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Sealts Number 483a
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| Author: |
Spenser, Edmund,1552-1599. |
| Title: |
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, in Eight Volumes from the Text of Mr. Upton &c. with the Life of the Author. |
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London: J. Bell, 1787-1788. |
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8 v. in 4. |
Sealts
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483a |
| Association: |
Autographed by Herman Melville's father Allan Melvill, marked and annotated by Herman Melville, and presented by him to his sister Augusta Melville. |
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Houghton Library, *AC85.M4977.Zz787s. |
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Front inscriptions: "Obh Rich Jr. Jan 1 1803 To his friend AMelvill—" (v. 1); "Augusta Melville from Herman" (v. 1, Augusta Melville's hand); "A Melville" (v. 1); "Gansevoort Aug 3d 1864" (v. 3, Herman Melville's hand); "C. H. 2" (v. 1, 2, 3, and 4). Consulted by Melville while on board his brother's ship the Meteor, as indicated by his inscription, which documents the ship's rounding of Cape Horn in August 1860. The trip was Melville's second around the cape to the Pacific (the first having occurred during his early whaling voyage aboard the Acushnet in 1841), and occurred "in very bad weather," as described in his 1 September 1860 letter to his son Malcolm (Correspondence 347-48
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