MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER. By Herman Melville. New York: Harper and Bros. Publishers, 82 Cliff Street. 1849. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜).
Vol. 1. pp. (376). The paging is very irregular. Pp. (1) to (6) are blank and unpaged; p. (7) is title-page; p. (8) bears note of the book's official registration; p. (9) bears dedication; p. (10) is blank; p. (11) bears preface dated New York, January, 1849; p. (12) is blank; p. (13) is half-title; p. (14) is blank; pp. (15) to (18) are occupied by List of Contents paged (ix) to xii; pp. (19) to (371) are paged (13) to 365; pp. (372) to (376) are blank and unpaged. Pp. (1) (2) and (375) (376) are pasted down to front and back inside end-papers.
Vol. II. pp. (408), of which pp. (1)-(6) are blank and unpaged; p. (7) is title-page; p. (8) bears note of the book's official registration; p. (9) is half-title; p. (10) is blank; pp. (11)-(14) are occupied by List of Contents paged (ix) to xii; pp. (15) to (393) are paged (9) to 387; p. (394) is blank and unpaged; pp. (395)-(402) are occupied by publishers' advertisements paged (1) to 8; pp. (403)-(408) are blank and unpaged. Pp. (1) (2) and (407) (408) are pasted down to front and back inside end-papers.
It should be noted that in each volume the printed half-title follows the title-page.
Dark green cloth, blocked in gold and blind. Yellow end-papers.
1849
REDBURN: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor boy confessions and reminiscences of the son of a gentleman in the Merchant Service. By Herman Melville. Author of Typee, Mardi etc. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1849. 2 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7¾).
Vol. I. pp. viii + 316. No half-title.
Vol II. pp. viii + 314.
Dark blue cloth, gilt, blocked in blind, white end-papers patterned in blue and printed with publisher's advertisements.