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Standard Edition. No. 48 of 750 sets, numbered and initialed by the publisher. Printed at the Edinburgh University Press. 16 vols. 8vo. The definitive edition of this great American author’s works, publication of which contributed materially to the renewal of interest in Melville’s writings. Vol. 13 constitutes the first edition of Billy Budd and other prose pieces, edited by pioneering Melville biographer Raymond Weaver. Vol. 12, The Confidence Man, includes a bibliography of first editions of Melville’s prose writings compiled by Michael Sadleir. BAL 13680 & 13682. Provenance: red morocco bookplate of Lucy Smith Battson in each volume Full red hard-grain morocco with decorative gilt tooling, spine tooled and lettered in gilt amid raised bands, board edges tooled, ornamented gilt dentelles, t.e.g. Three headcaps with tiny scuffs, neatly repaired, front joint of Billy Budd with traces of rubbing. A fine set, superbly bound Printed at the Edinburgh University Press. 16 vols. 8vo Standard Edition. No. 48 of 750 sets, numbered and initialed by the publisher.…