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WHITMAN, Walt. Complete Writings . New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons for The Knickerbocker Press, 1902. 10 volumes, large 8vo (244 x 175 mm). WITH AN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LEAF in Vol. I (see below), frontispiece portraits of Whitman in Vols 1, 3-9, frontispiece plate of his birthplace (Vol. 2), and his tomb (Vol. 10), frontispiece plates in Vols II-X in two states: handcolored on wove paper, and uncolored on india paper mounted. 30 additional plates (including 12 further portraits of Whitman), all in two states (on wove paper and on india paper mounted), folding plate of facsimile poetical manuscript in Vol. II, series title-pages on japan vellum in red and green, volume title-pages for Vols I-III ( Leaves of Grass ) in red and black. Green morocco, double gilt fillet panel with inlaid central diamond and tulips in red, white and greeen on front and back covers, with gilt floral decoration, spines gilt in compartments, turn-ins gilt, red watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges uncut (spines very slightly faded). Provenance : Samuel Verplanck Hoffman (engraved armorial bookplate). THE AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT EDITION, NUMBER 5 OF 32 SETS, EACH WITH A PAGE OF MANUSCRIPT BY WHITMAN. This posthumous edition was supervised by his literary executors, Horace Traubel, Richard M. Bucke and Thomas B. Harned. The executors also supplied an authorized biography of Whitman for the first volume, and Oscar Lovell Triggs contributed a bibliography and other critical apparatus for the last. The manuscript leaf included in this set is titled "Acknowledgements," at the top and is signed at the end by Whitman. It is apparently a draft for an acknowledgement for an unnamed work, n.p., ca.1881, 1 page, small 4to, neatly inlaid, written in bold ink on the blank page of a letter addressed to Whitman . Whitman thanks his friends in Boston: "Among the many I desire gratefully to specify a few Bostonians by name: G.P. Lathrop, Boyle O'Reilly of the Pilot , T.H. Bartlett ... and Charles B. Ferrin, proprietor of the Revere House ... Mr. & Mrs. Fields, Mrs. Ole Bull and Mrs. Mosher...; and friendliest calls from W.D. Howells ... T.B. Aldrich, and from my old friends George Clapp and J. R Newhall of Lynn ... It was well I got away (April 19-20) in fair order, for if I had stayed another week I should have been killed with kindness and with eating and drinking. Walt Whitman." (10)