The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

ALLAN POE, Edgar.

Item Number: 3260

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902.

Octavo, 10 volumes. One of fifty numbered set, this is number 49 of The Connoisseur’s edition. Full leather, gilt tooling to the spine, front and rear panels. Gilt ruled to the front and rear gutter, dentilles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, raised bands. In very good condition with some wear to the joints.

Edgar Allan Poe was the author of dozens of acclaimed works including "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven," few writers have shaped the course of literature as did Edgar Allan Poe. "His influence has been incalculable in both verse and prose on later writers 'This finest of finest of artists,' Bernard Shaw has called him" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 625). Edited and chronologically arranged on the basis of the standard text, and with a critical introduction by Charles F. Richardson. Coburn's illustrations for Poe and Dickens contributed to his early success. With numerous woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials.