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THIRD EDITION LEAVES OF GRASS. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892 Leaves of Grass. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-61.
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THIRD EDITION LEAVES OF GRASS.
WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892 Leaves of Grass. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-61.
8vo (192 x 120 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, on white paper, signed "S.A. Schoff" in the plate, foxing. Publisher's red-orange cloth, embossed in blind with heavy wavy vertical lines, upper cover titled in blind with design, title in gilt to spine, with embossed butterfly design and "Walt Whitman" beneath, grey endpapers, chipping to spine ends, closed tear to cloth at upper spine, old tape to gutters on portrait.
Provenance: Joseph W. Pike (business card, "Joseph W. Pike, M.D. - Homeopathist," affixed to rear endpapers); Ruford Franklin, Summit, N.J. (ink inscription); Pauline and Ozzy Fletcher (bookplate to paste-down); sold to our consignor.
THIRD EDITION OF LEAVES OF GRASS, second printing, binding B (same as 1st printing binding D), portrait signed S.A. Schoff on white background, sheets bulk 1 1/2". Published on the eve of the Civil War, the third edition is in many ways the best edition of Leaves of Grass, adding another 146 new poems (by far the largest addition of any edition), including the "Children of Adam" and "Calamus" clusters for the first time. In an 1857 notebook entry while putting together this edition, Whitman called the endeavor the "Great Construction of the New Bible," a New Bible that was "to inaugurate a new American religion, which cleared away the staid detritus of empty ritual" (Stacy, "Introduction" to Leaves of Grass, 1860, Iowa University, 2011). Myerson A2.3.b (binding B).
8vo (192 x 120 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait, on white paper, signed "S.A. Schoff" in the plate, foxing. Publisher's red-orange cloth, embossed in blind with heavy wavy vertical lines, upper cover titled in blind with design, title in gilt to spine, with embossed butterfly design and "Walt Whitman" beneath, grey endpapers, chipping to spine ends, closed tear to cloth at upper spine, old tape to gutters on portrait.
Provenance: Joseph W. Pike (business card, "Joseph W. Pike, M.D. - Homeopathist," affixed to rear endpapers); Ruford Franklin, Summit, N.J. (ink inscription); Pauline and Ozzy Fletcher (bookplate to paste-down); sold to our consignor.
THIRD EDITION OF LEAVES OF GRASS, second printing, binding B (same as 1st printing binding D), portrait signed S.A. Schoff on white background, sheets bulk 1 1/2". Published on the eve of the Civil War, the third edition is in many ways the best edition of Leaves of Grass, adding another 146 new poems (by far the largest addition of any edition), including the "Children of Adam" and "Calamus" clusters for the first time. In an 1857 notebook entry while putting together this edition, Whitman called the endeavor the "Great Construction of the New Bible," a New Bible that was "to inaugurate a new American religion, which cleared away the staid detritus of empty ritual" (Stacy, "Introduction" to Leaves of Grass, 1860, Iowa University, 2011). Myerson A2.3.b (binding B).