I'll miwrn. Mil': atljata, Sf^m f ark FROM THE BENNO LOEWY LIBRARY COLLECTED BY BENNO LOEWY 1854-1919 BEQUEATHED TO CORNELL UNIVERSITY Cornell University Library Z8971.5 .W72 + Catalogue of a collection of books lett 3 1924 029 628 074 oljn Overs Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029628074 25oofe^ %mtt^ anJ) a^anuiScriptjef of Walt Si^Jjitman Catalogue of A Collection of Books Letters and Manuscripts written by JValt Whitman In the Library of George' M JVilliamson Grand View on Hudson SCfte JHarton |)tre66 STaniaita ©tteenainrouffb jl5cto»Porfe 1903 Dodd Mead & Company Fifth-avenue and 'Thirtyfifth-street New -York Note N bringing together the following 1^57^1 f< y^fSjT books, letters, and manuscripts of >Sj^jJ 'JIIj^^ Walt Whitman, I have endeavored l^Qf i^tlllC to collect each edition from the first K«T//3 K\r«>M Brooklyn, 1855, to and including the Boston edition of 1897, and ending with a facsimile of the title- page of the Bible given to Thomas Donaldson. The 1855 paper cover edition contains the portrait in an early state of the plate printed on India paper, and not on the plate-paper found in the cloth-bound copies. The cover was pink, and has " Leaves of Grass " across the front in block letters (see facsimile). The cloth- bound copies of the 1855 edition are found with four preliminary leaves containing notices from the press. These were most likely remainders bound after the first issue had been published. Of the 1856 Brooklyn edition there must have been a smaller number issued, as it is quite scarce, and although I have never seen a copy with the Fowler & Wells title- page, I believe such exists, and hope to come across it some day. The 1860-61 edition was issued by Thayer & Eld- ridge of Boston, who failed during the War of 1861-65, and the plates were bought by a New York firm and 0Ott issued with the same title-page. The portrait in the Bos- ton edition (here reproduced) has a tinted background, and the book is thicker, being about i ^ inches, while the New York edition is only about i inch, in thickness. The binding of the Boston edition is heavily embossed. The pass Whitman used in going about his errands of mercy during that dark time is reproduced in facsimile. Drum-Taps poster, the original manuscript from which the reduced facsimile was made, was written before he added " When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd " to the later edition, after the death of President Lincoln. There were two issues of the Camden, 1876, edition. Two Rivulets should have the portrait " Photo'd from life, Sept., '72, Brooklyn, N. Y., by G. F. E. Pearsall, Fulton St.," signed "Walt Whitman born May 31 18 19". A number of remainders, some without portrait and others with portrait unsigned, are often found. The correct edition should have the portrait signed as above. The second issue of Leaves of Grass has a new title-page, " JVith Portraits and Intercalations'' (see facsimile). The manuscript of " To make a personal item " was written in pencil and sent to a New York journalist for use in one of the daily papers about 1870. The various manuscripts and corrected proof-sheets show Walt Whit- man's manner of work. The portrait used as a frontispiece in this volume is from an oil-painting by J. H. Littlefield, and is here re- produced for the first time by the kind permission of Mr. J. H. Johnston. G. M. W. Grand View on Hudson, November 15, 1902. Catalogue 25ooR3S %ttttt^ anJj Sl^anujefcrijJtst of WsAt i©l^itman 1 The New World. Extra Series. Number 34. New- York, November, 1842. Franklin Evans; Or The Inebriate. A Tale of The Times. By Walter Whitman. Pamphlet of 32 pp., uncut. Published as an extra to "The New World." Last page contains advertisement of "New Works in Press." Voices from the Press; A Collection Of Sketches, Essays, and Poems, By Practical Printers. Edited by James J. Brenton. New-York: Charles B. Norton, 71 Chambers-Street, (Irving House.) 