(ii) A volume in Murray's “Colonial and Home Library” (No. 22). The Preface is dated New York, January 28, 1847.
(iii) Contemporary announcements of Murray's “Colonial and Home Library” speak of an issue of this book in two parts, “sewed,” and numbered respectively 43 and 44 of the series. I have never seen such wrappered issues, but, to judge by their numbering in the Library, they postdate the edition above described.
1849
MARDI AND A VOYAGE THITHER. By Herman Melville, author of Typee and Omoo. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1849. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾).
Vol. I. pp. x + 336 + (2).
Vol. II. pp. x + 335 + (3).
Vol. III. pp. viii + 348.
Titles printed in two colours. Pale apple-green cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Blue and white decorated end-papers, printed with publisher's advertisements.
Note—This book was published on March 16, 1849. The English edition predates the American one. 1,000 copies were printed.