Three Tales of Melville: A Melville Bicentenary on the Anniversary of His Birth.

Herman Melville.

Three Tales of Melville: A Melville Bicentenary on the Anniversary of His Birth.

Printed by Karen Hanmer, Glenview, IL,

2019

Conservation Binding in Paper Wrap, Marie Oedel, Wolfeboro, NH, 2024.

The three tales include ìBartleby, The Scrivener,î ìThe Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,î and Billy Budd, Sailor. It is Marieís custom, as Publications Chair of The Grolier Club, to make a clamshell box as a gift to each curator of a membersí exhibit; Marie is the book conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She offered me a choiceóa box or a bookóas she had a set of sheets that she thought might be of interest to me. I chose the book to add to my collection. The paper cover is made from a sheet of Karli Friggeís marbled paper, and the paper wrap is made from Katie MacGregorís handmade paper. This is another example of the creative collaboration among Grolier members, friends, and staff that made this exhibition possible.

From the Collection of William Palmer Johnston.