Herman Melville bibliography

The bibliography of Herman Melville includes magazine

articles, book reviews, other occasional writings, and 15 books. Of
Herman Melville

these, seven books were published between 1846 and 1853, seven bibliography
more between 1853 and 1891, and one in 1924. Melville was 26
when his first, and had been dead for 33 years when his last, books
were published. At the time of his death he was on the verge of
completing the manuscript for his first novel in three decades, Billy
Budd, and had accumulated several large folders of unpublished
verse.

The year 1853 saw a physical disaster which renders the books
published by him in America prior to that date even more scarce
today than would normally have been the case. At one o'clock on
the afternoon of Saturday, December 10, 1853, the establishment
of Melville's publishers Harper Brothers was completely destroyed
by fire, reportedly caused by a plumber throwing a lit candle into a
bucket of camphene, which he mistook for water. The fire burned
Harper's stock of Melville's unsold books which consisted of:
Herman Melville, 1870. Oil painting
Typee, 185; Omoo, 276; Mardi, 491; Redburn, 296; White Jacket,
by Joseph Oriel Eaton.
292  ; Moby-Dick, 297; and Pierre, 494. Mardi and Pierre,
Melville's two least popular books, had the largest number of Novels ↙ 11
unsold copies burned.[1] Although Isle of the Cross is a possible Articles ↙ 8
lost work refused publication in 1853, the year was also the
Stories ↙ 17
beginning of the long period of unpopularity precipitated by the
appearance of Pierre and The Confidence Man (1857). Melville Collections ↙ 5
then turned his attention to poetry, to which he devoted more years Unfinished works ↙ 1
than he had to travel adventure and fiction.[2]
References and footnotes
A Melville revival that began in the 1920s led to the reprinting of
many of his works, then out of print in the United States. Raymond Weaver, Melville's first biographer,
edited a 16 volume edition for the London publisher Constable which included the first publication of Billy
Budd.[3] In 1926, Moby Dick was among the first titles in the newly founded Modern Library series.
Beginning in 1948, independent publisher Walter Hendricks recruited scholars to edit annotated editions of
Melville's works, beginning with a volume of his poetry.[4] Produced under the general editorship of
Howard P. Vincent, the series was originally projected to include 14 volumes but in the end no more than 7
appeared.[5]

In the 1960s, Northwestern University Press, in alliance with the Newberry Library and the Center for
Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association, established ongoing publication runs of Melville's
various titles.[6] The aim of the editors, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle, was to
present unmodernized "critical texts" which represented "as nearly as possible the author's intentions."[7]
The editors adopted as "copy text" either the author's fair copy manuscript or the first printing based on it,
which were then collated against any further printings in Melville's lifetime, since he might have made
corrections or changes. In the case of Moby-Dick, for instance, after collating the American and British
editions from the various printings, the editors adopted 185 revisions and corrections from the English
edition and incorporated 237 emendations made by the editors. The "Editorial Appendixes" for each
volume included an "Historical Note" on composition and publication, an extensive account of the editorial
process, a list of emendations and changes, as well as related documents.[7]

Melville's lifetime earnings from his first seven books (over a period of 41 years, from 1846 to 1887)
amounted to $10,444.53, of which $5,966.40 came from American publishers and $4,478.13 from British.
The best-selling title in the United States was Typee (with 9,598 copies). The book which earned Melville
the most in the United States was Omoo ($1,719.78).[8]

Contents
Novels
Short stories
Poetry
Collections
Single poems
Uncollected or unpublished in Melville's lifetime
Essays
Other
References
External links

Novels
 First
Title Date Notes
publisher
Typee: 1846 John Murray purchased the English rights to print 1000 copies for £100. It first
A Peep at Murray appeared in two parts in Murray's Home and Colonial Library, Part I,
Polynesian February 26, 1846; Part II, April 1, 1846. Four thousand copies of the first
Life edition of the book were printed.

The American rights were purchased by Wiley & Putnam after

John Murray had agreed to publish the book in England, so
that the credit of having first recognized Melville belongs to
Murray's London publishing house. It appeared in book form
in 1846 simultaneously in New York and London, being one
of the first works to be published in this manner.

