A LEAF OF GRASS FROM SHADY HILL. With a Review of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Written by Charles Eliot Norton in 1855; And, with A LEAF FROM THE FIRST PRINTING OF LEAVES OF GRASS, published in Brooklyn in 1855.

printed at the Harvard University Press and by the author, 1855-1928

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Details

Year of publication

1855-1928

Place of printing

Cambridge and Brooklyn

Author

[Whitman, Walt, Leaves Of Grass], Norton

Publishers

printed at the Harvard University Press and by the author

Edition

FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK WITH A LEAF FROM THE 1855 FIRST

Languages

English

First edition

Yes

Description

First edition of the book and a leaf from the first edition of Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS. With a frontispiece portrait of Norton and F. J. Child from a photograph taken circa 1854. 4to, publisher's original green cloth gilt lettered on the upper cover and spine. In the very scarce original plain paper dustjacket. 31 pp. + leaf from the first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS. A very fine copy, the text-block still largely unopened, the green cloth essentially pristine. The original 1855 leaf from the first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS well preserved.