Leaves of Grass (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

513, [5] pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. "When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he rocked the literary world and forever changed the course of poetry. In subsequent editions, Whitman continued to revise and expand his poems." The text for this Franklin Library edition is based on the ninth, or 'Deathbed' Edition of 1892, the last presided over by the author and bearing his injunction to preserve it intact as the final form of Leaves of Grass.