WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass . Camden, 1876. 8 o. Intercalations slips on pp. vi, 207, 247, 359, 369. 1 page advertisements at end. 2 wood engraved portraits of Whitman. Original light-brown half calf, orange ribbed cloth, spine gilt, edges gilt, green coated embossed endpapers, blue silk ribbon marker, binder's ticket of James Arnold (spine faded, morocco lettering-piece lacking, some staining); cloth folding case. Provenance : Alfred Webb (bookplate and inscription). Fifth edition, second printing, second issue, with cancel title-page SIGNED BY WHITMAN. PRESENTATION COPY, ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY WHITMAN on the front free endpaper: "Alfred Webb, from his friend, the author." Webb, of Dublin, Ireland, is listed in Whitman's sales notebook on March 11, 1876, having purchased Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets for $10 ( Daybooks and Notebooks , ed. W. White p.7). Although Whitman intended to publish 1,000 copies of this issue, only 100 copies were completed. The intercalations were intended to present the book "in its permanent form" ( Correspondence , ed. E.H. Miller, vol II, p.325). BAL 21410; Meyerson A2.5.b2 (Binding A).
WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass . Camden, 1876. 8 o. Intercalations slips on pp. vi, 207, 247, 359, 369. 1 page advertisements at end. 2 wood engraved portraits of Whitman. Original light-brown half calf, orange ribbed cloth, spine gilt, edges gilt, green coated embossed endpapers, blue silk ribbon marker, binder's ticket of James Arnold (spine faded, morocco lettering-piece lacking, some staining); cloth folding case. Provenance : Alfred Webb (bookplate and inscription). Fifth edition, second printing, second issue, with cancel title-page SIGNED BY WHITMAN. PRESENTATION COPY, ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY WHITMAN on the front free endpaper: "Alfred Webb, from his friend, the author." Webb, of Dublin, Ireland, is listed in Whitman's sales notebook on March 11, 1876, having purchased Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets for $10 ( Daybooks and Notebooks , ed. W. White p.7). Although Whitman intended to publish 1,000 copies of this issue, only 100 copies were completed. The intercalations were intended to present the book "in its permanent form" ( Correspondence , ed. E.H. Miller, vol II, p.325). BAL 21410; Meyerson A2.5.b2 (Binding A).
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