TitleVingt Histoires Extraordinaires par Edgar Poë
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
Editing placeParis
EditorialLe Livre de Plantin
Year1927
IllustratorAlméry Lobel-Riche
Edition typeAnthology (translation)
TranslatorCharles Baudelaire
LanguageFrench
LibraryBUCLM 821-3 POE vin
Volumes1
Number of pages335
Size (in cms)33 x 25,5
Works included
A Descent into the Maelström
Berenice
Hop-Frog
Life in Death (The Oval Portrait)
Ligeia
Lionizing
Metzengerstein
Morella
Shadow - A Parable
Silence - A Fable
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Gold-Bug
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
The Man of the Crowd
The Masque of the Red Death
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Power of Words
The Tell-Tale Heart
Works illustrated
A Descent into the Maelström
Berenice
Hop-Frog
Life in Death (The Oval Portrait)
Ligeia
Lionizing
Metzengerstein
Morella
Portrait
Shadow - A Parable
Silence - A Fable
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Gold-Bug
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
The Man of the Crowd
The Masque of the Red Death
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Power of Words
The Tell-Tale Heart
Bibliographic referencesPOLLIN 78 (192)
DescriptionIt includes twenty tales translated by Charles Baudelaire and illustrated with forty drypoints and etchings by Alméry Lobel-Riche, with two illustrations for each story (one as a heading at the beginning of each narrative, accompanying the initial letter, and another full-page illustration). In addition, the frontispiece includes a portrait of Edgar Allan Poe alongside a smaller portrait of the illustrator.
This is copy number 99 of a numbered and limited edition of 197 copies. The edition was completed on October 15, 1927, at the printing house of A.-G. L'Hoir, a Parisian master printer. The engravings were printed by Victor Viennois.
The edition is completed with a second volume containing several versions and preparatory models of the final engravings.
This is an unbound copy.
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