WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Complete Writings . New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons for The Knickerbocker Press, 1902. 10 volumes, large 8 o (244 x 175 mm). WITH AN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LEAF in Vol. I (see below), frontispieces, plates (some in multiple states) and lithographed general title-pages. Plum morocco, gilt fillet panels, top edges gilt, other edges uncut (spines faded, rubbing to joints and spines). THE AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT EDITION, NUMBER 28 OF 32 SETS, WITH A PAGE OF MANUSCRIPT BY WHITMAN, in vol. 1 is a certification leaf signed by Jeanette Gilder. This posthumous edition was supervised by his literary executors, Horace Traubel, Richard M. Bucke and Thomas B. Harned. The executors also supplied an authorized biography of Whitman for the first volume, and Oscar Lovell Triggs contributed a bibliography and other critical apparatus for the last. The manuscript leaf included in this set is boldly titled "A Bunch of Boston Notes, from a late visit to the Hub." With variant title offered as: "How I get around at 60 and take notes--No.3. My late Visit to Boston." The page is comprised of three small slips pasted together to form a whole, the text reading: "Seems as if all the ways and means of American travel to-day had been settled not only with reference to speed and directness, but for the comfort of women and children, invalids, and old fellows like me. I went on by a through train that runs daily from Washington to the Yankee metropolis without change. You get in a sleeping car soon after dark in Philadelphia and after ruminating an hour or two, have your bed made up if you like and go to sleep in it and fly on through Jersey." At head, Whitman has written: "Send me a proof Saturday night & I will return so you will have. Take your choice of these headings."
WHITMAN, Walt (1819-1892). Complete Writings . New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons for The Knickerbocker Press, 1902. 10 volumes, large 8 o (244 x 175 mm). WITH AN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LEAF in Vol. I (see below), frontispieces, plates (some in multiple states) and lithographed general title-pages. Plum morocco, gilt fillet panels, top edges gilt, other edges uncut (spines faded, rubbing to joints and spines). THE AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT EDITION, NUMBER 28 OF 32 SETS, WITH A PAGE OF MANUSCRIPT BY WHITMAN, in vol. 1 is a certification leaf signed by Jeanette Gilder. This posthumous edition was supervised by his literary executors, Horace Traubel, Richard M. Bucke and Thomas B. Harned. The executors also supplied an authorized biography of Whitman for the first volume, and Oscar Lovell Triggs contributed a bibliography and other critical apparatus for the last. The manuscript leaf included in this set is boldly titled "A Bunch of Boston Notes, from a late visit to the Hub." With variant title offered as: "How I get around at 60 and take notes--No.3. My late Visit to Boston." The page is comprised of three small slips pasted together to form a whole, the text reading: "Seems as if all the ways and means of American travel to-day had been settled not only with reference to speed and directness, but for the comfort of women and children, invalids, and old fellows like me. I went on by a through train that runs daily from Washington to the Yankee metropolis without change. You get in a sleeping car soon after dark in Philadelphia and after ruminating an hour or two, have your bed made up if you like and go to sleep in it and fly on through Jersey." At head, Whitman has written: "Send me a proof Saturday night & I will return so you will have. Take your choice of these headings."
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