Research Catalog

Title

A perfect prodigy : Melville on the birth of Malcolm.

Author

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.

Publication

[New York] : The New York Public Library, 1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Melville, Allan, 1823-1872.
• Cohen, Hennig.
• Yannella, Donald.
• New York Public Library. Manuscript. Gansevoort-Lansing (Add.)

Description

[11] p. : ill., facsims.; 32 cm.

Alternative Title

Malcolm letter.

Subject

• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 > Correspondence > Facsimiles
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 > Family
• Authors, American > 19th century > Correspondence

Note

• "Commentary and transcription ... are extracted from an extensive study of the 'Malcolm letter' by Hennig Cohen ... and Donald Yannella ... to be published by the Library"--Colophon, p. [11].
• Comprises introduction by Cohen and Yannella and transcription and facsimile of: Letter, [1849] Feb. 12, [Boston], to Allan Melville / H. Melville. Original in the Gansevoort-Lansing Collection (Additions) of the New York Public Library.
• Blank leaves following t.p. and preceding colophon leaf not included in collation, above.

Call Number

*KP+ (Colorado) 87-37

OCLC

• 15693910
• NYPG87-B24595

Author

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.

Title

A perfect prodigy : Melville on the birth of Malcolm.

Imprint

[New York] : The New York Public Library, 1986.

Local Note

No. 3 of 230 copies designed, printed in tan (ill.), black (introd. and facsims.) and blue (transcription), and bound at The Press at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo.

Second copy (JFG 22-75) has no. 206 of 230.

Added Author

Melville, Allan, 1823-1872.

Cohen, Hennig.

Yannella, Donald.

New York Public Library. Manuscript. Gansevoort-Lansing (Add.)

Added Title

Malcolm letter.

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Colorado) 87-37

JFG 22-75