Melville, Herman | The preferred edition

Property from the Workman Collection

Melville, Herman

Redburn. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1849

8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth, stamped in blind with gilt spine title; just a little wear at spine ends and usual foxing internally. Cloth slipcase.            

First American edition and the preferred one in spite of the English edition preceding it for copyright purposes by about a month. The English edition was taken from American proofs while that of the New York edition was from the author's manuscript.

REFERENCE:

BAL 13660