MELVILLE HERMAN Two volumes the first Signed H Melville NY

BOOKS FROM HIS LIBRARY WITH HIS MARGINALIA MELVILLE, HERMAN. Two volumes, the first Signed, "H. Melville / N.Y.," on the front free endpaper, and annotated throughout with over 100 holograph words, both with numerous holograph underlines and marginal paragraph markers, in pencil: Juvenal and Persius. The Satires * Euripides. The Tragedies, vol. III. The inscribed text, mostly in first volume, mostly short phrases written on blanks or in lower margins. Each volume inscribed with place name on front free endpaper: the first: "C[ape] H[orn] 2"; the second: "C[ape] Horn." The books, the only remaining volumes from the 37-volume Harper and Brothers set, Classical Library, purchased from the publisher by Melville on March 19, 1849, as recorded in the firm's account statement (Sealts 147; 207a vol. 3 only; 304.1). 2 volumes, 12mo, publisher's cloth, chipping at edges with some loss to backstrip ends, repairs to backstrip of first; moderate foxing throughout first, rear blank of first lacking. New York: Harper, [1848?]; 1848; inscriptions: "Cape Horn [Chile]," circa 1860