WHITMAN, WALT. Two printed sheets from publisher's galleys for Leaves of Grass (Philadelphia: McKay, 1891-92), both signed by Whitman ("Walt Whitman," and "Walt Whitman, 8 April '91"), one (the book's title-page), with a three-line inscription by Whitman, signed with initials. 2 pages, both on printer's proof paper, 249 x 122mm., one with small pasted piece at top (suppling a title and six lines of verse from another galley).
THE "REALLY LAST & COMPLETED ED'N" OF "LEAVES". The 1891-92 "Deathbed" edition of Leaves of Grass was considerably expanded, as the title-page indicates, by the addition of "Sands at Seventy...1st Annex," "Good-Bye My Fancy...2nd Annex," "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads," and "Portraits from Life." The proposed title-page of the collection is signed by the poet beneath the printed verse quotation and bears an additional note scrawled vertically along the right-hand edge by the poet: "WW & Dr. B --all well-These are the title and backing pp: of the forthcoming & really last & completed ed'n L of G. Love to you & all the friends. WW." The second leaf, unpaginated, contains the three poems "A Persian Lesson,: "The Commonplace," and "The Rounded Catalogue Divine" (no doubt a prophetic reference to the long-anticipated and much-touted Auerbach catalogue of dedication copies). (2)
WHITMAN, WALT. Two printed sheets from publisher's galleys for Leaves of Grass (Philadelphia: McKay, 1891-92), both signed by Whitman ("Walt Whitman," and "Walt Whitman, 8 April '91"), one (the book's title-page), with a three-line inscription by Whitman, signed with initials. 2 pages, both on printer's proof paper, 249 x 122mm., one with small pasted piece at top (suppling a title and six lines of verse from another galley).
THE "REALLY LAST & COMPLETED ED'N" OF "LEAVES". The 1891-92 "Deathbed" edition of Leaves of Grass was considerably expanded, as the title-page indicates, by the addition of "Sands at Seventy...1st Annex," "Good-Bye My Fancy...2nd Annex," "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads," and "Portraits from Life." The proposed title-page of the collection is signed by the poet beneath the printed verse quotation and bears an additional note scrawled vertically along the right-hand edge by the poet: "WW & Dr. B --all well-These are the title and backing pp: of the forthcoming & really last & completed ed'n L of G. Love to you & all the friends. WW." The second leaf, unpaginated, contains the three poems "A Persian Lesson,: "The Commonplace," and "The Rounded Catalogue Divine" (no doubt a prophetic reference to the long-anticipated and much-touted Auerbach catalogue of dedication copies). (2)
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