Prose Tales / Edgar Allan Poe
Book
354 pages. Illustrations, 3 leaves of plates.
Contents: The fall of the House of Usher -- Ligeia -- The gold bug -- The black cat -- The murders in the Rue Morgue -- The mystery of Marie Roget -- The purloined letter -- The masque of the red death -- MS. found in a bottle -- A descent into the maelstrom -- The pit and the pendulum -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar.
2015.7.267
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1900s
6 in
4 in
Edgar Allan Poe
New York
New York
United States
North America
circa 1900
Publisher's Binding- White Spine, Floral
Bound in a wide white cloth spine stamped in elaborate gilt design. With pictorial paper covered boards to half of cover in flowers printed in orange, brown, purple and green against a white background. Binding represents a style which was extremely popular at the turn of the century noted for white spines and repeating small flower patterns in calico-like cloth or paper - obviously marketed to the feminine buyer.
No publication date. Gift inscription: Eva Alice Meigs June 21st, 1900