TitleTales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
Editing placeNew York
EditorialThe Heritage Press
Year1941
IllustratorWilliam Sharp
Edition typeAnthology (English)
Translator
LanguageEnglish
LibraryFGM
Volumes1
Number of pages366
Size (in cms)25,8 x 17,5
Works included
A Descent into the Maelström
A Predicament
Berenice
Eleonora
Hop-Frog
Life in Death (The Oval Portrait)
Ligeia
Metzengerstein
Morella
MS. Found in a Bottle
Shadow - A Parable
Silence - A Fable
The Assignation
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Devil in the Belfry
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Gold-Bug
The Masque of the Red Death
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget. A Sequel to ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’
The Oblong Box
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
William Wilson
Works illustrated
A Descent into the Maelström
Hop-Frog
Ligeia
Metzengerstein
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Devil in the Belfry
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Gold-Bug
The Masque of the Red Death
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget. A Sequel to ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’
The Oblong Box
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Tell-Tale Heart
William Wilson
Bibliographic referencesDROST 127-128, 143-144, 158, 208, 268-269; GONZÁLEZ MORENO 144; POLLIN 12, 280 (1366)
DescriptionIt includes an introduction by Vincent Starrett and twenty-nine tales accompanied by sixteen photogravures after the aquatints of William Sharp. These aquatints were first printed for The Limited Editions Club (limited edition of 1500 copies); later, they were reproduced in photogravure for the 30,000 copies of The Heritage Club. The photogravures were made by the Photogravure and Color Company of New York.
Each page has been printed in two inks (black and English vermilion) by the Riverside Press (Cambridge, MA) on Saturn paper from the Crocker-Burbank Company (Fitchburg, MA).
Quarter-bound linen with French Putois marbled paper sides and title in gold on the spine. The volume is presented in a case.
Arthur Paul Betz's bookplate.
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