Dalton James Forbe (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: In quite good condition. Octavo, [20cm/8inches], full quarter-bound camel-coloured cloth-backed faux-marbled robin's egg blue boards, sans dust jackets, [as issued], and and rather ratty spine labels, pp. 204; 201. Vol. I: "A Tale of the City," "Follow Your Nose" and "The Lodging House Bewitched". Volume II: The Old Maiden's Talisman" and 12pp. publisher's advertisements. The book was first published in England by Bull & Churton in 1834. There's a brief biography of Dalton on the Internet at http.//www.eapoe/people/daltonjf.htm. Edgar Allen Poe's review of Peter Snook is included in The Works of the Late Edgar Allen Poe, (1856) 4:4:392-408 and is available on the website of the Edgar Allen Poe Society of Baltimore.http.//www.eapoe.org/works/criticism/wrks4004.htm Poe summmed his quite lengthy review with: "The incidents of this story are forcibly conceived, and even in the hands of an ordinary writer would scarcely fail of effect. But, in the present instance, so unusual a tact is developed in the narration, that we are inclined to rank "Peter Snook" among the few tales which (each in its own way) are absolutely faultless. It is a Flemish home-piece of the highest order its merits lying in its chiaro'scuro in that blending of light and shade and shadow ,where nothing is too distinct, yet where the idea is fully conveyed in the absence of all rigid outlines and all miniature painting in the not undue warmth of the coloring and in a well subdued exaggeration at all points an exaggeration never amounting to caricature. The incidents of this story are forcibly conceived, and even in the hands of an ordinary writer would scarcely fail of effect. But, in the present instance, so unusual a tact is developed in the narration, that we are inclined to rank "Peter Snook" among the few tales which (each in its own way) are absolutely faultless. It is a Flemish home-piece of the highest order its merits lying in its chiaro'scuro in that blending of light and shade and shadow ,where nothing is too distinct, yet where the idea is fully conveyed in the absence of all rigid outlines and all miniature painting in the not undue warmth of the coloring and in a well subdued exaggeration at all points an exaggeration never amounting to caricature". The two volumes need rebinding or a nice custom clam-shell case. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots. . Hardcover. (21436) $250.00.