Author: Poe, Edgar Allan.

Publisher: London: George Bell & Sons. New York: The Macmillan Co.

Format: Hardcover octavo with light green cloth boards decorated in gilt and green, gilt top and rough-cut edges, illustrated endpapers, previous owner’s neat inscription in ink on flyleaf, xxxii + 225pp, illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard and numerous illustrations throughout, 21 x 14cm.

First edition thus. Printed by Chiswick Press, London as part of George Bell’s Endymion Series. Introduction by H. Noel Williams.

Contains 104 illustrations by W. Heath Robinson (English, 1872–1944) as full-page illustrations, headpieces, tailpieces or decorated titles. These early illustrations by Robinson show a gothic Art Nouveau and Romantic style not usually associated with his work.

Bumping and rubbing to corners and spine heads, foxing and fading to spine, tanning to endpapers, top hinge starting to pull away, spots of foxing throughout but plates remain bright.