1850. Pages 27-33 contain "The Tomb Blossoms," by Walter Whitman. ^ooh]6f %etttt0 and a^anujsfcript^ of Wa\t i©I)itman 3 Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: 1855. Pink paper wrapper, "Leaves of Grass " printed in block letters across wrapper, end wrapper blank. Portrait printed on India paper and pasted on plate paper. Portrait in early state of the plate. Cloth-bound copies have portrait on plate-paper, and title in gold across cover in rustic type. Pages xii (including title), 95, end blank. Copyright on verso of title: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855, by Walter Whitman, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Page of manuscript by Whitman, "Of Emerson," inserted. leaves of Grass. Facsimile of the lettering on the cover of number 3. 4 Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York, 1856. Green the cover cloth, 3^x61/^. Same portrait used as in i8 is a quotation from an Emerson letter : I55 edition. On "I Greet You at the Beginning of A Great Career R W Emerson " on Pages i 1 verso iv (including title), 384, i p. advertisement at of title, dated 1 8 56. end, Copyright eaves of vx r 0; s s Brooklyn, New York: 1855. Facsimile of the title-page of number 3. ^^iyt^<^ ^7-L^t^-^ ^ice cf me ^/ict^ai o/ ^ tJim4uiy, m'aAAin^tan, <^. <^., /V^^^^.^^^^ J ^7 tt^ %^*^ a_ ^^-V*^;;^^^^*— ;v - / i^^ ^^-♦w^ Facsimile of a page of manuscript inserted in number 3. /wr- orr, g^iifl ,(|im^Vii)i^i^;-|pi:inj;U gi^towi, \VjVf3riiiVG;TOQ«,"y''i5.' <0i, -4 o ■^ .,/;;•, ^^lr^Mk-^... ^ku^MJM-.-/liy \ OATH OP ALLEGIANCE. In availing myself of the benefits or^i. ra.s I do 3.ter,uly affirm tlxat fwill support, protect, and defend f}^}':^'^ tion and Government of tUd-^n.ted S atcs aga mst all one mics, AYhetber domestic orlforeijn; that I will bcai triK. Sth allegiance, and loyally, to the same, any ordmance esolatlon,°or la; of any SSai.' convent on or l?g'^l:;f "L% the contrary notwithstandi.g^.rthW If ^^.^i^'.^'^^i'^ao f^^^ fort, or information to its cnfe".«n.l t«\t^''' '^,^,Yor^ any with a full determination, pllSgc, and P^^P"^;- f^^j'o^^ = mental rcocvvation or OTasic'u T.-batsoeyer : So help me t/od. i . E>/es Walt Whitman's pass. Reproduction of the portrait with tinted background as found in the first issue of number 5. (3-^^lZyr^^€6aJeyf Facsimile of the title-page of number 5. <;;t^^^;^^^j^^^^^^ ^iW_ ^^^f;^ 'i^-^^-'^^--':^21:^-:__^ /l'^'^^ Drum TsPi J ^6 J (^ CirHjejeA-^ / & dP.C£rJ-iM£y^-n^\r-' ^^^^..^^ ^^^^^^^^zn-^e^ ,^ ^^^.^.^^ ^...^' Facsimile of an autograph letter. i page, 4.10. 2B»tioftiBf %tmt^ anti jai^anu^criptjS of Walt Wf^itman 7 Leaves Of Grass. New-York. 1867. Dark brown half-morocco, 4^^ x 71^ ; pp. iv (including title and table of contents), blank leaf unnumbered, 338. Later copies have added "Drum-Taps," pp. 72, blank leaf; "Sequel to Drum-Taps," pp. 24, blank leaf; "Songs Before Parting," pp. 36. Poems By Walt Whitman. Selected And Edited By William Michael Rossetti. Or si sa il nome, o per tristo o per buono, E si sa pure al mondo ch'io ci sono. Michelangelo. (Publisher's device.) London : John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly. 1868. Blue cloth, 41^x7^, uncut; half-title, portrait with facsimile of signature, title, verso blank, page quotations, page concerning portrait, dedication "To William Bell Scott," two leaves contents, prefatory no- tice, preface to "Leaves of Grass," etc., pp. xii, 403. ^ i/ / // - 7-1 - A-' . (" c-/ ■ I'i *l.-U^^|.l ^3. A^c^-z/'few ^' y -'■fv^ 1- v::^ .,■ ^'Z/ )-^/-''^-^'^t'-'-/<-\ ' '«^ J, ■I- S-.^ . .1 » C.-SfA'tW ^.,/: > / /!? /-i-i.^^4f ^ ? ^^^i^-^^ — — — - — -^-- — '■ • ^--^ .