POE, Edgar Allan. The Poetical Works… with a Notice of his Life and Genius by James Hannay. Lo

POE, Edgar Allan. The Poetical Works… with a Notice of his Life and Genius by James Hannay. London: Addey and Co., 1853. First London edition, 8vo (167 x 103mm.) Wood-engraved frontispiece and vignettes in the text. (Toning, occasional light spotting, lacking publisher’s advertisements and preliminaries before frontispiece.) Near contemporary half burgundy morocco, g.e. (heavily rubbed, fading to covers). – And a further sixteen miscellaneous volumes (including Wilkie Collins’s ‘The Queen of Hearts’, 1862, 8vo, and William Buchan’s ‘Domestic Medicine: or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines’, 1779, 8vo) (17).