Content: Copy 1. Lenox (acquisition); The portrait is printed on heavy plate paper; The green cloth covers have gilt borders and the back is decorated with ornaments stamped in gilt; Duyckinck Collection; 85
Content: Copy 2. 54R0902 (acquisition); Author's name in copyright notice and on p. 29; In original blind stamped green cloth, gilt, with marbles end papers; title in rustic letters, gilt, on both covers; With autograph of Horace L. Traubel, 1892, on t.-p.; With two holograph letters from Mrs. Geo. G. Kimball to Horace L. Traubel laid in
Content: Copy 3. 54R0903 (acquisition); In original blind stamped green cloth, with buff end papers; title in rustic letters, gilt on front cover, blind on back cover; With the four leaves of press notices preceding the frontispiece; Portrait, on India paper, mounted; With bookplate of H. Buxton Forman
Content: Copy 4. In original pink paper covers; Whitman's own copy, with ms. note: 2d & fullest version of original edition 1855-'56; With 8 booklets of manuscript, 52 leaves in all, fastened in, and typed copies of six of them laid in; With autograph of Horace L. Traubel, 1892; and his ms. note about the finding of this copy; With holograph letter of nne Montgomerie Traubel to Oscar Lion, dated May 12, 1928, describing the finding of this copy after Whitman's death; Accompanied by holograph note by Anne Traubel, photograph of front cover, and reproduction of "Covers of Whitman's own copy..."
