The Bells and Other Poems. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. London: Hodder, [1912]. First Edition. Publisher’s original elaborately gilt decorated cloth; patterned endpapers. A nice bright copy.

Illustrated with 28 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards, with an additional 10 duo-tone in-text illustrations.

French-British artist Edmund Dulac, a leading figure of the Golden Age of illustration, created this gift book for Hodder & Stoughton. His illustrations masterfully combine gloomy and pearlescent tones, perfectly matching the eerie blend of horror and sentimentality in Poe’s verse.