Omoo
Author:
Melville, Herman
Illustrator:
Stone, Reynolds
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Dreyfus, John
Printer:
Oxford University Press
Printer:
Ridler, Vivian
By Herman Melville, with a new introduction by Van Wyck Brooks ; wood engravings by Reynolds Stone.
Xix,272, [3] p ; 26 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John
Production date: AD 1961
Of this edition fifteen hundred copies have been made ... It has been designed by John Dreyfus and printed at the University Press, Oxford by Vivian Ridler, printer to the University, on a paper specially made for the edition by Cowan's of Midlothian..."--Colophon. Museum has copy no. "J.D." signed by the illustrator. Bound in hand-marbled white linen, with leather spine label. Issued in slipcase (white cloth over boards with paper label)
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composed of
paper
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Accession number: PB 236-2003
Primary reference Number: 95760
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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