BEERS, Henry. Bumblebee. New Preston, 1925. 15 etchings. 12 x 10 cm. (4-3/4 x 4 inches), wove paper. Original hand-bound tan paper-covered boards. Signed: "Bernhardt Wall ipse dixit."
Limited edition (#53 of 100 copies). Weber, p. 36: "Charming little book." Beers states: "Walt Whitman extracted [the text] for his 'Specimen Days' making a change in the text, which I adopted. Old Walt was quite lawless in his own practice but had a good eye for technik in other people's work." 70000141
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COPY NO...BUMBLEBEE EDITION—100 COPIES [illustrated limitation leaf]. Brown. Cutout etching in the shape of a beehive. 5 x 6 cm.
BUMBLEBEE HENRY A. BEERS... [illustrated title]. Brown. 10 x 7.5 cm.
[Garden] | Wall 25 [illustration]. Green. 10 x 7.5 cm.
One September evening in Washington Connecticut... [dedication leaf]. Crimson. 8 x 5 cm.
"Bumblebee" was first published in "Odds and Ends" in 1878, by Houghton, Mifflin and Co., and, in 1921, in a volume of "Poems" by Professor Beers... [text within floral border]. Blue. 8 x 5 cm.
BUMBLEBEE As I lay yonder in tall Grass... | Wall [illustrated text]. Green. 10 x 7.5 cm.
SWEET PEA WINE | Wall 1925 [illustration]. Green. 10 x 7.5 cm.
2 Rose liquor and the sweet-pea wine... [illustrated text]. Green. 10 x 7.5 cm.
[Bumblebee on flower] | Wall 1925 [illustration]. Green. 10 x 7.5 cm.
3 Oft had he lit with thirsty lip... [text]. Green. 10 x 7.5 cm.
[Bumblebee on flower] | Wall 1925 [illustration]. Green. 10 x 7.5 cm.
4 With tipsy hum, on sleepy wing...| Wall [illustrated text]. Green. 10 x 7.5 cm.
[Bumblebee approaching hive] [illustration]. Green. 10 x 7.5 cm.
5 When south wind floated him away... [illustrated text]. Green. 10 x 7.5 cm.
BERNHARDT WALL. ETCHER [printer's illustrated device]. Brown. 8 x 5.5 cm.
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