[POE, EDGAR ALLAN]. The Poetical Works. Edited by James Hannay. With Illustrations by E. H. Wehnert, James Godwin, F. W. Hulme, Harrison Weir, and Anelay. London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1852.
'Complete Edition'. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (17cm x 12cm x 2.5cm); pp. [xxxii], 191. English text, edited by James Hannay. Publisher's stunning deluxe binding of leather backed lacquered and bevelled wooden malachite-style boards; gilt titling and decoration on the spine and gilt border decoration with an illustration of a gold raven perched on a head on the front board; all page edges gilt; white moire endpapers; half-title present; twenty-seven illustrations including a frontispiece and circular vignette of Edgar Allan Poe by E.H. Wehnert, James Godwin, F.W. Hulme, Harrison Weir and Anelay. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, the joints and hinges intact. Covers very well-preserved with some trivial wear to extremities. Contents fresh and clean. Without previous ownership markings. Scarce deluxe edition.
Notes: A collection of the poetical works of the famous American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Dated from the introduction. It also contains an account of his life and work by James Hannay. Here presented in the publisher's rare deluxe binding of wooden-lacquered boards with leather spine decorated in gilt.
