Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers: Frontispiece – Antique Print
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Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers: Frontispiece comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers: Frontispiece
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A frontispiece, the engraved or printed illustration that faces a book's title page, is the element that sets this image apart, and here it belongs to a volume tied to Walt Whitman. Whitman, the Brooklyn-born poet who published the first edition of *Leaves of Grass* in 1855 and kept revising it for decades, was often pictured in such opening plates because publishers wanted a face to accompany his unconventional verse. The "Fellowship Papers" name points to the circle of admirers and correspondents who gathered around him and preserved his work and image. Frontispieces of this kind were usually made to be seen before a reader reached a single word of text, so they reveal how a writer wanted to be introduced to the public.
| Original scan | 2,825 × 3,957 px · prints to 9 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif08542_WaltWhitmanfellowshippapersfro |
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