^/? ,^. ^ '^'^- J..H^yi ^H-f^-iV Ji,iar\'^. kl -d" j: ■') t^A^: i--tiA- Facsimile of manuscript "To make a personal item." I page, 4to. 25ooM %tmt^ anil ^amgaipt^ of Walt ilB>|jitman 9 Poems By Walt Whitman. Selected And Edited By William Michael Rossetti. Manuscript of dedication, prefatory notice, and proof-sheets corrected by W. M. Rossetti. Half-morocco. lo Leaves of Grass. Washington, D. C. 1871. See Advertisement at end of this Volume. Green paper wrapper, uncut ; pp. vi (including title, verso copyright notice dated 1870, " Electrotyped by Smith & McDougal, 82 Beekman Street, New York"), 384. Postal card inclosed signed "WW". Memoranda. Democratic Vistas. Washington, D. C. 1871. ■ See Advertisement at end of this Volume. Green paper wrapper, uncut, 4^ x 8 1-16; pp. 84 (including title, copyright notice on verso of title, same as "Leaves of Grass" of 187 1). Advertisement on back of cover. ' Presentation copy to " M. B. Brady, from his friend, Walt Whitman." LEAVES of GRASS Washington J D. C. 1871. %W See Advertisement at end of this Volume. Facsimile of title-page of number 10. 23ooM %tttm anti Si9anu^cri}>t$f of Walt Wt^itmm 12 Leaves of Grass. Passage to India. Gliding o'er all, through all. Through Nature, Time, and Space, As a Ship on the waters advancing. The Voyage of the Soul — not Life alone. Death — many Deaths, I sing. Washington, D. C. 1871. See Advertisement at end of this Volume. Green paper wrapper, uncut, 5x8; pp. iv, 1 zo. Copyright and elec- trotype notices same as "Leaves of Grass" of same date. Advertise- ment on back of cover. •3 Leaves of Grass. Washington, D. C. 1872. Green cloth, uncut, 4^x7^^; pp. vi, 384, 120. Copyright same as 1 87 1 edition. Printed from the plates of the 187 1 edition of " Leaves of Grass " and "Passage to India." 14 [Proofs — Office American Institute, New York.] After all, Not to Create only. [Recited by Walt Whitman, on invitation of Directors American Institute, on Open- ing of their 40th Annual Exhibition, New York, noon, September 7, 1871.] Pearson, Printer, Washington 1 1 pp. quarto. IPR OOFS— Office American Institute, New York.] After all, Not to Create only. lUecUed by Walt Whitman, on.mvUaiion of Directors American Institute, on Open- ing of their 40/A Annual Exhibition, New York, noon, September 7, 1871.] A FTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, To give it our own identity, average, limitless, free ; To fill the gross, the torpid bulk with vital religious fire; Not to repel or destroy, so much as accept, fuse, rehabilitate ; To obey, as well as command — to follow, more than to lead ; These also are the lessons of our New World ; — While how little the New, after all — how much the Old, Old World ! Long, long, long, has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round. Come, Muse, migrate from Greece and Ionia ; Cross out, please those immensely overpaid accounts, That matter of Troy, and Achilles' wrath, and Eneas', Odysseus' wanderings ; Placard ''Removed'' and " Tb LeV on the rocks of your snowy Parnassus ; Repeat at Jerusalem — place the notice high on Jaffa's gate, and on Mount Moriah; The same on the walls of your Gothic European Cathedrals, and German, French and Spanish Castles; For know a better, fresher, busier sphere — a wide, untried do main awaits, demands you. Facsimile of first page of number 14. '-^^-^izS" '-^^->.4^ Facsimile of first page of number 16. 25oofei6f %emt^ anb Si^anu^cript^ of Wait IBljitman •5 After All, Not To Create Only. Recited by Walt Whitman on Invitation of Managers American Institute, on Opening their 40th Annual Exhibition, New York, noon, September 7, 1871. (Publishers' device.) Boston : Roberts Brothers. 1871. Brown cloth; half-title, title, pp. vii, 24, blank leaf, leaf "From the Washington Chronicle, Sept. 11," verso "American Institute, Sept. nth, 1871." 16 Manuscript. As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. Pages XX. 25ooftjf %ttttt^ anti St^anusScriptiS of Walt i©|jitman Leaves of Grass. As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. And Other Poems. Washington, D. C. 1872. Green cloth, uncut ; title, page contents, 6 pp. preface, dated "Wash- ington, D. C, May 31, 1872," pp. X ; "One Song, America, Before I Go," one leaf; "Souvenirs of Democracy," facsimile signature, one leaf; pp. 14; " Virginia— The West," " By Broad Potomac's Shore," one leaf, unnumbered ; blank leaf, 8 pp. advertisements. Presentation copy "From Walt Whitman, 1887." Memoranda During the War. By Wah Whitman. Author's Publication. Camden, New Jersey. 