PUBLISHER'S MOCK-UP, PRINTING AN EXCERPT BY WALT WHITMAN
("Political democracy, as it exists and practically works...")/ A Christmas Greeting from Alice and Rollo Silver, 1972.
[Boston]: [Privately Printed for] Alice and Rollo Silver, 1972.
Price: $300.00
About the item
First separate edition (by this publisher), publisher's mock-up proof. PUBLISHER'S MOCK-UP, PRINTING AN EXCERPT BY WALT WHITMAN. A fine copy. Myerson I25, for published work, issued as a four-page Christmas Greeting, printing a selection from Walt Whitman's 'Democratic Vistas'; OCLC locates only three holdings of the final printed state (Harvard, Brown, S. Carolina).
Item #332603
For the publisher's mock-up:
Single sheet of beige cardstock, folded once to make four twelvemo pages, printed in red (with paste-on mock-up printed in black). Prints a twenty-five line statement by Walt Whitman, beginning: "Political democracy, as it exists and practically works in America, with all its threatening evils, supplied a training-school for making first-class men..." (dated 1871). The front cover is printed and decorated in red lettering; also present are two separate pieces of printed cardstock with black lettering (with light glue marks on cover and verso of cardstock pieces, where publisher's "mock-up" revisions were lightly affixed over the red lettering on front cover). Printer's decorative ornaments (printed in red) are affixed above and below Whitman's printed text.
A scarce publication.
