with
Portraits from Life. Camden, New Jersey, 1876.

Sixth edition.

Octavo, half-calf, leather label, title, contents, vi; pp. 384,
advertisement. Portrait same as in the first edition facing page
29; woodcut portrait by W. J. Linton facing page 285.

1876

Leaves of Grass. [Nine-line poem in author's holograph, signed Walt
Whitman.] Author's Edition. With Portraits and Intercallations. Camden,
New Jersey, 1876.

Octavo, half calf, leather label, uncut. The same in every
detail except for a new title. At the end of the table of
contents a slip is tipped in:

Intercallations Page

As in a Swoon 207
The Beauty of the Ship 247
When the Full-Grown Poet Came 359
After an Interval 369

On each page indicated will be found a poem, tipped in.

There is a variation in the intercallations: a few contain "A
Death Sonnet for Custer."

1876

Two Rivulets including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage
to India. Author's Edition. Camden, New Jersey, 1876.

Octavo, half-calf, leather label; portrait, "Photo'd from life,
Sept., '72, Brooklyn, N. Y., by G. F. Pearsall, Fulton St."
signed "Walt Whitman, born May 31, 1819"; title, pp. 32, blank
leaf; Democratic Vistas, pp. 84; blank page; Centennial Songs,
1876, pp. 1-18; blank page; As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free,
preface, pp. x, pp. 14, blank page; Passage to India, pp. 120;
blank page, advertisement.

The above and Leaves of Grass, 1876, were uniform in binding and
comprised Whitman's complete works to date.

1881

Leaves of Grass [device]. Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1881-82.

Seventh edition.

Duodecimo, yellow cloth, facsimile signature stamped in gilt on
front cover; title, contents, pp. 382. This edition was
suppressed by District Attorney Stevens on complaint of the
Society for the Suppression of Vice. The unbound copies were
claimed by the author who inserted a new title-page. The plates
were turned over to Rees, Welsh and Company. Later they were
given to David McKay, who issued several editions bearing the
dates of 1884, 1885, 1886. There is also an edition from these
plates with McKay's imprint and Putnam's name on the binding.

1881

Leaves of Grass. By Walt Whitman, Author's