The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Including the Choicest of His Critical Essays. Now First Published In This Country. With A Study on His Life and Writings, from the French of Charles Baudelaire [Fore-Edge Painting].

POE, Edgar Allan.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Including the Choicest of His Critical Essays. Now First Published In This Country. With A Study on His Life and Writings, from the French of Charles Baudelaire [Fore-Edge Painting].

First edition of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe With A Study on His Life and Writings, from the French of Charles Baudelaire; Finely Bound with a double fore-edge painting

London: Chatto and Windus, Publishers, [1872].

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First edition of this collection of Poe's tales paired with a study of his life a writings by Baudelaire. Octavo, bound in full green morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated with scenes, portraits, and facsimiles including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Poe. With a double fore-edge painting of Poe and several macabre scenes. In near fine condition. Embossed stamp.

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, American Romantic writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the genre of detective fiction and contributing to the genre of science fiction, only just emerging at the turn of the 20th century. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career and his works influenced literature around the world, as well as specialized fields such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe's most memorable tales include: The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Gold-Bug, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, and The Tell-Tale Heart.