The raven, and the philosophy of composition / by Edgar Allan Poe ; illustrated from paintings by Galen J. Perrett ; the decorations by Will Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, author.

Contributor:

Perrett, Galen J., artist.

Jenkins, Will, illustrator.

Nash, John Henry, 1871-1947, printer.

Paul Elder and Company, publisher.

Tomoyé Press, printer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric.

English language.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Arches (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[45] leaves : portraits, plates ; 27 cm

Edition:

Quarto photogravure edition

Manufacture:

New York : Tomoyé Press

Other Title:

Philosophy of composition

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Paul Elder and Company, [1907]

Notes:

Title in red and black; added illustrated title page.

Colophon: Here ends The raven, a poem, and The philosophy of composition, a prose essay; the poem and the essay by Edgar Allan Poe, the photogravure illustrations from paintings by Galen J. Perrett, the initials and decorations by Will Jenkins, the typography designed by J.H. Nash. Of this first quarto photogravure edition one thousand copies have been issued, printed on Arches handmade paper. Published by Paul Elder and Company and done into a book for them at the Tomoye Press, New York City. Finished this tenth day of July, in the year nineteen hundred and seven.

1000 copies.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

OCLC:

228697124