![]() ![]() Shown here is the famous engraving by Samuel Hollyer, featuring a cocky-looking Whitman in an open-necked shirt, his hand resting provocatively on his hip, appears as a frontispiece, within an embossed frame, followed by ten double-columned pages of bewildering prose, conjuring a future for American democracy under the sign of a virile democracy. 10, the “I” is absent, a typographical error corrected in subsequent printings. Lilly (who purchased it from Goodspeed’s bookstore in Boston) and a pasted-in label from booksellers Fowler, Wells & Co., Phrenological Publishers (“Professional Examinations available to visitors day and evening”), who offered Whitman's book for sale. ![]() The Lilly copy features the bookplates of previous owners Albert Thorndike and J.K. ![]() Shown here are the frontispiece and title page of the priceless first edition of Leaves of Grass, in a presumed first state of binding, second state of copyright page (Myerson, p. ![]()
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