Poe Edgar Baudelaire Charles Velghe (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First printing of this edition. Text by Edgar Allan Poe translated into French by Charles Baudelaire with original lithographs by Anne Velghe. Jésus quarto solander box (407 x 302mm) velour-covered and stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. The unbound 4pp sections are loosely held in a vellum wrapper. The illustrations by Anne Velghe are printed directly from the lithographic stone. The edition was limited to 360 numbered copies of which nos. 151-350 are "bound" in red velour solander boxes. This is number 215 which, in addition to being signed by the artist has been personalised with the written message: "à Monsieur Olich de Foer et son èpouse, en souvenir de leur amitie pour mon père, Anne Velghe." Wire-stabbed 12pp descriptive leaflet in light card folder laid-in together with a 4pp folded leaflet describing Les Editions Le Creuset.

Leather. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Anna Velghe (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce Limited Edition of this revenge tale from Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated and signed by the artist Anne Velghe, and housed in a beautiful half calf box. Translated into French by Charles Baudelaire. The first edition thus, only 360 copies of this work were produced, of which numbers 21 to 150 were placed in this half calf box - styled to look like a large book - numbered, signed by the artist, and with the publisher's blind stamp to the limitation page. This copy is no. 105A beautifully illustrated edition of this short tale from Edgar Allan Poe, one of Poe's memorable revenge stories in which a murderer apparently escapes without punishment a dwarf court jester, who kills his king.Illustrated by artist Anne Velghe, with five double page and eight full page illustrations, accompanied by fourteen vignette illustrations. Of the two prints taken from her original lithographic stone called for, only one is present.A beautifully illustrated and very scarce signed Limited Edition of this short horror story from Poe, first published in 1849. Unbound, as issued. Housed in a half calf box, with marbled paper boards. Light rubbing to box board extremities and back strip head, otherwise, externally lovely. Signed and numbered to limitation page, with publisher's blind stamp to title page and limitation page. Pages exceptionally bright and clean. One tissue guard lightly creased to perimeters. Fine. signed by author. book.