Added title page, engraved, has imprint: London : W. Pickering ; New-York : C.H. Peabody, 1831., Herman Melville's copy with his manuscript notes. Won by Melville at the Albany Academy in August 1831 as the 1st premium in the 2d class in the 4th dept. Melville's name stamped on the cover in gold and label from Albany Academy awarding him the book on inside front cover. Verses in Melville's hand on front and back fly-leaves. Markings in another hand also., and Imperfect: added title page and frontispiece wanting; p. 179-180 wanting.
Publisher:
C.H. Peabody,
Subject (Name):
Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Ms. notes and Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Ownership
"All the papers, in the two volumes here offered to the public, were written by myself and Mr. Hunt, except a letter communicated by a friend in the seventeenth number." Advertisement, p. vi.
Publisher:
Printed Archibald Constable and co., and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London,
"All the papers, in the two volumes here offered to the public, were written by myself and Mr. Hunt, except a letter communicated by a friend in the seventeenth number." Advertisement, p. vi.
Publisher:
Printed Archibald Constable and co., and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London,
"Out of the fifty-two numbers, twelve are Mr. Hunt's, with the signatures L.H. or H.T."--Advertisement, signed: W. Hazlitt., Herman Melville's copy /[dated] May 11 70 /N.Y., and Papers which originally appeared in the Examiner between January 1815 and January 1817. Some papers not in the original series are included and several are omitted--cf. Ireland, Alexander. List of the writings of William Hazlitt.
