Notes—(i) This book was published on January 23, 1850. The English edition predates the American one. 1,000 copies were printed.
(ii) Vol. I. pp. iii and iv contain a preface dated October, 1849, and different in content from the note on p. iv of the American edition, dated March, 1850.
1850
WHITE JACKET: Or The World in a Man of War. By Herman Melville. Author of Typee, Omoo, Mardi and Redburn. New York: Harper and Bros., Publishers, 82 Cliff Street. London: Richard Bentley. 1850. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7½). Pp. (484). Here again the paging is irregular. Of the preliminary matter pp. (1)-(6) are blank; p. (7) is title-page; p. (8) bears note of the book's official registration; p. (9) bears quotation from Fuller's Good Sea-Captain; p. (10) bears author's note, dated New York, March, 1850; pp. (11)-(13) are occupied by List of Contents and are paged in roman numerals, (v) to vii; p. (14) is blank; pp. (15) to (471) are paged (9) to 465; p. (472) is blank; pp. (473)-(476) are unpaged and occupied by advertisements of other works by Melville; pp. (477) (478) are also unpaged and occupied by publishers' advertisements; pp. (479)-(484) are blank and unpaged. No printed half-title. Dark brown or blue-grey cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Yellow end-papers.
Note—The varieties of binding are of simultaneous date.
1851
THE WHALE. By Herman Melville, author of Typee, Omoo, Redburn, Mardi, White Jacket. (Quotation from Paradise Lost.) London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street. 1851. 3 vols. Ex. Cr. 8vo (4¾ × 7¾).
Vol. I. pp. viii + 312.
Vol. II. pp. iv + 303 + (1).
Vol. III. pp. iv + 328.