Benito Cereno
By: by Herman Melville, with pictures by E. McKnight Kauffer
Contributors: Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954, illustrator
Publisher: The Nonesuch Press
Published: 1926
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
Description: A harrowing tale of slavery and revolt aboard a Spanish ship.
Notes: Title vignette; head-piece; tail-piece.

"The text of this edition...is reproduced from that of the first (1856) edition of 'The piazza tales'. It is printed in the Walbaum type with the pictures hand-coloured through stencils at the Curwen Press upon Van Gelder paper. This is no. 208 of 1650 copies ..."