The Bibliography of Walt Whitman

by Frank Shay

1865

Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps. New York, 1865.

Duodecimo, brown cloth, title (Drum-Taps) stamped on gold ground on front cover, title, contents, iv, pp. 5-72.

But few copies had been issued when the death of President Lincoln occurred and the author withheld the balance until a few weeks later when he added "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and other Pieces," with pagination distinct from that of Drum-Taps, as a sequel. This and the "Sequel" formed the first and second annexes to the fourth edition, 1867, of Leaves of Grass, and were later incorporated in the Washington, 1871 edition under the title of Drum-Taps. Copies without the "sequel" are exceedingly scarce.