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Photogravure Broadside - THE WHOLE PRESENT SYSTEM.....

Photogravure Broadside - THE WHOLE PRESENT SYSTEM..... by Whitman, Walt

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Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
Title
Photogravure Broadside - THE WHOLE PRESENT SYSTEM.....
Author
Whitman, Walt
Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Brookline, MA: David R, Godine Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 22" w x 31" h. A handsome broadside, 22" w x 31" h, featuring a 15" h x 20 ' w photogravure, printed by Joh. Enschede, Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, portraying a Civil War encampment with wounded soldiers resting beneath trees. Underneath, the quote, taken from Whitman's "Democratic Vistas:, note 2. "The whole present system of the officering and personnel of the army and navy of these States, and the spirit and letter of their trebly-aristocratic rules and regulations, is a monstrous exotic, a nuisance and revolt, and belong here just as much as orders of nobility, or the Pope's council of cardinals. I say if the present theory of our army and navy is sensible and true, then the rest of America is an unmitigated fraud. Walt Whitman". Printed on Cartridge Paper made by Schut, Heelsum, Holland and calligraphy by Bram De Does. No date, circa 1972. Near Fine, faint creases at edges. SCARCE.