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WHITMAN, WALT.
The Complete Works.
10 volumes. Additional titles in
brown and green, lettered tissue-guards. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece portraits of
Whitman inVols. 1, 3-9, his birthplace inVol. 2, and his tomb inVol. 10, hand colored pho-
togravures, gold-illumined head- and tail-pieces, facsimile manuscript leaf, and original
watercolors by E.M.Williams. 8vo, contemporary full brown crushed morocco burnished
with yellow and green patterns, goldenrod cornerpieces, motif repeated on spine with
green leaves of grass onlays in compartments, top edges gilt, others uncut, light occasional
rubbing to joints and spine tips; full morocco doublures, green silk endpapers, occasional
dampstaining internally (most conspicuously to vol. II), front hinge starting in vol. I, water-
colors occasionally offset to text, some plates wrinkled.
NewYork and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons for The Knickerbocker Press, 1902
[3,500/5,000]
LIMITED ISSUE
,
THE GOLDEN ROD EDITION
,
COPY A OF
26
LETTERED SETS
.
An elaborate and
handsome production. Not in Myerson though it collates as one of the six identified Complete
Writings editions. Rare. No other copies traced on either ABPC or Rare Book Hub. Myerson B4.