Benito Cereno / by Herman Melville ; with pictures by E. McKnight Kauffer.

Accession number: 
PML 75939
Author: 
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Published: 
[London] : The Nonesuch Press ..., [1926]
Credit: 
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1974.
Description: 
4, 122, [2] p. : ill. ; 32 cm
Notes: 

"The text of this edition ... is reproduced from that of the first (1856) edition of 'The piazza tales' ... with the pictures hand-coloured through stencils at the Curwen Press ... 1650 copies printed for sale ... "--Colophon.
Library has no. 793.
Title vignette; head piece; tail-piece.

Binding: 
Black morocco with red morocco onlays by D. Evetts, dated 1971; in olive-green case.
Classification: 
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