TitleTales of Mystery, Imagination, and Humour. Second Series of “Readable Books”. Illustrated with Sixteen Engravings on Wood
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
Editing placeLondon
EditorialClarke, Beeton & Co.
Year1853
IllustratorJulian Portch
Edition typeAnthology (English)
Translator
LanguageEnglish
LibraryBUCLM 821-8 POE tal
Volumes1
Number of pages252
Size (in cms)16,2 x 11
Works included
A Dream
A Dream within a Dream
A Sucession of Sundays (Three Sundays in a Week)
Dream Land
Landor´s Cottage
Sonnet – Silence
The Assignation
The Black Cat
The City in the Sea
The Coliseum
The Conqueror Worm
The Domain of Arnheim
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Philosophy of Composition
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Sleeper
The Spectacles
The Unparalleled Adventure of one Hans Pfaall
The Valley of Unrest
Thou Art the Man
To F... S S. O... D (To Frances S. Osgood)
To Helen Whitman
William Wilson
Works illustrated
A Sucession of Sundays (Three Sundays in a Week)
Landor´s Cottage
The Assignation
The Black Cat
The Domain of Arnheim
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Spectacles
The Unparalleled Adventure of one Hans Pfaall
Thou Art the Man
William Wilson
Bibliographic referencesDROST 29, 106, 262-263; GONZÁLEZ MORENO 112, 141; POLLIN 112 (397); RIGAL ARAGÓN-GONZÁLEZ MORENO 6, 30-32, 144-145, 155, 158, 161, 165
DescriptionIt completes in the same series the first volume Tales of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor; and Poems. Illustrated with Twenty-Six Engravings on Wood (London: Henry Vizetelly, 1852).
With respect to the previous volume, this adds another eleven tales, eleven poems, and an essay ("The Philosophy of Composition") accompanied by sixteen woodengravings. Neither the essay nor the poems have illustrations. The design corresponds to Julian Portch and the woodengraving to George Pike Nicholls.
Half leather binding.