The Sequel, containing "The Story of Toby", was written in

July, 1846, and incorporated in the Revised Edition published
in the same year. Extracts from the Sequel were also
published prior to its appearance in book form. In England,
John Murray paid an additional £50 for the Sequel, which was
first printed as a small pamphlet in an edition of 1250 copies,
and subsequently incorporated in the book.

Reprinted:

New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1847; Harpers, 1849 (new copyright,
printed from original plates); 1850; 1855; 1857; 1865; 1871; 1876; Arthur
Stedman, Ed., 1892; 1896; W. Clark Russell, Ed., 1904; Ernest Rhys,
Ed., 1907; W. Clark Russell, Ed., 1911; A. L. Sterling, Ed., 1920;
Ernest Rhys, Ed., 1921.
Boston: Arthur Stedman, Ed., 1900; 1910; 1919; W. P. Trent, Ed., 1902.
London: John Murray, 1847 (1000 copies); 1848 (1000 copies); 1850;
1855 (750 copies); 1861; 1866; 1877 (500 copies); 1893 (1000 copies) ;
Routledge, 1855 (6000 copies) ; 1910; H. S. Salt, Ed., 1892; 1898,
1899; W. P. Trent, Ed., 1903; W. Clark Russell, Ed., 1904; 1910; Ernest
Rhys, Ed., 1907; 1921.

Omoo: 1847 John The manuscript was written in 1846, and the book was published in March,
A Narrative Murray 1847. In England, John Murray paid £150 for the copyright. Together with
of Typee, Omoo was one of the earliest works to be published simultaneously
Adventures in New York and London. The first English edition consisted of 4000 copies.
in the South
Seas The Harper Brothers published in New York the same year. In
their catalog for 1847 the book was advertised: "Muslin $1.25,
paper $1.00." In 1849 Harper advertised: "In two parts 50
cents each, or complete in muslin gilt $1.25."

Reprinted:

New York: Harpers, 1847 (four re-printings); 1855; 1863; 1868; Arthur
Stedman, Ed., 1892 (new copyright); 1896; H. Clark Russell, Ed., 1904;
1911; Ernest Rhys, Ed., 1908, 1921.
Boston: Arthur Stedman, Ed., 1900; 1910; 1919.
London: John Murray, 1848 (1000 copies); 1849; 1850; 1861 (1000
copies); 1866; 1877 (500 copies); 1893 (1000 copies); Routledge, 1855
(6000 copies); 1910; H. S. Salt, Ed., 1892; 1893; H. Clark Russell, Ed.,
1904; 1911; Ernest Rhys, Ed., 1908; 1921.

Mardi: 1849 Richard The novel appeared in two volumes on March 16, 1849, in London (1000
And a Bentley copies), and on April 14, 1849, in New York in three volumes. It was the
Voyage first Melville book published in England by Bentley. Raymond Weaver
Thither stated that up to February 22, 1850, 2154 copies were sold.

Reprinted:

New York: Harpers, 1855; 1864.

Redburn: 1849 Harper & The manuscript was written in New York during the summer of 1849. The
His First Brothers book appeared on August 18, 1849, in New York, and on September 29,
Voyage 1849, in London (750 copies). Weaver stated that up to February 22, 1850,
4011 copies were sold.

Reprinted:

New York: Harpers, 1850; 1855; 1863.

London: Bentley, 1853.

White- 1850 Richard The manuscript was written in New York City during the summer of 1849. In
Jacket; Bentley November of that year Melville went to London to dispose of it. Richard
or, The Bentley offered £200 for the English rights to print 1000 copies. The
World in a manuscript was refused by Murray, Colbour, and Moxon. Finally, in
Man-of-War December, Bentley confirmed his previous offer, and accepted the
manuscript for publication at the end of March, 1850 (1000 copies). The
American Harpers edition came after the English.

Reprinted:

New York: Harper, 1855; Arthur Stedman, Ed., 1892; 1896.

Boston: Arthur Stedman, Ed., 1900; 1910; 1919.
London: 1855; 1892; 1893; 1901.

