The Eerie Book

edited by Margaret Armour

illustrated by W.B. MacDougall 

First edition.  London:  J. Shiells & Co., 1898  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD++ condition.

• White covers are mostly clean, with black ink text and illustration.  Boards show a little edgewear.  Corners are a little bowed.  See photos.   
• Spine has black text and is bright with bumped ends.
• Binding is strong.  
• Pastedowns and feps have some light foxing, staining, some cataloguer's marks. 
• Ephemera, a publisher's announcement, is inside the front cover.
• Illustrations are bright and clear, plates are inserted.  
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have deckle fore and foot edges, gilt along head, some pages remain unopened, deckle edges are foxed.  See photos. 
• PS2026.0618

211 pages. 6 x 10 inches

First Edition.  Publisher's white buckram boards with illustrated title stamped in black on top board and spine.  Title page printed in orange and black.  A collection of sixteen selections from Edgar Allan Poe, Catherine Crowe, Mary Shelley, and others.  With fifteen full page illustrations by William Brown MacDougall, inserted into the binding.  A very attractive copy, the uncommon white boards very fresh, with unmarked interior and signs of age confined to the end papers and text block edges.  Scarce in the first edition.

Edited by Margaret Armour (1860-1943), translator, poet, and playwright.  This anthology features classic gothic authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Thomas de Quincey, and Hans Christian Andersen, and includes stories such as those by Catherine Crowe (from Ghosts and Family Legends 1858) which are virtually impossible to find elsewhere.  Armour was married to the artist W.B. MacDougall (1868-1936), and they collaborated on a number of titles for which he made the illustrations. 

Printed by W.H. White and Co. Ltd., Riverside Press, Edinburgh. 

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