Title: Original proof illustration from Moby Dick Author: Kent, Rockwell Place: Publisher: Date: c.1930 Description: Original photo-lithograph on paper. Tipped to matting, framed. Overall 40x29.5 cm (15¾x11¾") Original full page photo-lithograph proof from Rockwell Kent's famed illustrations for the 1930 Lakeside Press edition of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Hailed by many as the greatest illustrated book of the 20th century. The image here was used as the full-page illustration on page 37 of Volume 2 (Captain Ahab, 19x13 cm). Unsigned. On the reverse is a proof printing of the text and illustration from Volume 1, page 142; in the published book the reverse of the full page illustrations are blank . Lot Amendments Condition: Not archivally framed, some matt burn from prior framing; near fine. Item number: 246979
Title: Original proof illustration from Moby Dick Author: Kent, Rockwell Place: Publisher: Date: c.1930 Description: Original photo-lithograph on paper. Tipped to matting, framed. Overall 40x29.5 cm (15¾x11¾") Original full page photo-lithograph proof from Rockwell Kent's famed illustrations for the 1930 Lakeside Press edition of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Hailed by many as the greatest illustrated book of the 20th century. The image here was used as the full-page illustration on page 37 of Volume 2 (Captain Ahab, 19x13 cm). Unsigned. On the reverse is a proof printing of the text and illustration from Volume 1, page 142; in the published book the reverse of the full page illustrations are blank . Lot Amendments Condition: Not archivally framed, some matt burn from prior framing; near fine. Item number: 246979
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