Folio Society Published Works Number 2004
Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
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Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass (Published in by The Folio Society in 2009. Introduced by Andrew Motion. Illustrated by Abigail Rorer. Quarter bound in leather with buckram sides, blocked with a design by Frances Button. Top edge gilt. Set in Adobe Caslon. Ribbon marker and gilded top edge. 200 pages with 20 wood engravings and 9 tail pieces. Size: 10" × 7.5". On 4 July 1855, an unknown journalist and printer's devil named Walt Whitman published a book of poetry, written, designed, typeset and distributed by himself. Whitman sent a copy of the book to Ralph Waldo Emerson, who instantly hailed it as 'the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed'. Today Leaves of Grass remains a visionary masterpiece, a hymn to nature and humankind's place in it. In the words of former poet laureate Andrew Motion in the introduction to this edition, it is 'quite simply one of the most remarkable first books of poems ever published'. In his preface to Leaves of Grass, Whitman declared that 'The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem … not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.' His transcendental vision of an America united without barriers of race and creed encompasses the whole realm of physical and spiritual experience. This Folio Society edition is the only illustrated edition currently in print. The binding is based on the original design of the 1855 edition, and stunning woodcut illustrations by Abigail Rorer bring Whitman's vision to new life. )
