DORE, Gustave (illustrator). - Edgar Allen POE. The Raven. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. Folio (467 x 358mm.) 26 plates by Gustave Doré.  A very atractivecopy still bright , with tight binding, rRecently profosionally re cased with new endpapers etc. Original pictorial cloth, (worn to spine with some losses prior to re casing). Provenance: M.A. Williams (gift inscribed to on the second blank).15" x 19" elephant folio,beautifully illustrated beveled boards depicts crouching angel holding key and candle with richly decorated, gilded wings. Pages and plates generally very good, clean; few with moderate discoloration, . Wood engraved frontispiece of Pallas w/busts of Poe and Doré designed by Elihu Vedder. Additionally, twenty-six full-page illustrated plates of Gustave Doré. Doré's mystical and chillingly macabre imagery illuminate Poe's eerie poem of sadness and longing for the dearest Lenore. Doré passed a year previous in January, 1883 after completing this, his last commission. With comment on Poe's narrative poem by Edmund C. Stedman. A Very good copy and fairly clean rarity for its age.