A Melville Bicentenary (in sheets)

A Melville Bicentenary: Three tales by Herman Melville on the anniversary of his birth. Sold in unfolded sheets

• Eleven signatures: nine of five folios, two of four folios, 212 pages total.

• unfolded page size (short grain) 8.5 x 11”

• folded text block: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 5/8"

• Includes four matching blank sheets for use as endpapers.

Formatted from public domain text and laser printed onto 70 lb text weight "natural" white paper (close to the tone of Arches text). Created 2019.

Stories include:

• Bartleby, the Scrivener

• The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids (inspired by the author’s 1851 visit to the Crane and Company paper mill in western Massachusetts)

• Billy Budd, Sailor