This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking.
It is printed in black only throughout, and it is not slipcased..
This reduced version is smaller in size than the Arion edition and the California deluxe edition, but it includes all of the original pages and illustrations.
The text of Moby-Dick used in this edition is based on that used in the critical edition of Melville\'s works published by the Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library.
The illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser.
The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened Leviathan.
It was hand set under the supervision of one of America\'s finest book designers and printers.
This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking
