Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 271

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WHITMAN, WALT. Leaves of Grass. Engraved frontispiece portrait by S.A. Schoff, calligraphic title. 8vo, publisher's deep-purplish cloth, bevelled edges, spine gilt- and blindstamped, covers blindstamped, spine tips rubbed slightly; front hinge partly split but still firm, yellow endpapers. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-61 [i.e. 1860]

Additional Details

Third Edition, second (or third) printing, BAL binding state C. The presumed third printing (though previously thought to be the second), and first unauthorized printing, of the third edition, without the printers' imprints on the copyright-page. The frontispiece in the third state, signed "S.A. Schoff" on a plain white background. Myerson, Walt Whitman, a Descriptive Bibliography, A2.3.c (calling it the third printing); BAL 21397 (calling it the second printing).