21 “No Lover Of Poe… Will Account The Arnheim Edition Superfluous” 19POE, Edgar Allan. The Complete Works. New York, 1902. Ten volumes. Octavo, publisher’s half vellum gilt. $6800 Limited “Collector’s Arnheim” edition, one of 300 sets, with 100 beautiful illustrations on Japan vellum paper—including 73 after paintings by Frederick Simpson Coburn. Few authors have shaped the course of literature as did Edgar Allan Poe. “Poe was the founder of the modern detective story… [as well as] the ablest critic of his time in America. In verse he achieved incomparable melodic effects… His influence has been incalculable in both verse and prose on later writers” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 625). With 73 plates illustrating the most dramatic moments in Poe’s poems and tales, after paintings by Canadian artist Frederick Simpson Coburn, later renowned for his landscapes. The New York Times praised this edition at its publication: “Handsomer books than these it has never been our pleasure to handle… One feels that no lover of Poe, no student of American literature, no collector will account the Arnheim edition superfluous.” Beautifully bound and in fine condition. “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways” 20BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Poetical Works. London, 1890. Six volumes. Small octavo, contemporary half red morocco. $2800 Handsomely bound, illustrated six-volume set of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poems, including her Sonnets from the Portuguese. Collected works of one of the most romantic figures of the 19th century, featuring her novel in verse Aurora Leigh as well as the beloved Sonnets from the Portuguese, along with her essays “Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets” and “The Book of the Poets.” Five of the volumes open with engraved frontispiece portraits of Elizabeth Barrett Browning at different stages of her life; other engravings picture her sitting-room at Casa Guidi, Coxhoe Hall, Hope End and her tomb, and volume IV includes a facsimile of the manuscript of “May’s Love.” Minimal rubbing to extremities; pages gently age-toned. A beautiful set.
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