[32 pp.] Brown cloth, gilt titles and decorations with silver, blue, and dark brown accents on front board, all edges gilt, burgundy endpapers. Engraved illustrations by W.L. Taylor throughout. A mysterious talking raven pays a visit to a man who is distraught from the loss of his lover. The man, aching over the death of his dear Lenore, is upset and distressed by the bird who repeats one word: Nevermore. Steeped in stylized, but dark prose and written in an almost musical style Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven is a bleak, mesmerizing journey through one man's depression and madness.
