TitleNouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires et Histoires Grotesques et Sérieuses D'Edgard Allan Poe; Bois originaux de Fernand Siméon
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
Editing placeParis
EditorialEditions D’Art Édouard Pelletan; Helleu et Sergent, Éditeurs
Year1924
IllustratorFernand Siméon, Jules Léon Perrichon
Edition typeAnthology (translation)
TranslatorCharles Baudelaire
LanguageFrench
LibraryBUCLM 821-3 POE his (1-2)
Volumes2
Number of pages372
Size (in cms)21,1 x 15,7
Works included
A Tale of Jerusalem
Berenice
Eleonora
Epimanes (Four Beasts in One)
Hop-Frog
King Pest. A Tale Containing an Allegory
Landor´s Cottage
Life in Death (The Oval Portrait)
Lionizing
Maelzel's Chess Player
Shadow - A Parable
Silence - A Fable
Some Words with a Mummy
The Angel of the Odd
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
The Devil in the Belfry
The Domain of Arnheim
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
The Man of the Crowd
The Masque of the Red Death
The Philosophy of Furniture
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Power of Words
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Tell-Tale Heart
William Wilson
Works illustrated
A Tale of Jerusalem
Berenice
Eleonora
Epimanes (Four Beasts in One)
Frontispiece
Hop-Frog
King Pest. A Tale Containing an Allegory
Landor´s Cottage
Life in Death (The Oval Portrait)
Lionizing
Maelzel's Chess Player
Shadow - A Parable
Silence - A Fable
Some Words with a Mummy
The Angel of the Odd
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Colloquy of Monos and Una
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
The Devil in the Belfry
The Domain of Arnheim
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
The Man of the Crowd
The Masque of the Red Death
The Philosophy of Furniture
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Power of Words
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
The Tell-Tale Heart
William Wilson
Bibliographic referencesDROST 121, 159, 171, 180, 207, 219, 226-227; GONZÁLEZ MORENO 143; POLLIN 76-77 (184)
DescriptionIt includes thirty tales and an essay in translation by Charles Baudelaire, the preface "Notes nouvelles sur Edgar A. Poe" by the same author and the letter he sent to Maria Clemm.
It contains a wood engraving portrait of Poe by Jules Léon Perrichon from a painting by Samuel Stillman Osgood and thirty-one illustrations (one heading for each tale) designed and wood engraving by Fernand Siméon; it also includes an extra vignette for "Maelzel's Chess Player", a heading for "Histoires Grotesques et Sérieuses," and numerous colophons, most of a decorative nature. In total, fifty-eight woodcuts. Title page in two inks and illustrated; Duplicate in paperback.
Issue no. 237 printed at the Coulouma press in Argenteuil under the direction of H. Barthélemy (August 1924) on Vergé d'Arches paper.
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