POE, Edgar Allan - THE WORKS OF THE LATE EDGAR ALLAN POE, WITH A MEMOIR AND NOTICES OF HIS LIFE..

Published by Redfield, New York, 1856.

Early printings of the first collection of prose and verse works by Edgar Allan Poe; Vol. I II and III first published in 1850, as sets of two (1850), three (1851) and finally four volumes (1856), the set being early editions of the first three volumes and presumably a first edition of Vol. IV. With a portrait frontispiece, and a facsimile letter laid in. All four volumes signed by A. W. Thomson (1827-1881), a Confederate Chief Surgeon for South Carolina. Foxing to each volume, and heavy spotting to Volume IV; minor shelf wear, and spines moderately sunned. Plum colored cloth, with gilt lettering and designs. Top edge of Vol. I and II gilt. A Very Good set overall when one considers that not very many of these sets surface intact in the publisher's cloth. The set is now housed in a custom open-ended brown cloth slipcase with a large Morocco label.