Lot Essay
This "Birthday Edition" is the eighth separate edition issued in celebration of Whitman's 70th birthday on 31 May 1889.
Details
WALT WHITMAN (1819-92)
Leaves of Grass. With Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros., 1889, 12°, "Birthday Edition" limited to 300 copies signed by the poet, frontispiece portrait and 5 other inserted portraits (some spotting, several leaves loose), original limp morocco wallet (worn).
Leaves of Grass. With Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, Philadelphia: Ferguson Bros., 1889, 12°, "Birthday Edition" limited to 300 copies signed by the poet, frontispiece portrait and 5 other inserted portraits (some spotting, several leaves loose), original limp morocco wallet (worn).