Moby-Dick; 1851 Richard The manuscript was written at Arrowhead, Massachusetts, in 1850–1851
or, The Bentley and was first published in October, 1851. In England Richard Bentley
Whale agreed to pay £150 for the first 1000 copies, and half profits thereafter. The
American edition (Harpers: 1 volume) is subsequent to the English (3
volumes, 500 copies) and contained thirty-five passages omitted from the
English edition. The published price was $1.50.

Reprinted:

New York: Harper, 1863, Arthur Stedman, Ed., 1892; 1896. Another
edition, 1892; 1899; Ernest Rhys, Ed., 1907; 1921. Dodd Mead, 1922.
Boston: Arthur Stedman, Ed., 1900; 1910; 1919.
London: Bentley, 1853; L. Becke, Ed., 1901; Ernest Rhys, Ed., 1907;
1921. Another edition, 1912; Viola Meynell, Ed., 1920; 1921.

Pierre; or, 1852 Harper & The manuscript was written at Arrowhead, Massachusetts, from late 1851
The Brothers through early 1852 and was first published in August, 1852. Copies issued
Ambiguities in England in November of that year consist of the American sheets, with a
cancel title = Pierre : Or The Ambiguities. By Herman Melville.
London:Sampson Low Son and Co., 47 Ludgate Hill. 1852.[9]
Isle of the 1853 Unpublished Rejected by Harper & Brothers in June 1853 and since lost or destroyed.[10]
Cross
[11]

Israel 1855 G. P. Published in April 1855, by Putnam, having previously appeared serially in
Potter: Putnam & Putnam's Monthly Magazine, July 1854 – March 1855.) A pirated edition
His Fifty Co. was published under the title The Refugee in Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson,
Years of 1865.
Exile
 The 1857 Dix, Published in April, 1857.
Confidence- Edwards &
Man: Co.
His
Masquerade
Billy Budd, 1924 Constable Edited by Raymond Weaver. Published posthumously as Billy Budd,
Sailor Foretopman, part of a sixteen volume edition of Melville's Complete Works
(An Inside for the London publisher. A second text, F. Barron Freeman Ed., was
Narrative) published in 1948, as Melville's Billy Budd by the Harvard University Press.
In 1962, Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr., established what is
now considered the text closest to Melville's intentions; published by the
University of Chicago Press as Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative).

Short stories
The publication dates of Melville's stories in no way correspond to their dates of composition; with editorial
considerations, such as length vs. amount of space available, usually determining when they would appear.
The Piazza Tales was the only collection of Melville's stories published under his direct supervision. The
volume sold slowly in spite of generally favorable notices. Its publishers, Dix & Edwards, dissolved their
partnership in 1857 and, it appears, paid the author no royalties on either this book or their other published
title of his, The Confidence Man. The plates were put up for sale at publishers' auction but attracted no
bidders. As one editor commented, "no one would risk a dollar on Melville."[12]

