Title: The city in the sea
Description: "This edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The City in the Sea", boasts an original Elies Plana linoleum fold-out. It was printed in the Granja Gràfica printing studios. This edition consists of 72 copies. 66 copies numbered from 1 to 66, and 6, numbered from I to VI, for contributors. The text's typography is in Weiss Italic and Helvetica. Everything was printed in a Korrex Berlin proof press on Biblos, Guarro vellum paper. The first time people read the poem "City in the Sea," was in 1831, in Edgar Allan  Poe's book, Poems. It was published under the title "The Doomed City". Five years later, in 1836, another version was published in the literary magazine, Southern Literary Messenger. Its title was "The City of Sin." It wasn't until the year 1845 that the poem was published as "The City in the Sea". First, in April in the American Review and later, in August, in Broadway.  In 1850, a year after the death of Edgar Allan Poe, the editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold published "The City in the Sea" in the tenth edition of The Poets and Poetry of America, referring to it as one of the author's best poems" -- Elies Plana website, http://eliesplana.com/ last viewed 20170306.
Subjects: Artists' books, Cities and towns in art, In art, Poems (Poe, Edgar Allan)
Places: Spain, Barcelona
People: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)