Walt Whitman (à Léon Bazalgette)
Subtitle: with two portraits
By: by Stuart Merrill.
Contributors: Brady, Mathew B., 1823 (ca.)-1896.; Sterner, Albert, 1863-1946.; Garrett, Edmund Henry, 1853-1929, bookplate designer.; Wiksell, Gustave Percival, donor.; Carolyn Wells Houghton Whitman Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Henry S. Saunders
Published: 1922
Place of publication: Toronto, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Portraits; Merrill, Stuart, 1863-1915 -- Portraits
Genres: Portraits.
Notes: "From 'Le masque' series II, numbers 9 and 10, Brussels, 1912."
"This translation was dictated by my friend 'Aeon,' January 8, 1922"--Prelim. p. 3.
"One hundred [in ms.: and fifteen] copies were printed. Numbered, bound and signed by [in ms.: Henry S. Saunders]"--Prelim. p. 3.
The portrait of Whitman is a reproduction photograph of an unpublished photograph by Mathew Brady. An original photographic print, with the inscription Walt Whitman, 1875, is available in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress (see LCCN 97505148) and in digitized form at the web address given below.
The portrait of Stuart Merrill is a reproduction photograph of a drawing by Albert C. Sterner. The drawing is dated September 1891.
LC Copy 1 is no. 22 in the limited edition. Acquired by the Library of Congress in 1922 under accession no. 307252.
LC Copy 2 is no. 37 in the limited edition. Has the illustrated bookplate of Carolyn Wells. Has a typescript note laid in: This Mr Saunders [in pencil: publisher] is the man who made the three books full of pasted in pictures, of Whitman and Leaves of Grass &c.  From the bequest of Mrs. Carolyn Wells Houghton, May 8, 1942.
LC Copy 3 is no. 21 in the limited edition. Has the illustrated bookplate of Gustave P. Wiksell (an etching), signed by the artist: Edmund H. Garrett, op 60, 1904. Gift of Gustave P. Wiksell, Sept. 27, 1939.
LC Copy 4 is no. 24 in the limited edition.