Walt Whitman Bicentennial Medal. commissioned

by The Grolier Club of New York by Walt. Marc Mellon Whitman

$650 · Offered by The Veatchs Arts of the Book

NY, 2019. Bronze uniface relief of Whitman, 3.5 inches in diameter, by sculptor & medalist Marc Mellon. As new, in box with plexiglass stand. Item #19061 One of 100 medals struck in bronze. This Whitman continues a tradition begun by the Grolier Club in 1892, with the first of 6 other medals: Hawthorne, Lowell, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, and Jean Grolier/Gutenberg.With the prospectus, and The Grolioer Club

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