THE BELLS AND OTHER POEMS BY EDGAR ALLAN POE 1912 BAYNTUN RIVIERE FINE BINDING

[POE, EDGAR ALLAN]. The Bells and other Poems. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912].

FIRST 'EDMUND DULAC' EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; quarto (28 x 22 x 4 cm); unpaginated. English text, printed on heavy paper (printed by the esteemed Henry Stone and Son, Banbury). Beautifully bound in black crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere; covers with single line border enclosing inner panel with bell device; spine in six compartments (Bells device in 4, lettering in 2); all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; half-title; 28 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards; with an additional 10 duo-tone in-text illustrations; plus a title-page portrait vignette; Book Society bookplate designed by Dulac to front pastedown; original bell-patterned endpapers bound in at the rear. Condition: FINE. An absolutely immaculate example.