Short story by Herman Melville

Produced by: Craft Printing House, 2025

The Fiddler is one of Herman Melville's lesser-known short stories originally published anonymously in the years following the completion of Moby Dick.

Excerpt from the text: "Once fortune poured showers of gold into his lap, as showers of laurel leaves upon hisbrow. To-day, from house to house, he hies, teaching fiddling for a living. Crammed once with fame, he is now hilarious without it. With genius and without fame, he is happier than a king."

This chapbook measures 4"x6" and is 24 pages printed letterpress on Mohawk superfine text weight paper. An edition of 26 lettered copies are bound in red and yellow book cloth on board. An edition of 100 are numbered and hand-stitched in paper covers with Colorplan 270gsm turquoise wraps. The type is 8 point Monotype Bodoni 175 cast using a Welliver interface connected to a Lanston Monotype Composition Caster. The titling is 18 point Monotype DeVinne cast on a Lanston Monotype Sorts caster. Decorative border and ornamentation cast on a Linotype Model 31 and a Ludlow Typograph. All casting was accomplished at the C.C. Stern Type Foundry. Printed at Craft Printing House. Bound with guidance and assistance from Jules Remedios Faye.