"This edition ... has been limited to fifty copies. To accompany this edition, fifty portfolios of fourteen original items of Whitman memorabilia have been made up [For list cf. p. [43] of text]

Contents of portfolio.--Engraving of Whitman, 1860.--Proof of title page signature Notes on Walt Whitman, As Poet and Person, by John Burroughs, 1871.--Wood engraving by W.J. Linton, 1875.--Photograph of Whitman by G.F.E. Pearsall, 1872.--Proof of "Old Age Echoes", "The Unexpress'd", "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht", "After the Argument" from Lipponcott's Magazine, 1891.--Proof of "At the Graveside of Walt Whitman, 1892.--Proof of intercalations used in Centennial Edition, 1876.--Photograph of Whitman by F. Gutekunst, 1880 [i.e. 1890]--Proof of double title label for Complete poems & prose, 1888-89.--Handbill advertising Ingersoll lecture on "Liberty and Literature," 1890.--Reproduction of photograph of Whitman by F. Guteknunst.--Printed Whitman envelope, 1891.--Announcement label of the 1892 edition of Leaves of Grass.--Prospectus of Leaves of grass 1860 facsimile reprint proposed by Horace Traubel

Special Collections' copy signed by Charles E. Feinberg, numbered 40