1926 Benito Cereno

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

A limited edition of 1650 copies, of which this is number 899.

Reproduced from that of the first edition of 'The Piazza Tales' (1856), a short story collection.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title, six plates, and many vignettes. All of which are hand-coloured. Collated, complete.

Set in 1799, this novella tells the fictional account of the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno. Written by Herman Melville, an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Illustrated by Edward McKnight Kauffer, an American artist and graphic designer.