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The works of Edgar Allan Poe : printed on Nelson's India paper ; complete in three volumes / [with introductions, recollections of Poe by Richard Henry Stoddard ; biography, contemporary estimates by Lowell and Willis, notes, and illustrations]

PS2600 .F05 1905

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.
Contributor:: Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903, Author of introduction, etc.; Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867, Author of afterword, colophon, etc.; Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891, Author of afterword, colophon, etc.; Rare Books Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)
Series:: New century library.; New century library
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.; Poe, Edgar Allan.
Genre:: Fiction -- 19th century.; Poetry, Modern -- 19th century.; Bible papers (Paper)
Physical Description:: 3 v. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Place of Publication:: New York : T. Nelson & Sons, c1905.
Contents:: v. 1. Introduction; Meetings with Poe; Facsimile of a portion of a letter from Poe to F.W. Thomas; Edgar Allan Poe; The unparalleled adventure of one Hans Pfaall; The gold-bug; Four beasts in one; The murders in the Rue Morgue; The mystery of Marie Roget; The balloon-hoax; Ms. found in a bottle; The oval portrait; The purloined letter; The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade; A descent into the maelstrom; Von Kempelen and his discovery; Mesmeric revelation; The facts in the case of M. Valdemar; The black cat; The fall of the House of Usher; Silence, a fable; The masque of the red death; The cask of Amontillado; The imp of the perverse; The island of the Fay; The assignation; The pit and the pendulum; The premature burial; The domain of Arnheim; Landor's cottage; William Wilson.; v. 2. Introduction; Facsimile of a portion of a letter from Lowell to Poe; Life of Edgar A. Poe; The tell-tale heart; Berenice; Eleonora; Ligeia; Morella; A tale of the ragged mountains; The spectacles; King Pest; Three Sundays in a week; The devil in the belfry; Lionizing; X-ing a paragrab; The narrative of A. Gordon Pym; Metzengerstein; The system of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether; The literary life of Thingum Bob, Esq.; How to write a Blackwood article; A predicament; Mystification; Diddling; The angel of the odd; Mellonta tauta; The Duc de L'Omelette.; v. 3. Introduction; Facsimile of verse by N.P. Willis; The death of Edgar Allan Poe; The oblong box; Loss of breath; The man that was used up; The business man; The landscape garden; Maelzel's chess-player; The power of words; The colloquy of Monas and Una; The conversation of Eiros and Charmion; Shadow, a parable; Philosophy of furniture; A tale of Jerusalem; The sphinx; Hop-frog; The man of the crowd; Never bet the devil your head; Thou art the man; Why the little Frenchman wears his hand in a sling; Bon-bon; Some words with a mummy; The poetic principle; Old English poetry; Poems.
Local Notes:: Athenaeum copy: Athenaeum's volumes bear labels on upper pastedown: "Frank Jakob, Jr...., Collingswood, N.J."; Athenaeum copy: Gift of Lowell and Richard Booth.
OCLC:: 38208248

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The works of Edgar Allan Poe : printed on Nelson's India paper ; complete in three volumes / [with introductions, recollections of Poe by Richard Henry Stoddard ; biography, contemporary estimates by Lowell and Willis, notes, and illustrations]

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