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Collection: Melville Book Boxes

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(MBB 3.1) -- Reproduction of Claude’s etching Sunrise in Melville’s copy of Georges Duplessis, The Wonders of Engraving

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Tags: Duplessis (Georges); English language; Etching; Lorrain (Claude); Maritime subjects; Solar Effects

(MBB 2.3; Fig. 1) -- Melville marks Raphael’s Saint Cecilia in his copy of Valery’s Travels in Italy

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(MBB 1.4; Fig. 1) -- Eleanor Melville Thomas at her Grandfather's Writing Desk.

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(MBB 2.2) -- Frontispiece in Herman Melville’s copy of Dante Alighieri, The Vision: or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

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Tags: Dante; English language; Italian Renaissance authors; Morghen (Raphael); Portraits; Tofanelli (Stefano); William Reese Collection

(MBB 2.1) -- Finden after Turner. The Walls of Rome (Tomb of Caius Sestus)

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Tags: Ancient Rome; Architecture and Archeology; Burial Ground; Cemetery; Cityscapes; English language; Finden (Edward); HM "Shelley's Vision"; HM "Time's Betrayal"; HM Journals; Houghton Library (Harvard University); Life and Works of Lord Byron (c. 1853); Steel engraving; Turner (J. M. W.)

(MBB 1.4; Fig. 2) -- Vedder. Cover of Melville's copy of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

MBB 1.4 fig 1 vedder cover from HCL phoptp HM copy jpg copy.jpg

Tags: Cosmic revelation; English language; Houghton Library (Harvard University); Literary Illustrations; Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; Vedder (Eilhu)

(MBB 1.4) -- Vedder. The Sorry Scheme in Melville's copy of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

MISC MBB 1.4 vedder sorry scheme houghton jpg copy.jpg

Tags: Angels; Animals; English language; Houghton Library (Harvard University); Literary Illustrations; Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; Vedder (Eilhu)

(MBB 1.3; Fig. 1) -- Discussion of Lützelburger on pages 146 & 147 of The Wonders of Engraving

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(MBB 1.3) -- Lützelburger after Holbein the Younger. The Duchess from The Dance of Death

MBB 1.3 surrogate duplessis holbein duchess from SAM.jpg

Tags: Bed chambers; Death (as persona); Duplessis (Georges); English language; HM Clarel; HM Journals; Holbein (Hans the Younger); Houghton Library (Harvard University); Lützelburger (Hans); Wonders of Engraving (1871); Woodcut engraving

(PT Ancient Greece and Near East; Fig. 1) -- Penza. Model of Temple Sirius, Malta.

WAO 1.1. A. Penza. Model of the Temple Sirius on Malta. BA. Photo Dick Degenhardt..jpg

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