Leaves of grass.
Contributors: Shoemaker, William Lukens, b. 1822, former owner.; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, former owner.; Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902, former owner.; Gable, William F., 1856-1921, former owner.; Curtis, George William, 1824-1892, former owner.; Newton, A. Edward 1864-1940, former owner.; Gill, Robert Lee, former owner.; Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919, former owner.; Carolyn Wells Houghton Whitman Collection (Library of Congress); Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress).
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Brooklyn, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Notes: BAL 21396
Myerson, J.  Whitman, p. 23-27
Author's name, Walt Whitman, appears in copyright statement on t.p. verso.
Second edition.
Fowler & Wells and the author variously listed as the publisher. Cf. Myerson, BAL.
Advertisement of Fowler & Wells on p. [385].
Issued in green cloth binding, with title, author, and quotation (I greet you at the beginning of a great career. R.W. Emerson) goldstamped on spine; title goldstamped on front, blindstamped on rear, with blind-stamped leaves within triple-rule borders. Edges sprinkled red-orange.
LC copy has ms. note on t.p.: Deposited in Clerk's Office, So. Dist. New York, Sept. 11, 1856.