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Lot 90

Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022 5:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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[Fine Bindings] Poe, Edgar Allan The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe with Biographical Essay by John H. Ingram

Philadelphia: George Barrie, Publisher, no date. In six volumes. #29/250 sets of the Large Paper Library Edition, printed on Imperial japan paper. Illustrated with "twenty original etchings, five photogravures and a new etched portrait", all printed in two states. Contemporary unsigned binding of full crimson levant, decorated in gilt, joints dry; red levant doublures with teal crushed levant onlay; moire silk endleaves; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed.

This set, edited by Ingram, was first issued in London in 1884, in four volumes, by John C. Nimmo (BAL 16166).

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