Leaves of Grass. By Walt Whitman, Author's Copyright Edition [device]. London: David Bogue, 3 St. Martin's Place, Trafalgar Square, W. C., 1881. (All rights reserved.)
Octavo, olive cloth, uncut; title, contents, pp. 382. The collation being the same as that of the Boston, 1881 edition it is possible that Bogue purchased the sheets from Osgood or Whitman and bound the book to his own tastes.
There was another issue, same collation, in 1884.
1881
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman: Preface to the Original Edition, 1855 [device]. London: Trübner & Co., 1881.
Octavo, blue wrappers, uncut, title, pp. 31, advertisements.
Only 500 copies were printed.
An edition on large paper, bound in light blue wrappers and limited to twenty-five copies was issued at the same time.