Accession number
PML 6069
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Published
Brooklyn, N.Y., 1855.
Credit line
Purchased with the Laurens Maynard collection.
Notes
First edition.
Second state of copyright and p. iv ("cities and").
First copy issued, presented by Whitman to S. Hollyer who engraved the portrait.
Two letters giving facts of presentation, previously laid in, and a printed advertisement for Hollyer's gallery, transferred to LHMA dept. as MA 5111.
Plate signed by Hollyer.
Second state of copyright and p. iv ("cities and").
First copy issued, presented by Whitman to S. Hollyer who engraved the portrait.
Two letters giving facts of presentation, previously laid in, and a printed advertisement for Hollyer's gallery, transferred to LHMA dept. as MA 5111.
Plate signed by Hollyer.
Description
95, [1] p. 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Provenance
Laurens Maynard; Pierpont Morgan.
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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