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POE, Edgar Allan. The Tales and Poems. LIMITED EDITION.
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$300 - 400
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$1,386
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POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. London: John C. Nimmo, 1885.

4 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, titles printed in red and black, etched portrait frontispiece of Poe, 3 photogravures, and 12 proof etched plates on Japanese paper. (Slight marginal toning.) Contemporary half brown morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by W. Roach (some rubbing to sides, slight wear to extremities, a few hinges just starting). Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948), American poet, George Edward Woodberry scholar, Japanese print collector (engraved bookplates; gift inscription from Henry van Dyke on front flyleaf in vol. I, 1893). 

LIMITED EDITION, number 14 of 50 copies on laid paper for the American market. "This is the first occasion on which the Tales can be said to have been illustrated, as it is, also, the first time in which any real attempt has been made to classify them" (Preface, p.[v]).
Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York
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