1887 Rare Victorian Book - Poems by Edgar Allan POE with Memoir (The Raven, Lenore, Ulalume, ...)

 

Author : Poe, Edgar, Allan
Title : The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe w/Memoir by J.H. Ingram.
Publisher : New York, Worthington Co., 1887.
Language : Text in English
Size : 8 " X 5.5 "
Pages : 267 pages
Binding : Attractive and very good Victorian full decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content  (tight and clean, foxing mainly on frontis portrait - as shown). 
Illustrations : Illustrated with a nice frontis portrait of Poe.

The book : Rare and Nice Victorian edition of the Poems by Edgar Allan Poe.

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.