reviews at end (see Myerson, p. 19.
Second state of copyright page and page iv ("cities and").
Author's name in copyright notice on verso of title page.
Portrait frontispiece printed on thin paper measuring 20 x 12.5 cm. (7 7/8 x 4 7/8"). pasted onto leaf of text paper, without embossing.
With 8 pages of advertisements and reviews at end (see Myerson, p. 19.
Description
95, [1], [8] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Half tan morocco with marbled sides; title in gold on spine by Matthews. In dark brown solander case.
Classification
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