The plates were subsequently sold for scrap. In 1922, during the Melville revival, there was a complete
resetting of the book for its publication in the Constable edition of Melville's Complete Works. That same
year saw the Princeton University Press issue a collection of the remaining known stories under the title
The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches. The final two stories in the list were discovered in the box
turned over to biographer Raymond Weaver by Melville's granddaughter (the same box which yielded Billy
Budd) and appeared in the final Constable volume titled Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces.[13]
 First
Publication
Title published Notes
date
in
"Bartleby, the November– Putnam's Collected in The Piazza Tales (1856)
Scrivener" December Monthly
1853 Magazine
"Cock-A- December Harper's Collected in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches (1922) by
Doodle-Doo!" 1853 New Princeton University Press, which includes the essay, "Hawthorne
Monthly and His Mosses" (1850), and contains an introductory note by
Magazine Henry Chapin. Internet Archive has four versions of the scanned
book.[14]
"The March–May Putnam's Collected in The Piazza Tales. Melville received a monthly payment
Encantadas, 1854 Monthly of $50 for each of the three installments for a total of $150.[15] He
or Enchanted Magazine received no additional payment from the Piazza Tales because the
Isles" collection never generated any royalties.[16]
"Poor Man's June 1854 Harper's Collected in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches
Pudding and New
Rich Man's Monthly
Crumbs" Magazine
"The Happy July 1854 Harper's Collected in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches
Failure" New
Monthly
Magazine
"The August Putnam's Collected in The Piazza Tales
Lightning-Rod 1854 Monthly
Man" Magazine
"The Fiddler" September Harper's Collected in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches
1854 New
Monthly
Magazine
"The April 1855 Harper's Collected in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches
Paradise of New
Bachelors Monthly
and the Magazine
Tartarus of
Maids"
"The Bell- August Putnam's Collected in The Piazza Tales
Tower" 1855 Monthly
Magazine
"Benito October– Putnam's Collected in The Piazza Tales
Cereno" December Monthly
1855 Magazine
"Jimmy November Harper's Collected in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches
Rose" 1855 New
Monthly
Magazine
"The 'Gees" March 1856 Harper's Collected in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches
New
Monthly
Magazine
"I and My March 1856 Putnam's Collected in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches
Chimney" Monthly
Magazine
"The Apple- May 1856 Putnam's Collected in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches
Tree Table" Monthly
 Magazine
"The Piazza" 1856 The The only story specifically written for the collection
Piazza
Tales
"The Two 1924 Billy Budd Originally rejected by Harper's because it might offend religious
Temples" and Other sensibilities,[17] it was subsequently printed from manuscript as a
Prose part of Constable's Works, Raymond Weaver editor[13]
Pieces
"Daniel 1924 Billy Budd First printed in London, Volume 13 of Constable's Works[18]
Orme" and Other
Prose
Pieces

Poetry
Melville's reputation as a poet rose dramatically in the late 20th century. After the disastrous publication of
The Confidence-Man in 1857, Melville turned to the writing of poetry. Virtually ignored by the public and
scorned by reviewers, he nevertheless persevered in this endeavor for the next 30 years. Early biographers
conveyed the perception of Melville as a novelist who dabbled unsuccessfully in verse. Despite early
claims for him as one of the three best American poets before 1900,[19] histories of American poetry for
many years all but ignored him. The neglect was partly because until the Northwestern-Newberry edition,
the poetry was available only in incomplete "complete" editions, selections, reprints, and editions of
individual titles—most of these out of print, few of them textually reliable, and all of them together falling
well short of completeness. "That Melville was a poet only in prose is a truth almost universally
acknowledged among his critics, one guaranteed to endure as long as the poems remain unavailable in a
complete, reliable edition."[20]

In July 2009 Northwestern-Newberry released Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville Vol. 11
(https://web.archive.org/web/20111028181731/http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/Title/tabid/68/ISBN/0-
8101-2605-2/Default.aspx) the most complete collection to date, containing substantial scholarly notes on
individual poems. The final volume (12), Billy Budd and Other Later Manuscripts contains the
unpublished poems.[21] The fact remains that Melville wrote fiction for 11 years, poetry for over 30.
Although it is true he wrote more prose than poetry, the same can be said of Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot
both of whom wrote less verse than Melville did. With Clarel he wrote one of the longest poems in the
English language. If one includes the poems contained in his novels his entire poetic oeuvre approaches the
size of Lord Byron's or Robert Browning's.
[22]

Collections
 First
Title Date Notes
publisher
Poems 1860 Unpublished Melville tried to have his early collected poems printed in 1860, offering them
to two publishers who rejected the work. The contents of the volume were
then lost or dispersed into later works.[23]
Battle 1866 Harper 1200 copies were printed of which only 486 were sold by February 13, 1868.
Pieces Bros. In the seven years that followed, only eleven additional copies were sold.[24]
and Published price: $1.75. The book was not issued in England. Melville states
Aspects that "with few exceptions, the pieces in this volume originated in an impulse
of the War imparted by the fall of Richmond..." Of the poems included in this volume,
the following had already appeared in magazines:

"The March to the Sea," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February 1866.
"The Cumberland," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1866.
"Philip," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, April 1866.
"Chattanooga," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, June 1866.
"Gettysburg: July, 1863," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July 1866.

The work was Melville's last commercially funded publication of

any sort.[20] He lost $400 on the volume.

