MOBY DICK, OR THE WHALE
$14,400 · Offered by Biblio
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. black cloth with decorations and title stamped in silver, top edge stained black, aluminum slipcase. Kent, Rockwell. 4to. black cloth with decorations and title stamped in silver, top edge stained black, aluminum slipcase. xxvii, (1), 279; vi, (2), 284; vii, (1), 282, (5) pages. With a total of 280 illustrations by Rockwell Kentprinted in black. Three volumes. First edition thus, limited to 1000 copies printed by the Lakeside Press under the supervision of William A. Kittredge (The Artist and the Book no.140; Bolton p.94; Blumenthal, The Printed Book in America, plate 48). Lacking the publisher's acetate jackets. Spines with a hint of fading, very minor rubbing to volume one and two, slight offsetting of the engravings to the opposite pages, else a fine set of one of the finest productions produced by The Lakeside Press. One of the most notable of Kent's illustrated books and a classic interpretation of Melville's story. Kent had complete creative control over his edition and "spent five years researching and designing his project, during which time he discovered many of the 19th-century textual and visual sources that had influenced Melville" (Abrams, p. 377). The three-volume set was also one of the four titles produced by R. R. Donnelley and Sons' Lakeside Press under the "Four American Books" campaign, with the other three being Edgar Allan Poe's Tales , Henry David Thoreau's Walden , and Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast. I
- Publisher: The Lakeside Press
- Year: 1930
- Binding: unknown
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