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Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale #OTD in 1851.

He first proposed the British publication in a June 27, 1850. At the end of May 1851, he delivered the bulk of his manuscript. In the October 1851 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine The Town Ho's Story was published, with a footnote reading: "From The Whale. The title of a new work by Mr. Melville, in the press of Harper & Brothers, & now publishing in London by Mr. Bentley."

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Title page of the first edition of en:Moby-Dick, 1851. Source: Beinecke Library.
Illustration from an early edition of Moby-Dick
Augustus Burnham Shute - Moby-Dick edition - C. H. Simonds Co
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