Billy Budd, Sailor
Subtitle: an inside narrative
By: by Herman Melville.
Contributors: Alterman, Benjamin.; Alterman, Deborah.; Married Mettle Press.; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Married Mettle Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Mount Holly, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Executions and executioners -- Fiction; Ship captains -- Fiction; Impressment -- Fiction; Sailors -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: "The text of this edition was edited from the manuscript by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr., copyright 1962 by the University of Chicago"--Verso of t.p.
"This limited edition of 185 books was made by Benjamin and Deborah Alterman ... All the artwork was printed directly from engraved endgrain woodblocks. 160 copies (Arabic numerals 1-160) were bound with a patinated bronze spine and wooden boards ... 25 copies (Roman numerals I-XXV) were issued in sheets. Deborah engraved the woodblocks and Benjamin did the typography. Together they designed the book and the artwork"--Colophon.
LC has copy no. 40, signed by the Altermans.