first edition Unbound
1879 · [New York
by (POE, Edgar Allen, William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Burns, Charles Dickens, and others)
[New York: Ralph Trautmann, 1879. Unbound. Near Fine. Portfolio. Twenty engraved plates and one contents card laid into a four-fold chemise of leather over watered silk. The engraved cards are nicely printed on either white or pale pink cards measuring 5" x 7" with rounded corners and gilt edges. The engraved cards are bright and about fine with the author's name penciled neatly in a tiny hand on the unprinted verso (and one with a small penciled note on the front); contents card a trifle foxed with one tiny edge nick. Housed in the worn remains of the four-fold chemise that is lacking several panels, including the front cover. We located a couple of (truncated)