NMLP P-037446 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Leaves of Grass (1855 first edition)

Walt Whitman · Self-published, printed by Andrew & James Rome (Brooklyn) · 1855

Some Binding B copies show the blind ornaments reversed at the centre of the covers, and every recorded copy with that reversal also contains the eight-page insertion of printed reviews and extracts (including notices Whitman wrote of himself anonymously) that he had bound into part of the remainder

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-037446 for "Leaves of Grass (1855 first edition)" by Walt Whitman (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037446, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).