Colophon
Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories published between and by
Herman Melville.
This ebook was produced for
Standard Ebooks
by
Robin Whittleton,
and is based on transcriptions produced between and by
Dave Maddock, Josephine Paolucci, Joshua Hutchinson, Chris Whitehead, Mary Glenn Krause, David Edwards, Eric Lehtonen, and Distributed Proofreaders
for
Project Gutenberg
and on digital scans from the
Internet Archive.
The cover page is adapted from
A Rooster with Hens and Chicks,
a painting completed in by
Albertus Verhoesen.
The cover and title pages feature the
League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
typefaces created in and by
The League of Moveable Type.
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