NMLP P-036776 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Herman Melville · Harper & Brothers (New York) — US; Richard Bentley (London) — UK · 1851

UK first (Richard Bentley, London, 18 October 1851): titled 'The Whale,' three volumes, about 500 copies, sea-blue cloth boards with cream spines stamped in gilt with a whale device; set from Harper proof-sheets and expurgated, with the Epilogue dropped

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036776 for "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale" by Herman Melville (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036776, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).