Fore-edge painting; Paintings; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Painting on the fore-edge of ""The Works of Edgar Allan Poe."" Image of the protagonist of Pit and the Pendulum is based on illustration by Arthur Rackham. The figure appears gaunt and terrified, clad only in his ""wrapper of coarse serge."" ...
Painting on the fore-edge of ""The poetical works of William Cowper."" Image is based on ""The Diverting History of John Gilpin,"" a comic ballad by Cowper, about a man who lost control of his horse.
Painting on the fore-edge of ""Poems"" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow of the old burying ground at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts with portrait of Longfellow.