Miller vs. Parker by Publisher, Date, and Weight

                          Miller's Biography of Melville                                          Parker's Biography of Melville

Publisher            Persea Books                                                                 Johns Hopkins University Press

Date                  1975                                                                               1996, 2002 (two volumes published six years apart)

Pages overall     382                                                                                 1951

Preface               3 pages                                                                          18

Body Text           351 pages                                                                     883+923 = 1806

Source List          5 pages                                                                      16+30 = 46 primary + secondary 7+16 = 23 T= 62

Index                   5 pages                                                                        58