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Whitman designed the green cloth cover and typeset and paid for the printing of the book himself. “Grass” was a term given by publishers to works of minor value, and “leaves” is another name for the pages on which they were printed. The first edition, published in Brooklyn on 4 July 1855, at the printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s, did not include his name, but contained an engraving by Samuel Hollyer depicting Whitman in work clothes and hat, arms at his side. On, Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and received its copyright. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades-the first, published in 1855, a small book of twelve poems and the last, published in 1892, a compilation of over 400. Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it many times. Whitman’s poems are a celebration of his philosophy of life and his love of nature, rich in both sexual and sensual imagery.

One of the most important items held in the Crewe Collection in Trinity College Library is a first edition of Leaves of Grass, a collection of poetry by the American writer Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Walt Whitman, an engraving by Samuel Hollyer in the first edition of Leaves of Grass