Photographic Copy Print of Walt Whitman

by Walt Whitman

$650 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Silver print paper stamped Tapioca on verso . Image 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches; Paper 8 x 5-1/2 inches. Toned, image faded. Very good. Item #339095 This image of Whitman is closely cropped from one of the portraits of Whitman taken during his visit to Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke in London, Ontario, and bears a transcription in an unknown hand from the preface to Leaves of Grass 1855 , in the variant form as recast by him in “Poem of Many in

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