Melville's Marginalia Online

Cowen reports multiple erased pencil scores extending from lines 2-5, 6-10, 14-19, 25-28, and 30-32 (2:421), none of which are confirmed by the present digital edition.

5.308

5.309

5.310

5.311 (marked)

19-20] pencil enclosure.

Unmarked pages 312-343

32] pencil underline.

5.345 (marked)

1] pencil score.

Unmarked pages 346-358

Timon of Athens (pp. 359-446)

Unmarked pages 359-365

2-11] pencil broken score.
23-24] pencil score.

5.367 (marked)

19-20] pencil score.

Unmarked pages 368-389

30] pencil underline and score.

Unmarked pages 391-396

5.391

5.392

5.393

Top margin] pencil stray marks.

16-17] pencil underlines.

Unmarked pages 398-399

21-22] pencil score.

13-15] pencil score.

3] pencil underline.

Unmarked pages 404-410

6] pencil annotation:
"Served 'em right".

Unmarked pages 412-413

5.412

5.413

5.414 (marked)

16] pencil checkmark.
19-21] pencil checkmark.

Unmarked pages 415-422

32-33] pencil double cross-checks.

5.424

5.425 (marked)

26-27] pencil score.
38] pencil checkmark.

5.426 (marked)

11-12] pencil checkmark.
14-15] pencil checkmark.
28-30] pencil score.

5.427

5.428 (marked)

11-20] pencil score.

5.429 (marked)

30-31] inner pencil score and outer pencil triple score.

5.430 (marked and annotated)

9-16] pencil wavy score.
21] pencil diagonal score.
40-41] pencil strike-throughs.
Bottom margin] pencil annotation:
"Peace peace! Thou ass of a commentator!"

Unmarked pages 431-433

21-27] pencil wavy score.

Unmarked pages 435-439

5.435

Commentary

5.435

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Cowen reports an erased pencil score extending from line 23 to 32 (2:426), a marking that is not confirmed by the present digital edition.

4-6] pencil checkmark.

Unmarked pages 441-446

Coriolanus (pp. 447-572)

Unmarked pages 447-456

4-6] pencil wavy score.

Unmarked pages 458-506

6-8] pencil stray mark.

32] pencil checkmark.
33] pencil underline.

Unmarked pages 508-530

11-12] pencil score.
15] pencil score.
26-27] pencil score.

Unmarked pages 532-535

19-26] pencil score.

14] pencil score.
19-37] pencil score.

5.538 (marked)

1-36] pencil score.

Unmarked pages 539-571

Pencil annotation:
"The criticism on Coriolanus is one of
the most amusing of Johnson's performances.
The old codger's gravity in discoursing of
Menenius' merriment; the delicate propriety
in alluding to Virgilia; the lexicographical
definition of Coriolanus' character; the high Tory
terms bestowed upon Brutus & Sicinius, — make
a very diverting & quizzical variety; and the
various starched phrases fill the mind with
fudge. There is, perhaps, too much solemn
nonsense in the first sentence, & too little
sense in the last."

Commentary

5.572 (annotated)

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As shown in this image, Melville's inscription includes the following revision:

Line 10: much solemn] much <n>solemn

Back matter

Rear flyleaf

Rear flyleaf verso

Rear free endpaper

Rear free endpaper verso

Rear pastedown (with institutional label)

Top right corner] institutional label.

Rear board

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