Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Complete with an Original Memoir

278, [2] pp. Half leather, gilt stamped titles and decorations, marbled page ridges and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Poe, full-page engraved illustration precedes text. A collection of poems by the author of Tamerlane and The Raven, who was also credited with the invention of the modern horror genre and the mystery novel.