Even the "plain letters, graceful and flowing but with odd flourishes" (35) on the 1860s cover of Leaves (right image) that Ed Folsom describes in his analysis of Whitman's spermatoid design elements, seem to have found their origin in the spine design of Stray Leaves.
(35) Ed Folsom, "'A spirt of my own seminal wet': Spermatoid Design in Walt Whitman's 1860 Leaves of Grass," Huntington Library Quarterly 73 (2010), 586.
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