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This NEW EDITION of an American literary masterpiece joins the genius of Herman Melville with the artistry of the distinguished designer and illustrator Warren Chappell. Chappell's more than seventy original drawings strikingly complement the epic grandeur of the Melville novel. Further enhancing this volume is an illuminating commentary by the Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural historian Howard Mumford Jones.
Text, notes, and a glossary of nautical terms prepared by Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker.
Blurb: A novel that explores the darkest depths and brightest hopes in the souls of men, Moby-Dick is an impassioned drama of the ultimate human struggle that the Atlantic Monthly called "the greatest of American novels."
About the Illustrator
WARREN CHAPpeLL, born in 1904 in Richmond, Vir-ginia, was trained as a draftsman, printmaker, and type designer at the Art Students League of New York, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and the Offen-bacher Werkstatt. He studied with Boardman Robin-son, Allen Lewis, and Rudolf Koch. Before attending art schools, he earned a B.A. at the University of Rich-mond, which awarded him an honorary D.F.A. in
1968. In 1970 his work in the graphic arts was recog nized by the Rochester Institute of Technology, with the presentation of their Goudy Award.
Since the publication of his first trade book in 1930, Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Chappell has designed hundreds of editions, illustrating many of them. Notable are his drawings for volumes of Shakespeare, Field-ing, Jane Austen, and Mark Twain. He has also done a series of children's picture books with musical
themes, three of which have been furnished with texts by John Updike. He is the designer of two type faces, Lydian and Trajanus, and the author of three books on the alphabet and printing: The Anatomy of Lettering (1935), A Short History of the Printed Word
(1970), and The Living Alphabet (1975). For more than thirty years, Chappell has been associated with the Book-of-the-Month Club as a graphic consultant.