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POE (Edgar Allan). Extraordinary stories. - New extraordinary stories. Translated by Charles Baudelaire. Paris: A. Quantin, 1884. - 2 volumes in-8, 229 x 149: portrait, XXXII, 382 pp. (1 f.), 12 plates, illustrated cover; frontispiece, (4 ff. first blank), XIX, 410 pp. (1 f.), 12 plates, illustrated cover. Brown half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, spine decorated with mosaic macabre decorations in frames of two gilt fillets, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Vermorel). First illustrated edition, with 26 out-of-text compositions, 13 in each volume, by Abot, Daniel Vierge, François-Nicolas Chifflart, Wögel, Jules Férat, Herpin, Jean-Paul Laurens, Fortuné Louis Méaulle and Meyer, including 20 etchings and 6 heliogravures. One of 100 numbered copies on japon, including two states of the hors-texts, avant la lettre on japon and état terminé on papier vergé. A very fine copy in slightly later bindings with macabre decoration by Vermorel. Some wear to hinges and nerves.
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POE (Edgar Allan). Extraordinary stories. - New extraordinary stories. Translated by Charles Baudelaire. Paris: A. Quantin, 1884. - 2 volumes in-8, 229 x 149: portrait, XXXII, 382 pp. (1 f.), 12 plates, illustrated cover; frontispiece, (4 ff. first blank), XIX, 410 pp. (1 f.), 12 plates, illustrated cover. Brown half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, spine decorated with mosaic macabre decorations in frames of two gilt fillets, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (Vermorel). First illustrated edition, with 26 out-of-text compositions, 13 in each volume, by Abot, Daniel Vierge, François-Nicolas Chifflart, Wögel, Jules Férat, Herpin, Jean-Paul Laurens, Fortuné Louis Méaulle and Meyer, including 20 etchings and 6 heliogravures. One of 100 numbered copies on japon, including two states of the hors-texts, avant la lettre on japon and état terminé on papier vergé. A very fine copy in slightly later bindings with macabre decoration by Vermorel. Some wear to hinges and nerves.
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