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1RATBAG.
Would anyone happen to know if Edgar Allan Poe's entire bibliography was ever collected in an omnibus?
What do you think is the most deluxe/lush Poe edition out there? :)
What do you think is the most deluxe/lush Poe edition out there? :)
2Niurn
The Tartarus Press Macabre Tales had a good success around here last year :
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3housefulofpaper
The most comprehensive editions I know of are the two Library of America volumes, Poetry and Tales and Essays and Reviews.
The Folio Society edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination (published 1999 and reprinted 2007) and the Tartarus Press The Macabre Tales are both based on a 1919 edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination published by George Harrap & Co. The selection of stories is different in both editions. They both reprint Harry Clarke's illustrations but only Tartarus includes colour illustrations. The Folio Society book perhaps looks more luxurious as it's printed on heavier paper and the boards are covered in buckram and has an inset paper label.
I've also got another volume entitled Tales of Mystery and Imagination and The Complete Poems. Both of these are leather-bound books from Easton Press but what I now know is that they are reprints from Limited Editions Club volumes published in the 1940s. The originals were, I understand, larger in format and the illustrations would be colour (or subtly toned and printed) lithographs and the text is letterpress.
So, the Harrap & Co and LEC books are the most deluxe volumes I know of.
But I'm sure that there are a lot of very desirable Poe volumes out there. It would be good to learn about them. (Folio produced a chunky little edition of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym a few years ago, for example).
Books discussed shown below, with an appropriate CD for scale.
The Folio Society edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination (published 1999 and reprinted 2007) and the Tartarus Press The Macabre Tales are both based on a 1919 edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination published by George Harrap & Co. The selection of stories is different in both editions. They both reprint Harry Clarke's illustrations but only Tartarus includes colour illustrations. The Folio Society book perhaps looks more luxurious as it's printed on heavier paper and the boards are covered in buckram and has an inset paper label.
I've also got another volume entitled Tales of Mystery and Imagination and The Complete Poems. Both of these are leather-bound books from Easton Press but what I now know is that they are reprints from Limited Editions Club volumes published in the 1940s. The originals were, I understand, larger in format and the illustrations would be colour (or subtly toned and printed) lithographs and the text is letterpress.
So, the Harrap & Co and LEC books are the most deluxe volumes I know of.
But I'm sure that there are a lot of very desirable Poe volumes out there. It would be good to learn about them. (Folio produced a chunky little edition of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym a few years ago, for example).
Books discussed shown below, with an appropriate CD for scale.
4astropi
3: nice collection! If you have not done so, get the beautiful LEC Poe - the Easton Press edition is a facsimile. Also the Easton Famous Editions of "The Bell and Other Poems" is a lovely facsimile of the wonderful Dulac-illustrated edition.
5jroger1
The most luxurious edition of “Tales of Mystery and Imagination” that I have seen was copyright in 1982 by Oxmoor House in Birmingham, Alabama, and published by Southern Living Gallery “exclusively for members of The Southern Classics Library.” It is leatherbound with a ribbon marker and page edges gilded on all sides, very much like a better-than-average Easton or Franklin Edition. It contains the Harry Clarke illustrations with the color ones tipped in and protected with tissue paper. It measures 8.5” x 10.5” and is quite heavy.
Easton Press published a Deluxe Limited Edition in 2014 called “Poe Stories and Poems” and limited to 1,200 copies. It contains 8 color illustrations by John Jude Palencar but only contains 8 of Poe’s most popular stories and 3 poems. It measures 9” x 11” and is leatherbound with an attractive cover design and a slipcase.
Chartwell published a book in 2010 that was later bound in leather and marketed by Easton Press titled “The Raven and Other Poems”. It measures 9” x 12” and contains numerous full-page illustrations by Gustave Dore.
Easton Press published a Deluxe Limited Edition in 2014 called “Poe Stories and Poems” and limited to 1,200 copies. It contains 8 color illustrations by John Jude Palencar but only contains 8 of Poe’s most popular stories and 3 poems. It measures 9” x 11” and is leatherbound with an attractive cover design and a slipcase.
Chartwell published a book in 2010 that was later bound in leather and marketed by Easton Press titled “The Raven and Other Poems”. It measures 9” x 12” and contains numerous full-page illustrations by Gustave Dore.
9kdweber
I don't think it's complete but there is the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (1930), 495 pages, designed and illustrated by W. A. Dwiggins, part of the 1926 RR Donnelley (The Lakeside Press) famous Four American Books promotional campaign - 1000 copies.
My favorite Poe edition might be Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Imprimerie Ara Neenne (Paris, France) for Charles Breyner Art Publications (1950), Hardcover, 187 pages, engravings and ornaments by J. G. Daragnes, 3/4 leather with matching hand marbled boards and end papers - 1000 copies.
Finally, a great book about Poe: Edgar Allan Poe: The Man That Was Used Up by the Centipede Press (2009) - 200 copies.
My favorite Poe edition might be Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Imprimerie Ara Neenne (Paris, France) for Charles Breyner Art Publications (1950), Hardcover, 187 pages, engravings and ornaments by J. G. Daragnes, 3/4 leather with matching hand marbled boards and end papers - 1000 copies.
Finally, a great book about Poe: Edgar Allan Poe: The Man That Was Used Up by the Centipede Press (2009) - 200 copies.
10Niurn
>3 housefulofpaper: "with an appropriate CD for scale"
The latest Philipp Glass, nice ! Track 2 "Coerced to look" ? ^^
I wish i had the appropriate HiFi system to listen to that.
The latest Philipp Glass, nice ! Track 2 "Coerced to look" ? ^^
I wish i had the appropriate HiFi system to listen to that.
11Glacierman
>1 RATBAG.: Poe's complete works were published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. The first volume, his poetry, was published in 1969. Vols. 2 and 3, containing his tales and sketches, were published in 1979.
Regarding fancy editions, I have a copy of an 1930's Tudor Publishing reprint of the Harrap edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination and am content.
Regarding fancy editions, I have a copy of an 1930's Tudor Publishing reprint of the Harrap edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination and am content.
