Accession number
PML 145532-34
Creator
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Published
Chicago : Lakeside Press, 1930.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated title-pages.
"This edition of Moby Dick has been designed and illustrated by Rockwell Kent. One thousand copies have been printed under the supervision of William A. Kittredge at R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, the Lakeside Press, Chicago"--Colophon, v. 3.
Illustrated throughout with 280 full-page cuts and head- and tailpieces, with the t.p.'s printed from relief engravings on copper.
"This edition of Moby Dick has been designed and illustrated by Rockwell Kent. One thousand copies have been printed under the supervision of William A. Kittredge at R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, the Lakeside Press, Chicago"--Colophon, v. 3.
Illustrated throughout with 280 full-page cuts and head- and tailpieces, with the t.p.'s printed from relief engravings on copper.
Description
3 v. (xxvii, 279; vi, 284; vii, 282 p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Original black cloth stamped and lettered in silver; in silver metal slipcase, as issued.
Classification
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