1875-76. Maroon cloth, stamped in gold on cover ; leaf " Remembrance Copy " and Personal Note, portrait same as in first edition, wood-cut, title, verso copyright notice, pp. 68 (including title-page, advertisement of "Walt Whitman's Works, Two Volumes," etc.) Presentation copy. TO FVom /^y^-^^^J? ^^^^^tC^^ PERSONAL-NOTE. Dear Friend : I do not hesitate to briefly precede your Kemembrance- Copy with some biographical facts of myself, I know you will like to have— also, to bind in, for your eye andtbouglit, the little Portraits that follow*. I was bora May 31, 1819, in mv father's farm-house, at West Hills, L. I., New York State. My parents' folks mostly farmers and sailors — on my father's side, of English— on my mother's, (Van Velsor's,) froin Hollandic immigration. We moved to Brooklyn while I was still a little one in frocks— and there in B. I grew up out of the frocks — then, as child and boy, went to the public schools — then to work in a priTiting office. f When only sixteen or seventeen years old, and for two years afterward, 1 went to teaching country schools down in Queens and Sufl'olk counties. Long Island, and "boarded round." Then, returning to New, York, worked as printer and writer, (with an occa.sional shy at ■•poetry.") * The picture in shirt-.slecves w^ daguerrectyped from life, one hot day in Augu.' <^o»v^ ^^^,,^i^E-*^ ^ ^;«-*— ^i^ --^V^^^^^^^^tS: ^^ ^ ^..^^^^^.^'i..£^ — X Facsimile of first page of autograph letter referring to number 19. 2 pages, 4to. (^-(^^4^ f^ ^^L^.^^ ":^^^ r^' i^^v^^ iiX^ e^rj,^ ^^, ryt.^2.<5ttf^ zC /A-ty-f^^ ^^vi-^^' ^<-T^-<4_ <3^!>^tx^ (2^^ Facsimile of a page of manuscript. 25oofeiS %etttt^ ana a^anuiBfcrijJtjS of Walt IBfjitman 23 [From the North American Review.] Poetry to-day in America — Shakspere — the Future. Corrected proof-sheets of above article; pp. 195-zio North American Review for February, 1881. 24 Leaves of Grass (Nine-line poem, signed "Walt Whitman" in autograph.) Author's Edition Camden, New Jersey 1882 Green cloth, pp. 382. Copyright notice dated 1 88 1. Printed from the suppressed plates of Boston edition. Leaves of Grass (Device.) Philadelphia. David McKay, No. 23 South Ninth Street. 1884. Original orange cloth, uncut ; pp. 404. Copyright notice dated 1881 ; "Sherman & Co., Printers, Philadelphia." Signature of Walt Whitman written across title. ^'^■^i-. "' vHij^jgi; [From the Nobth Amshican Keview.] f"" 'sv "^^ ^:^^^^.._P^^^^ -X46, 14: ■•'. :>/ -^ ^yf — ' Strange as it may see~a, the topmost proof of a ra«e is its own "bom poetiy. The presence of that, or the absence, each tells its story. As the HoTyering rose or ]jly, as the ripened Ib-uit to a tree, the apple or the peach, no matter ho-9? fhie the trunk, or copious or rich the branches and f oliagp, here iv aits &hie qua non at last. The stamp of entire and fiui shed greatness to any nation, to the American Eepublic among the re3t,:'xttust be stei-nly -with- held till it has es|M!^i&^44*3tt^-«ii^ put what it stands for in the blossom of oiigbial, fii-st-class poems. ;^' itnitations will.do.' ^ ' ' And thotvah no esthetih worthy the present condition or ftiWe certainties; «>f' the l>iew World seems to have biaea ei^en outlined in men's mind?, ' opv"fcj^-t«?en--gen^al3.y'"r.3H«df£cirpt>i» thought needed, I am cleat iLst ,%ritil the United States lia%'e just such definite and native^e:pi csffe-i-s in the highest ai-tistic fields, their mere political, geogr%pb;eai. 'ivealth-formiag, and even iatellectual eminence, however asfejiaiiSii^g and predominant, will constitute (as I have before likei^idi.;^) a more and more expanded and well-appointed, body, anS^-^srhaps brain, mth little or no sord. Sugar-coat the grim, truth fjs we may, and ward "off with outward plausible words, (h^un'Jii^'»ypjp.i)ations, to themeutal inward per- ception of the Lui.