1885 Rare Book - The POEMS Of EDGAR ALLAN POE & An Essay on His Poetry by ANDREW LANG.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe: Andrew Lang.
Title: The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe with an essay on his poetry by Andrew Lang.
Publisher: London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885.
Language: Text in English.
Size : 7 " X 4 ".
Pages : xxvi-172 pages.
Binding: Very good original full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, some light offsetting of a removed newspaper clip on 2 pages - as shown, name of a previous owner on the first endpaper).
Illustrations: Including the beautiful frontispiece Raven by Edward Linley Sambourne.
The book: Rare and attractive Victorian edition of the Poems by Edgar Allan Poe with the essay on his poetry by Andrew Lang.
The author: Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in financially difficult life and career.