Walt Whitman’s books … also, John Burroughs’ “Notes on Walt Whitman as poet and person.”

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Creator

Whitman, Walt.

Title

Walt Whitman’s books … also, John Burroughs’ “Notes on Walt Whitman as poet and person.”

Coverage

[Washington, D.C.?]

Publisher

[s.n.}

Date

[1872]

Description

Throughout his literary life, Walt Whitman (1819–1892) never forgot his roots in the printing trade and the years he spent as an apprentice with newspaper printers in Long Island and New York city. This broadside, which uses eight different type faces, was apparently designed by Whitman himself to help booksellers promote the five titles listed. Most known copies of this broadside are printed on paper; this is one of a very few surviving copies on linen.