1896 Rare Fordham edition book set - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated. In six volumes.
(Description)
Author: Edgar Allan Poe. Introduction and Memoir by Richard Henry Stoddard.
Title: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. The Fordham Edition. In six volumes.
Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1896. The Fordham Edition. It was first issued in 1884, this is the second issue, published in 1896. This second issue is the first to include the essays and memoirs by American critic and poet Richard Henry Stoddard.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5" X 5".
Pages: Over 3000 pages.
Binding: Attractive and near fine original full-cloth binding with spines richly gilt (hinges fine - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Near fine content (bright, tight, and clean - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with a beautiful frontispiece to each volume. Volume I has six additional folding facsimile plates. Volumes II and IV both have an additional full-page plate.
Estimate: (USD 1500 - USD 2000).
The book: A very beautiful complete six-volume set of the 'Fordham' edition. The Fordham edition was produced to lighten Poe's dark, mysterious image with the reading public. Contains: Vol. I. The genius and life of Poe, by R.H. Stoddard. Edgar Allan Poe, by James Russell Lowell. Death of Edgar A. Poe, by N.P. Willis. The poetic principle. The rationale of verse. Miscellaneous poems. Poems written in youth - Vol.II Tales, First Series - Vol III Tales, Second Series - Vol IV Tales, Third Series - Vol. V Essays & Biographies, First Series - Vol. VI. Essays & Biographies, Second Series.
The author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole. Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. His works are known for their macabre and mysterious themes, and he is also credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
