Magasin 1892 EDGAR ALLAN POE POÈMES LIVRE ANCIEN RARE HORREUR GOTHIQUE MACABRE OCCULTE CORBEAU

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Ca. 1892

The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe

With Memoir by J. H. Ingram

And Nathaniel Parker Willis "Death of Edgar Allan Poe"

Includes Poes Critical Essay on the Poetic Principle, The Raven, The Haunted Palace, The Bells, Lenore, Ulalume, Fairy-Land, Tamerlane, and many others

Exceptionally Clean ~ Rare Victorian Antique Book ~ Decorative-Cloth Publishers Binding ~ Engraved Portrait ~ Macabre ~ Gothic ~ Occult ~ Horror ~ Supernatural ~ Mysticism ~ Magic ~ Ghosts ~ Ghouls ~ Spirits ~ Hell ~ Nightmares ~ Poetry

Publisher:

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. / John W. Lovell Company, no date, circa 1892.

This book was published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., which had “purchased the entire stock of J.W. Lovell's Printed Sheets of Poets.”

Features:

Measures 7.4 x 5.25 inches.

Original decorative-cloth publisher's binding: brown cloth with ornate embossed black and gold-gilt stamping.

Textblock all edges gilt.

Frontispiece with tissue guard.

Red-line border to all pages.

260 pages.

Condition:

Near Fine (Near Mint).

The covers are exceptionally crisp, clean, and bright with slight scuffing to the corner tips and spine ends. The textblock is solid and square and the pages are very clean and bright. Small, minor smudge to the margin of pages 150–151. Old ink name and location dated 1895 to the front free endpaper. No other writing or marking.