Library Company of Philadelphia
![Happy 200th Birthday to the celebrated poet, essayist, and journalist (also Philadelphia area local), Walt Whitman!
Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 [graphic]. ca. 1870 1 photographic print : albumen on carte de visite mount ; 4 x 2.5 in. (10 x 6 cm.) [from...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/2ece0a68f822151010d4fd6218b9ddd6/tumblr_psdh1oUitR1u23qdao1_250.jpg)
Happy 200th Birthday to the celebrated poet, essayist, and journalist (also Philadelphia area local), Walt Whitman!
“The house in which a great poet has lived always interests us, but it can not hold so much of his life as the trees through which his thoughts have made Æolian melodies, or the roadsides along which his imaginations have blossomed into song.” –Lucy Larcom.
We’re celebrating #PublishersBindingThursday and #NationalPoetryMonth with our copy of Lucy Larcom’s Landscape in American Poetry (New York, circa 1879), which features overlapping landscape designs printed in black and gold, as well as bevelled edge boards.
Larcom, Lucy.
Landscape in american poetry. New York : D. Appleton and Company.
[c1879]
It’s a #PublishersBindingThursday double feature! Both of our copies of Willis’ Sacred Poems (New York, 1847) are bound in a green and black printed-pattern cloth. We can’t decide which is our favorite. Can you?