NMLP P-036001 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09
White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War
Herman Melville · Richard Bentley (London) · 1850
The true first edition is Richard Bentley's London printing, two volumes, issued in an edition of only 1,000 copies, bound in blue morocco-grained cloth blind-stamped with a square-rigged ship on the upper cover and an anchor on the lower cover, spines lettered in gilt, with yellow endpapers and pastedowns carrying publisher's advertisements
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036001 for "White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War" by Herman Melville (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036001, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).