Photogravures protected by tissue overlay with red ink titles printed on them. Embellished not only with 60 photogravures but also a number of black and white figures (floral, bees, raven, etc). Remainder of text blocks clean, bright, and tight throughout. One spread in one volume has partial brown discoloration (apparently from something having been slipped in between the pages at some point, see photos). Gold text and details on spines as well as encircled authors initials on each front cover. Ten uniformly bound octavo volumes in original blue cloth. Putnam’s Sons, New York and London, the knickerbocker Press, 1902. Richardson, professor of English in Dartmouth College. With a critical introduction by Charles F. The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, In Ten Volumes with Sixty Photogravures, the Annabel Edition. Poe's most memorable tales include: The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Gold-Bug, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, and The Tell-Tale Heart.POE, Edgar Allan. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career and his works influenced literature around the world, as well as specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. A sharp set.īest known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, American Romantic writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the genre of detective fiction and contributing to the genre of science fiction, only just emerging at the turn of the 20th century. Octavo, 17 volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with tissue-guarded photogravures.
The Virginia edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by James A.
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