Moby Dick, or, The whale / by Herman Melville ; illustrated by Rockwell Kent.

Accession number: 
PML 145532-34
Author: 
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Published: 
Chicago : Lakeside Press, 1930.
Description: 
3 v. (xxvii, 279; vi, 284; vii, 282 p.) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Illustrated title-pages.
"This edition of Moby Dick has been designed and illustrated by Rockwell Kent. One thousand copies have been printed under the supervision of William A. Kittredge at R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, the Lakeside Press, Chicago"--Colophon, v. 3.
Illustrated throughout with 280 full-page cuts and head- and tailpieces, with the t.p.'s printed from relief engravings on copper.

Binding: 
Original black cloth stamped and lettered in silver; in silver metal slipcase, as issued.
Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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