Accession number
PML 89041
Creator
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Published
New York : W.J. Widdleton, Publisher, MDCCCLXIV [1864]
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
"Entered acccording to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by J. S. Redfield, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York"--verso of t.p.
"London:--Printed by Richard Clay, Bread Street Hill."--colophon
"Bound by Bone & Son. 76, Fleet Street. London"--binder's ticket inside lower cover.
Half title.
Fifty-three engraved illustrations most accompanied by blank guard sheets, and several head- and tail-pieces and decorated initials engraved by J. Cooper, W.J. Linton, W.T. Green, E. Evans, Hammond, H. Harral, W. Thomas, J.W. Whymper, after designs of John Tenniel, F.R. Pickersgill, Felix Darley, Jasper Cropsey, Birket Foster, P. Duggan, A.M. Madot, Percival Skelton, and W. Harry Rogers.
"To Hannah from Henriette Dec. 25th 1866 "Merry Christmas""--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
"London:--Printed by Richard Clay, Bread Street Hill."--colophon
"Bound by Bone & Son. 76, Fleet Street. London"--binder's ticket inside lower cover.
Half title.
Fifty-three engraved illustrations most accompanied by blank guard sheets, and several head- and tail-pieces and decorated initials engraved by J. Cooper, W.J. Linton, W.T. Green, E. Evans, Hammond, H. Harral, W. Thomas, J.W. Whymper, after designs of John Tenniel, F.R. Pickersgill, Felix Darley, Jasper Cropsey, Birket Foster, P. Duggan, A.M. Madot, Percival Skelton, and W. Harry Rogers.
"To Hannah from Henriette Dec. 25th 1866 "Merry Christmas""--inscription in black ink on fly-leaf.
Description
xxix, [3], 247, [1] p.: ill. (wood engravings) ; 23 x 17 cm
Provenance
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's red ribbon-embossed cloth, blocked in gold, signed AW (Albert Warren) on spine and lower board and bound by Bone & Son, with their ticket; with deckled edges and edges gilt.
Classification
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Department