[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Hand-made Compilation of Portraits of Walt Whitman

[Charles Agvent]

[WHITMAN, Walt] SAUNDERS, Henry S[choley] (compiler). WHITMAN PORTRAITS. 
Toronto: Henry S. Saunders, 1946. First Edition. Brown cloth-backed 
boards (6-1/4" x 9") with paper spine label handbound by Saunders. A 
bound typescript with title page in manuscript and numerous manuscript 
additions with over 350 images of Whitman, many of them original 
photographs, pasted in opposite the text. An extensive examination of 
Whitman portraits that Saunders compiled and revised throughout the 
years, arranged chronologically and including original photographs, 
paintings, and drawings; busts, plaques, and medals; "Fancy pictures"; 
and caricatures. Includes an index of artists and titles. According to 
the SIGNED page of Notes, "The first copy of this book was made in 1922, 
later copies are dated when made. This is the 17th copy made." Also 
includes some handwritten notes by an owner who asked Saunders about the 
history of his production which she details towards the end of the book. 
A few extra images laid in. Bookplate of Harriet Chapman Sprague on the 
front pastedown. Near Fine and quite unusual and scarce. (#020899)    
     $1,500

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