1885 Rare Book - The Poetical Works Of EDGAR ALLAN POE.

 

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Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Title : The Poetical Works Of EDGAR ALLAN POE. With a prefatory notice, biographical and critical, by Joseph Skipsey. 
Publisher : London, The Walter Scott Publishing, no date (circa 1885).
Language : Text in English
Size : 6 " X 4.5 "
Pages : 288 pages.
Binding : Attractive and very good full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed, spine slightly sunned) under a protective removable mylar cover. 
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing and staining, including a nice bookplate from The Book Society at Crag Pit House).

The book : Nice Victorian edition of the Poems by Edgar Allan Poe. Including also The Fall of the House of Usher. 

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 a financially difficult life and career.