Quarter cream cloth blocked in gold; bright blue embossed cloth sides, blocked in blind. Pale yellow end-papers.
Notes—(i) This book was published on October 18, 1851. The English edition predates the American one. 500 copies were printed.
(ii) Vol. I. only has half-title, on which the story is described as The Whale or Moby Dick.
1851
MOBY DICK: Or The Whale. By Herman Melville, Author of Typee, Omoo, Redburn, Mardi, White-Jacket. New York: Harper and Bros. Publishers. London: Richard Bentley. 1851. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). Pp. (xxx) [paged as xxiii + (i)] + 634 + (12). Epilogue occupies p. (635). Publishers' advertisements, 6 pp., occupy pp. (637)-(642). Pp. (i) (ii) and (647) (648) are pasted down to front and back inside end-papers. No printed half-title. Slate-blue or scarlet cloth, gilt. Orange end-papers.
Notes—(i) The varieties of binding are of simultaneous date.
(ii) This book was expurgated for publication in England, the American text containing thirty-five passages not included in Bentley's edition (see previous item).
1852
PIERRE: Or The Ambiguities. By Herman Melville. New York: Harper and Bros., Publishers, 329 and 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square. 1852. 1 vol. Cr. 8vo (4⅞ × 7⅜). Pp. (xii) [paged as viii] + 495 + (6). Pp. (i) (ii) and (501) (502) are pasted down to front and back inside end-papers. No printed half-title. Dark grey cloth, gilt, blocked in blind. Dark grey end-papers.