![Engraved portrait of Walt Whitman. [No place: no publisher, ca. 1890].](https://exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/whitman/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2019/10/Engraved-portrait-of-Walt-Whitman.-No-place-no-publisher-ca.-1890.-e1579105654545.jpg "Engraved portrait of Walt Whitman. [No place: no publisher, ca. 1890].")
Engraved portrait of Walt Whitman. [No place: no publisher, ca. 1890].
This engraving is a proof copy of the iconic portrait of Whitman that was used as the frontispiece to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. The proof was produced for a later edition of Leaves of Grass. The engraving was done by Samuel Hollyer (1826-1919) from a Gabriel Harrison daguerreotype.
Leaves of Grass: With Sands at Seventy, and a Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads. Camden: Walt Witman, 1889.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: With Sands at Seventy, and a Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads. Camden: Walt Whitman, 1889.
This edition of Leaves of Grass was published to commemorate Whitman’s 70th birthday. It was issued in an edition of 300 copies, all signed by the author on the title page. In addition to the frontispiece portrait of Whitman holding a cardboard butterfly, the book includes six additional portraits of him.
This copy contains a lengthy presentation inscription from Horace Traubel, as well as a photograph of Traubel which he has also inscribed.
This 1889 printing is sometimes referred to as the “pocket book edition” because of its size and its flexible, tongue and flap binding.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: With Sands at Seventy, and a Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads. Camden: Walt Whitman, 1889.
This edition of Leaves of Grass was published in commemoration of Whitman’s 70th birthday. It was issued in a edition of 300 copies, all signed by the author on the title page.
Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy -- 1st Annex, Good-Bye My Fancy -- 2d Annex, a Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891-92.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy -- 1st Annex, Good-Bye My Fancy -- 2d Annex, a Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891-92.
Towards the end of 1891, Whitman prepared a final edition of Leaves of Grass. Published in 1892, this version is referred to as the "deathbed edition." In January 1892, two months before Whitman's death, the following announcement appeared in the New York Herald: "Walt Whitman wishes respectfully to notify the public that the book Leaves of Grass, which he has been working on at great intervals and partially issued for the past thirty-five or forty years, is now completed, so to call it, and he would like this new 1892 edition to absolutely supersede all previous ones. Faulty as it is, he decides it is by far his special and entire self-chosen poetic utterance."
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: Including a Fac-Simile Autobiography, Variorum Readings of the Poems, and a Department of Gathered Leaves. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1900.
David McKay was the publisher with whom Whitman worked in the final years of his life This edition of Leaves of Grass, published 8 years after Whitman's death, was somewhat controversial in that it doesn't use the text of the 1891 edition, which Whitman preferred, and McKay also reorganized the sections in ways that didn't reflect Whitman's preferences.
Whitman, Walt. Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855-1888: Authenticated & Personal Book (handled by W.W.), Portraits from Life, Autograph. [Camden: W. Whitman, 1888].
This collection is the definitive edition of Whitman's work issued in his lifetime, published just three years before his death. The edition was limited to 600 copies, all signed by Whitman on the title page of the section comprising Leaves of Grass.
![Leaves of Grass: Comprising All the Poems Written by Walt Whitman: Following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-‘2. [New York]: Random House, 1930.](https://exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/whitman/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2019/10/Leaves-of-Grass-Comprising-All-the-Poems-Written-by-Walt-Whitman-e1579105679347.jpg "Leaves of Grass: Comprising All the Poems Written by Walt Whitman: Following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-‘2. [New York]: Random House, 1930.")
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: Comprising All the Poems Written by Walt Whitman: Following the Arrangement of the Edition of 1891-'2. [New York]: Random House, 1930.
Printed in an edition limited to 400 copies at the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco with 37 woodcuts by Valenti Angelo, Leaves of Grass is one of the masterpieces of 20th century fine printing.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2014.
For the one-hundredth publication of the Arion Press, Andrew Hoyem produced this limited edition of the text used in the original 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Hoyem chose this text in part as a tribute to his predecessors Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, whose masterpiece was their 1930 fine press edition of Leaves of Grass.
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Norwalk, Conn: Easton Press, 1977.
This special edition of Leaves of Grass features illustrations by Rockwell Kent which were originally commissioned for the 1936 Heritage Press edition.
Whitman, Walt. Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself. Portland, Oregon & Brooklyn: Tin House Books, 2014.
With Whitman Illuminated, the artist Allen Crawford has created an illustrated, interpretive version of Whitman’s poem that functions almost like a 21st-century illuminated manuscript.
