Weird Tales - 1 Author:Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Original Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons Description: With the exception of the last story, a selection of stories in the "Serapions-brüder." Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing tex... more »t. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: (JEntform Vuitf) tfjr ŠIB Spaniel) nut) d11flisl) llamantts.) To be completed in Twelve Volumei crovm Svo, cloth or parchment, 7. 6d. per volume, And Illustrated with Etchings by eminent Artists. THE TALES AND POEMS OF EDQAR ALLAN POE, With Biographical Essay by John H. Inqram ; and Fourteen Original Etchings, Tf1ree Photogravures, and a Portrait newly etched from a life-like Daguerreotype of the Author. In Four Volumes crown Svo. of tlje " A very handsome edition, in four volumes, of the Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Beyond the attraction of clear print, tine paper, and really good and appropriate illustrations, the edition is remarkable for containing the fragment called 'The Journal of Julius Rodman,' hitherto unpublished in any collection. Furthermore, it should be stated that in this new edition the works are for the first time intelligibly classified." -- Saturday Review. "The publisher has resolved to publish a series of volumes containing Romances of Fantasy and Humour, and he makes these four volumes the first of the series. He has spared no expense in getting up the books. The etchings are admirably conceived in the spirit of the author, and they help to make this, perhaps, the best edition of Poe that has hitherto been published." -- Scotsman. " Mr. Ingram is so well known for his great knowledge of Poe, and the services he has rendered to the poet's fame, that there in little need to dwell at length on the handsome and convenient...« less