Front cover image for The poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe : with original memoir

The poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe : with original memoir

Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Clay (Printer), James Davis Cooper (Wood engraver), Jasper Francis Cropsey (Illustrator), Joseph Cundall, Felix Octavius Carr Darley (Illustrator), Peter Paul Duggan (Illustrator), Edmund Evans (Wood engraver), Myles Birket Foster (Illustrator), Hammond (Wood engraver), Horace Harral (Wood engraver), W. J. Linton (Wood engraver), Adolphus M. Madot (Illustrator), Frederick Richard Pickersgill (Illustrator), Percival Skelton (Illustrator), John Tenniel (Illustrator), William Luson Thomas (Wood engraver), Albert Henry Warren (Cover designer), National Art Library (Great Britain). Harrod Collection, Sampson Low, Son & Co (Publisher)
Print Book, English, 1858
Sampson Low, Son & Co., 47, Ludgate Hill, London, 1858
Bindings
xxix, [3], 247, [3] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
1008030262
Memoir of Edgar Allan Poe
Miscellaneous poems
Poems written in youth
The poetic principle
Copy [A] rebound ca. 1952 in red cloth (library binding) retaining original cloth from upper and lower boards
Copy [B] bound in red morocco grain cloth; elaborate ornamental pattern gilt-stamped; floral pattern embossed; white silk moiré endpapers
Copy [B] part of the Harrod Collection
Cuts incl. initials, head and tail-pieces, and cover designed by A.H. Warren
Engravings by J. Cooper, W.J. Linton, E. Evans, Hammond, H. Harral, W. Thomas, under the superintendence of Joseph Cundall
Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe engraved by J. Cooper after a daguerreotype
Publisher's emblem on title page