[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Walt Whitman TWO RIVULETS, 1876, in Fine Binding & also INSCRIBED

[Charles Agvent]

WHITMAN, Walt. TWO RIVULETS INCLUDING DEMOCRATIC VISTAS, CENTENNIAL 
SONGS, AND PASSAGE TO INDIA. Camden, NJ: (New Republic Print), 1876. 
First 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; MYERSON A.9.1.b. First and 
only edition, second printing of 600 or 650 copies printed, with 
numerous revisions, after the first printing which consisted of only 100 
copies. 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

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