1923 Rare Book - Moby Dick or The White Whale illustrated by Mead SchaefferAuthor: Herman Melville. Illustrated by Mead Schaeffer. Title: Moby Dick or The White Whale. Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. Language: Text in English. Size: 9. 5" x 7. 5". Pages: 540 pages. Binding: Attractive and very good publishers original dark gray pebbled cloth with blind stamped vignette to front cover and gilt lettering to spine and front board (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed as shown, spine lightly faded as

Long misunderstood at its first publication

The author: (Translator) Edward William Lane (1801–1876) was a renowned British orientalist

some overall toning

First illustrated edition by Newell Convers Wyeth

celebrated for her ability to bring fairy tales and children's stories to life through her art

but overall well-preserved - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover

With an account of the mutineers of the "Bounty"

bearing the bookplate of Nellie Burget Miller

Illustrations: Lavishly illustrated with both colored and monochromatic illustrations by Charles van Sandwyk

Illustrator

The book: Rare and Attractive facsimile of the Second Major Edition in a wonderful Root & Son binding of The Compleat Angler (the spelling is sometimes modernized to The Complete Angler

translator and lexicographer