Clarel: A 1876 G. P. 2 volumes; published price $3.00. The book was not issued in England.
Poem and Putnam's Published in July 1876 at the expense of Melville's uncle, Peter Gansevoort.
Pilgrimage Sons The manuscript had been in existence for some time.[1]
in the
Holy Land
John Marr 1888 The De The volume contains 19 poems. The edition was privately printed and limited
and Other Vinne Press to 25 copies.[1] Princeton University press issued an edition in 1922 edited
Sailors by Henry Chapin.[25]
Timoleon 1891 The Caxton The volume contains 43 poems, was privately printed and limited to 25
Press copies.

Single poems
"The Admiral of the White," published in 1885 in both the New York Daily Tribune and the
Boston Herald.[26]

Uncollected or unpublished in Melville's lifetime

Weeds and Wildings, with a Rose or Two (1924) A book of poems written for his wife and
dedicated to her. Unpublished at the time of his death although a fair copy had been made
by Elizabeth Melville for the printer. First published in Volume 16 of the Constable edition of
Melville's Works (London 1924), then reprinted in a somewhat different order and form in
Collected Poems of Herman Melville, Chicago 1947.[27][28]
"Epistle to Daniel Shepherd" – first published in Herman Melville: Representative
Selections, Willard Thorp, Ed. (New York, 1938).[29]

The following were first published in Collected Poems of Herman Melville, Howard P. Vincent Ed.
(Chicago 1947):
 "Inscription for the Slain at Fredericksburgh" [sic]
"The Haglets" (an expansion of "The Admiral of the White")
"To Tom"
"Suggested by the Ruins of a Mountain-temple in Arcadia"
"Puzzlement"
"The Continents"
"The Dust-Layers"
"A Rail Road Cutting near Alexandria in 1855"
"A Reasonable Constitution"
"Rammon"
"A Ditty of Aristippus"
"In a Nutshell"
"Adieu"

Essays
The following essays were uncollected during Melville's lifetime:

"Fragments from a Writing Desk, No. 1" (Democratic Press, and Lansingburgh Advertiser,
May 4, 1839)
"Fragments from a Writing Desk, No. 2" (Democratic Press, and Lansingburgh Advertiser,
May 18, 1839)
"Etchings of a Whaling Cruise" (New York Literary World, March 6, 1847)
"Authentic Anecdotes of 'Old Zack'" (Yankee Doodle, II, excerpted September 4, published
in full weekly from July 24 to September 11, 1847)
"Mr Parkman's Tour" (New York Literary World, March 31, 1849)
"Cooper's New Novel" (New York Literary World, April 28, 1849)
"A Thought on Book-Binding" (New York Literary World, March 16, 1850)
"Hawthorne and His Mosses" (New York Literary World, August 17 and August 24, 1850)

Other
Correspondence, Ed. Lynn Horth. Evanston, IL and Chicago: Northwestern University Press
and The Newberry Library (1993). ISBN 0-8101-0995-6
Journals, Ed. Howard C. Horsford with Lynn Horth. Evanston, IL and Chicago: Northwestern
Univ. Pr. and The Newberry Library (1989). ISBN 0-8101-0823-2

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External links
Works by Herman Melville bibliography in eBook form (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/h
erman-melville) at Standard Ebooks
An omnibus collection of Melville's short fiction (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/herm
an-melville/short-fiction) at Standard Ebooks
The Life and Works of Herman Melville (http://www.melville.org/download.htm) (last revised
July 2000)
 Works by Herman Melville (https://www.gutenberg.org/author/Herman_Melville) at Project
Gutenberg
The Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville (http://www.nupress.
northwestern.edu/content/herman-melville-author) – All of Melville's writings published with
extensive notes and commentary
A Checklist Of Herman Melville's First and Major Editions (https://www.abaa.org/member-arti
cles/a-checklist-of-herman-melvilles-first-and-major-editions)
Collecting Herman Melville (https://www.williamreesecompany.com/pages/articles/49/collect
ing-herman-melville) by William S. Reese, 1993
Melville's marginalia (http://melvillesmarginalia.org) A virtual archive of books Melville
owned or borrowed and a digital edition of books he marked and annotated.

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