^'^^T'i'faak is plain. '-''aM)arren void exists. For the meanings fesf-iJ'i^^t'ti'sr piurposes of these Stat(3S are not , the constructing .J^s,'j,-'^%< w-jrlu of j)ohtics merely, and physical comforts for the miiH'on, but oven more rdeterminedly, in range with science and the modem, of a,3new"^' world of democratic sociology and imagmatiye -literature. If i^^lgtter were not earried-out aM estabfishedvfco&nn, their only ptiriaaaent tie and T-,r,1rt +>io fir-of-nnniArl "cirrinld rxiikf little avail. ■ hold, the th-st-naaned woal4/b%#l- ^ttle avail ^ ^f) hH<.%. /^ oc^-^i '"in 1850, Emerson Said earaestl^jX),itiss Bretner, in response .to her praises : "No, yoi^pust not be too goJ;^aturpd. We hav^j not^yet any poetry- ?i^j5r, which can tie said^ito represent the i^ is not yet come, Wtien he 6oj^ea, h&'i 4f cjir world TBiij'poet of Ameriea fcinf5j«;;«jit9 differently." Ls !.,■ ■ '.^^ ..^^.-.l^i^lgfc.. i i«v«iK2ife3 Facsimile of first page iif number 23. /llv'^' ^trnk^ %tttn0 anti a^anuiScciptiS of Wait l©I)itman — Leaves of Grass (Publisher's device.) Philadelphia. David McKay, No. 23 South Ninth Street. 1884. Green doth ; pp. 382. "Sherman & Co., Printers, Philadelphia." Printed from the plates of the suppressed Boston edition of 1881. 27 Specimen Days & Collect By Walt Whitman, Author of "Leaves of Grass." Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co., No. 23 South Ninth Street. 1882-83. Paper cover, uncut; pp. 376, one leaf advertisement at end. Later copies have the imprint of David McKay. Walt Whitman's copy. Inserted are portraits of his father and mother, and on pp. 11 and 20 the words "my dearest mother," "my dear father," are underlined. Presentation copy "from Walt Whitman Camden New Jersey March 14 1887". By WALT WHITMAN, Author of " Leaves of Grass." PHILADELPHIA: REES WELSH & CO., No. 23 South Ninth Street. i882-'83. Facsimile of title-page of number 27. -V .rf,- ''^i. >'-N w M '"'V, J 0) +-< P S ^ a ?; -» -2 OS s ■5 H m O be 0) a.' -^ ■V bjj ■4-' ■a -u J^ .1i eg 00 d ^ 3 cS F 3 ^ o s '■"■ .,-C1 '-2 _T^ * 13 S 9J u ■*-' _>> " -C '5,, ■.1^ ^ s ^-^ x' /£ 1 > o ill 'cS 3 4> To 3 ^ ^**4 TJ ;™' r^ 0.1 ■3 3 a> > 2 s S3 a. ex ^* ^ii "SL bO JO to a OS c2 H 5 s i 3 B 3r 2 a c IS c p ^ --f^ -<^ ^ ik \r\ ^ ^ i i6 i >~^ NO 25oofe36f %ttttv^ antJ Sr^anuitfcriptjef of ilB>alt Jl^!)itman 28 November O O Boughs By Walt Whitman Philadelphia David McKay, 23 South Ninth Street 1888 Maroon flexible cloth, also published in green cloth, uncut; pp. 140, page advertisement. Presentation copy. Manuscript and corrected proof-sheets inclosed. 29 November Boughs. Proof-sheets corrected by Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads. May 31, 1889. To-day, finishing my 70th year, the fancy comes for celebrating it by a special, complete, final utterance, in one handy volume, of L. of G., with their Annex, and Backvi^ard Glance ^ — and for stamping and sprinkling all with portraits and facial photos, such as they actually were, taken from life, different stages. Doubtless, anyhow, the volume is more a person than a book. And for testimony to all, (and good measure,) I here with pen and ink append my name : Walt Whitman Portraits from Life. Autograph. Special Ed'n. (300 copies only printed — ^5 each.) Black morocco ; pp. 404. Pocketbook edition, with inside pocket. "A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads," pp. 18, also to be found bound in same manner, but without flap and inside pocket. 25oohiS %ttttt^ anil a^anu^cript^ of Walt WWman Complete (Portrait) Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman 1855 . . . 1888 Authenticated & Personal Book (handled by W. W.) . . . Portraits from Life . . . Autograph. Large 8vo, half-cloth, uncut. "Leaves of Grass," pp. 382, title and note at beginning, not numbered, two leaves; "Specimen Days," half- title, pp. 374; "November Boughs," portrait, half-title, pp. 140, one leaf note at end. Portraits face pp. 29 and 206. 32 Good-Bye My Fancy 2d Annex to Leaves of Grass Philadelphia David McKay, Publisher 23 South Ninth Street 1891 Green cloth, uncut, gilt top ; pp. 66. Portrait faces title. yc< O-: r < c^ ■-^.^. V? y ■.i>^- \ # i' / t J •«,/-♦ ',-•- — ^y-'jr'-fi^r^ .X ;'^/.}^i..- ii^.?, 5^/?./" j:^- i (^ / — y , ^ '