iticisms of "Leaves of
Grass." Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860.

18mo, printed wrappers, pp. 64.

A reprint of current criticisms of the first and second
editions. Pp. 7, 30, 38, contain articles written and
contributed anonymously by Whitman to various New York papers.
They were later reprinted in the Fellowship papers and in In Re
Walt Whitman, 1893.

It is exceedingly rare.

1860

Leaves of Grass. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, Year '85 of The States.
(1860-61.)

Third edition. 154 poems.

Duodecimo, brown cloth, heavily blind embossed. Portrait, at the
age of forty, engraved by Schoff, after the painting by Charles
Hine, in 1859, on an irregular tinted background, title,
contents, pp. iv-456.

Issued May, 1860. The author went to Boston to superintend
the printing and binding. The publishers failed during the
period of financial depression at the beginning of the Civil War
and the plates were sold at auction to R. Worthington, who
surreptitiously used them with the original imprint. There are,
for this reason, four or more editions bearing the original
Thayer and Eldridge imprint. The first issue is distinguished by
the engraved portrait which is on an irregular tinted background
and by the gilt embossed butterfly on the backbone of the
binding. On the verso of the title is the inscription
"Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry. Printed by
George C. Rand & Avery." The second issue has the portrait on
white paper and lacks the gilt butterfly. The third issue, or
the first pirated issue, lacks the printer's inscription and is
bound in cheap cloth. Early issues, all spurious, contain
catalogues of Worthington's publications bound in at the end.
The plates were purchased by Whitman's literary executors after
his death.

In this edition the author abandons calling the months by their
common names and adopts the Quaker style: that of calling
September the Ninthmonth, etc.

Copies of the first issue with the tinted portrait are extremely
scarce. The various editions have heretofore remained
undistinguished.

1865

Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps. New York, 1865.

Duodecimo, brown cloth, title (Drum-Taps) stamped on gold ground
on front cover, title, contents, iv, pp. 5-72.

But few copies had been issued when the death of President