![]() ![]() I brought it back to Paris and it proudly adorns my shelves (if not posing for this blog’s pictures). It took me some time to get back there and finally buy this book I was dreaming of. The book in itself is worth buying: large format, clothbound, gilded cover… It is beautiful.įor the little story I first saw it in a Dover Publications shop in London (now closed, RIP), when I was a penniless intern. ![]() So who’s Harry Clarke then? He was an Edwardian book illustrator and artist and he did a wonderful work illustrating Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination.Ī few years ago, Calla Editions – an imprint of Dover Publications – edited a reprint of the Tales of Mystery and Imagination with illustrations by Harry Clarke, initially published in a 1923 edition. Usually the title Tales of Mystery and Imagination is associated with Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote these famous dark short stories, now an American literature classic. ![]()
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