Poe translated by Baudelaire, illustrated by Lobel-Riche

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Author: Poe, Edgar Allan

Title: Vingt Histoires Extraordinaires

Place Published: Paris

Publisher:Le Livre de Plantin

Date Published: [1927]

Description:
336 pp. Translated into French by Charles Baudelaire. Illustrated with 41 original etchings, including frontispiece by Lobel-Riche + 40 additional plates of different states of the etchings. 32.7x24.5 cm (13¼x9½"), three-quarter red morocco ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled boards, top edge gilt, matching marbled endpapers, title page printed in red and black, original wrappers for suite of plates bound in rear. One of 156 copies on Arches wove paper. No. 91 of the total edition of 197.

Etchings, all bound in, comprise:

Pure etchings of the twenty full-page plates.
The state with remarques.
The black state of the initials with remarques
Finished state.

 

The twenty stories comprise:

Le Scarabée d'Or 
Une Decente Dans le Maelstrom 
Ligeia 
Metzengerstein 
Le Démon de la Perversité 
Le Chat Noir 
L'homme des Foules 
Le Cœur Révélateur
Morella
Bérénice
Le Puite et le Pendule
Hop-frog
La Barrique d'Amontillado
L'île de la Fée
Lionnerie
Le Masque de la Mort Rouge
Puissance de la Parole
Ombre
Silence
Le Portrait Ovale