Description
First edition of The Works of Edgar Allen Poe: Tales of the Grotesque, in two volumes.
Octavo, [two volumes], cxxxi, 267pp; 403pp. Three-quarter blue morocco, blue cloth covered boards. Title in gilt on spines, five raised bands, gilt embellishments. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. No additional printings listed, Scribner’s seal on copyright page. Solid text block, rubbing to joints and corners, faint fading to endpapers.
Complete with five full-page plates in Volume I and four in Volume II, including a frontispiece with tissue guard in each.
Reissue of original Stone & Kimball imprint from 1895. (BAL 16168) An attractive set.
