A FONT OF TYPE.
This latent mine—these unlaunch’d voices—passionate powers,Wrath, argument, or praise, or comic leer, or prayer devout,(Not nonpareil, brevier, bourgeois, long primer merely,)These ocean waves arousable to fury and to death,Or sooth’d to ease and sheeny sun and sleep,Within the pallid slivers slumbering.
Whitman published the first Leaves of Grass himself. He paid a Brooklyn printer, Andrew Rome, to print it, set about ten of its pages in type (by his own account), and had most of the copies bound in green cloth stamped in gold. These pages study his books as made things, and they were made with stanza, a press anyone can use.
- The EditionThe first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855), each page beside its photograph, with a search and a Concordance.1855 · 1891–92
- The BooksHis editions as places to visit, from the 1855 to the 1891–92.
- Visual GlossaryThe rules, flowers, and ornaments his printers used, on one page for writers to see and use.
- StudiesPapers on his books: his flowers, his work as a printer, and his spellings.
- MethodsWhere each text and picture comes from, its rights, and how the words were checked.
- AboutWho makes this, how to cite it, and how to send a correction.