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(CHELONIIDAE PRESS.) Poe, Edgar Allen. The Raven.

FIRST BOOK OF THE PRESS (CHELONIIDAE PRESS.) Poe, Edgar Allen. The Raven. 5 etchings and 2 wood engravings by Alan James Robinson, all Signed. Folio, black cloth spine over marbled boards resembling open wings; signed prospectus laid in; 1/4 morocco clamshell box (Easthampton, 1980)

  • Notes: number 9 of 100 copies of the regular edition, with a set of two wood engravings laid in. An additional full size signed drawing of the raven, a Signed state proof, and a Signed portrait of Poe are laid in. Robinson produced this sumptuous first book using 19th-century methods of handmade inks, papers, and glue, hand-set type, and hand-marbling. Considered by some critics to be one of the finest examples of letterpress printing and illustration of poetry created in the last fifty years.
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