The poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe
Subtitle: with original memoir
By: illustrated by F. R. Pickersgill ... John Tenniel, Birket Foster, Felix Darley, Jasper Cropsey, P. Duggan, Percival Skelton, and A. M. Madot.
Contributors: Pickersgill, Frederick Richard, 1820-1900.; Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914.; Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899.; Cropsey, Jasper Francis, 1823-1900.; Duggan, Patrick.; Skelton, Percival.; Madot, A. M. d. 1864.; Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895.; Cooper, James Davis, 1823-1904; Linton, W. J. 1812-1897.; Green, W. T., fl. 1837-1872.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Hammond, J., fl. 1860s.; Harral, Horace.; Thomas, William Luson, 1830-1900.; Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903.; Rogers, W. Harry 1825-1873.; Warren, Albert Henry, 1830-1911; Vincent Brooks, Day & Son; Leighton, Son and Hodge
Edition: New illustrated edition.
Publisher: Ward, Lock, and Tyler
Published: 1871
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Other titles: Poetical works of Edgar Poe :
Notes: Date taken from English Catalogue of books.

Preface signed "E. A. P." [i.e. Edgar Allan Poe].

Memoir dated 1857.

Includes "Notes to Al Aaraaf": p. 161-167.

Illustrations engraved by J. Cooper, W. J. Linton, W. T. Green, E. Evans, Hammond, H. Harral, W. Thomas, and J. Whymper.

Illustrations produced "Under the Superintendence of Joseph Cundall.".  Head-pieces, tail-pieces and initial letters by W. Harry Rogers and engraved by E. Evans.  Illustrations are the same as those in 1858 edition published by Sampson Low, Son & Co., with some additional head-pieces and tail-pieces.  See McLean O 489.

MASS copy 1: Bound in red patterned sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  With a central sunken mandorla-shaped panel design on the front cover set with a pastel blue paper onlay blocked in gold with the titling.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  Spine with imprint: "Ward, Lock & Tyler".  With binder's ticket: "Bound  by  Leighton  Son and Hodge.".  With presentation inscription from Fianach Lawry to Ruari McLean dated 1960. Binding design possibly by Albert Henry Warren.  The central part of the front cover design of this binding was also used for "The promises of Jesus Christ / Illuminated by Albert H. Warren, [between 1861 and1866], but with a different spine design signed "AW" [i.e. Albert Henry Warren].  See McLean O 49.5.

MASS copy 2: Bound in green patterned sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind in the same design and with the same sunken mandorla-shaped panel design on the cover as copy 1, but with a red paper onlay blocked in gold with the titling.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  Spine lacks publisher's imprint as found on copy 1.  Centre of back cover with an additional blocking in blind of a monogrammatic design, possibly the publisher's device.  With later ownership inscription: "Fianach Lawry".
Table of contents: title: Memoir of the Author; title: Miscellaneous poems; title: Poems written in youth.