The works of Edgar Allan Poe, with an introduction by Richard Henry Stoddard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

Contributor:

Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903, Author of introduction, etc.

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891, Author of introduction, etc.

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867, Author of introduction, etc.

Platt, Charles A. (Charles Adams), 1861-1933., Illustrator.

Gifford, R. Swain, (Robert Swain), 1840-1905., Illustrator.

Church, Frederick S. (Frederick Stuart), 1842-1924., Illustrator.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Physical Description:

6 v. fronts(port. in v. 1), plates, facsims. 19.9 cm.

Other Title:

Works of Edgar A. Poe

Place of Publication:

New York, A. C. Armstrong & Son [1884]

Contents:

v. 1. The genius and life of Poe, by R.H. Stoddard. Edgar Allan Poe, by James Russell Lowell. Death of Edgar A. Poe, by N.P. Willis. The poetic principle. The rationale of verse. Miscellaneous poems. Poems written in youth.

v. 2-3. Tales.

v. 4. Prose miscellanies.

v. 5. Eureka. Literary criticism, etc.

v. 6. Criticism.

Notes:

Illustrations by Charles A. Platt, R. Swain Gifford, Frederick S. Church, and others.

Heartman and Canny, p. 90.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in blue cloth; stamped in gold; top edges gilt; brown coated endpapers.

Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.

OCLC:

685820