Leaves of grass.
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Accession number:
PML 6068
Published:
Brooklyn, N.Y., 1855.
Description:
95, [1], [8] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Credit:
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes:
First edition, second issue.
Second state of copyright page and page iv ("cities and").
Author's name in copyright notice on verso of title page.
Portrait frontispiece printed on thin paper measuring 20 x 12.5 cm. (7 7/8 x 4 7/8"). pasted onto leaf of text paper, without embossing.
With 8 pages of advertisements and reviews at end (see Myerson, p. 19.
Binding:
Half tan morocco with marbled sides; title in gold on spine by Matthews. In dark brown solander case.
Provenance:
From the Theodore Irwin collection; Pierpont Morgan.
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