The whale
By: by Herman Melville ; in three volumes
Contributors: Powell, W. T. R.; Jack Harris Samuels Library
Publisher: Richard Bentley
Published: 1851
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Captain Ahab (Fictitious character); Fiction; Whales; Whaling; Philosophical literature
Work titles: Moby Dick
Notes: Pagination: v.1. viii, 312 p.; v.2. iv, 303 p.; v.3. iv, 328 p.

500 copies printed in October 1851. Cf. Tanselle.

American edition published under title: Moby-Dick; or, The whale.

Rare Book copy: From the library of W.T.R. Powell with his bookplate.

BAL 13663

Tanselle, G.T. Checklist of editions of Moby-Dick, 1

Bequest of Mollie Harris Samuels