The Early Lives of Melville: Nineteenth-Century Biographical Sketches and Their Authors - Hardcover

list of b&w illustrations, preface, Part I. Records and Recorders: A Man of the Time: Melville in the Biographical Dictionaries; The Biographers of the Nineties. Part II. The Documents: From Four Contemporary Reference Words, 1852-1890; Retrospective Essays, 1891-1892; Appendix A-E; notes, chronology of Melville's life, index. First Edition, 1974. Tan cloth with dark-blue lettering to spine. ``At the core of the book are the primary documents---the early Lives of Melville: four significant articles from cal reference works published between 1852-1890, six retrospective essays of 1891-1892, and further reminiscences of Melville by his wife and two of his granddaughters." from the jacket flap.