Description
The Widdleton Edition of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Poe scholar John Ingram.
Octavo, [four volumes], clxxviii, 395pp, [3pp ads]; lxvi, 530pp; iv, 571pp, [5pp ads]; xi, 578pp. Maroon cloth, title stamped in gilt with trim on the spine. This work is the second issue of the 1876 Widdleton Edition, with a dedication to “Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman” appearing in Volume I. Rubbing to cloth boards, more notable in Volume III and IV. All with brown endpapers, solid text blocks. Some dust along margins and along top edge. Text clean and free of marginalia.
(Works of Poe Society, Baltimore, “Ingram Edition.”)
Frontispiece portrait in Volume I, with four additional plates.
The 1876 second issue of The Widdleton Edition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe, introduced new supplemental material, revised formatting, and a reordered volume sequence. Volume I was changed to Poems and Miscellanies and included a dedication to Sarah Helen Whitman, an account of the Poe memorial grave dedication, and Dr. John J. Moran’s 1875 New York Herald article on Poe’s death. New illustrations were added, including an engraving of the Poe monument and a frontispiece for “The Raven.”
