[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Walt Whitman TWO RIVULETS with a SIGNED Photograph

[Charles Agvent]

WHITMAN, Walt. TWO RIVULETS INCLUDING DEMOCRATIC VISTAS, CENTENNIAL 
SONGS, AND PASSAGE TO INDIA. Camden, NJ, 1876. Author's Edition. Bound 
in full green polished calf leather by Bayntun Riviere with double gilt 
rules, gilt spine decorations with the date in gilt at the bottom, 
contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, five raised bands, gilt 
dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ad leaf at rear for 
Whitman's Works. Also included, listed in the Contents but not on the 
title page, are AS A STRONG BIRD ON PINIONS FREE and MEMORANDA DURING 
THE WAR. BAL 21413 with 600 or 650 copies printed with a photographic 
frontispiece of Whitman. Most copies, as with this, were SIGNED by the 
poet on the photograph with the additional notation in Whitman's hand: 
"born May 31/1819." In addition this is INSCRIBED by the poet to 
"Clement Templeton/from the author" on the original yellow free 
endpaper. Templeton's ownership signature on a front blank. Bright, 
clean copy beautifully bound. Fine in a Fine green cloth slipcase.

Clement Templeton was a British concert master who in the 1870s presided 
over the Harrow Music School's efforts to promote good music through 
inexpensive concerts. He was considered a socialist for his attempts to 
interest working people in music associated at the time with the upper 
classes. In a letter dated 5 October [1877] to Edward Carpenter, Whitman 
mentions sending Templeton this volume (WALT WHITMAN. THE 
CORRESPONDENCE. Volume III: 1876-1885. #835, page 100). (#019348)        
$7,500.00

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