TitleEl escarabajo de oro y otros cuentos
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
Editing placeMadrid
EditorialEdiciones Generales Anaya
Year1983
IllustratorArthur Rackham, Aubrey Beardsley, George Antoine Marie Rochegrosse, Harry Clarke, Hermann Vogel [Wögel], Justo Barboza Colantonio
Edition typeYouth edition (translation)
TranslatorJulio Gómez de la Serna
LanguageSpanish
LibraryFGM
Volumes1
Number of pages256
Size (in cms)19,5 x 13,5
Works included
The Gold-Bug
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt. A Sequel to ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’
The Purloined Letter
Works illustrated
Portrait
The Black Cat
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 Rogêt. A Sequel to ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’
The Purloined Letter
Bibliographic referencesPOLLIN 6 y 111; RIGAL 25-26
DescriptionSecond edition (the first from 1981). An anthology of four stories included in the collection «Tus libros. Policíacos». Translation by Julio Gómez de la Serna, introduction and appendix by Juan José Millás, and black and white illustrations by Hermann Vogel, Aubrey Beardsley, Harry Clarke, George Antoine Marie Rochegrosse, and Arthur Rackham. It also includes a portrait of Poe engraved by Justo Barboza Colantonio and a color illustrated cover (it duplicates one of the illustrations from «The Gold-Bug»).
Vogel's illustration first appeared in Paris: Quantin, 1884; Beardsley Four, Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1894-95; Clarke's two, in London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1919 and 1923; Rochegrosse's nine, engraved by Rita Dreyfus, Beltrand, R. Blot and C. C., in Le Scarabee d'Or (Paris: Librairie des Amateurs. A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud, 1926); and both from Rackham, in London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1935.
