Leaves of Grass The third edition of <cite>Leaves of Grass</cite> was published in 1860. (The first two editions were published in 1855 and 1856; subsequent editions would appear in 1867, 1871, 1881, and 1891.) Whitman worked on the 1860 <cite>Leaves of Grass</cite> while a patron at Pfaff's in the late 1850s, and in 1860 and 1861 the  <cite>Saturday Press</cite> heavily publicized the publication of this work.