Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Bound in purple muslin, each volume's spine carrying a paper label reading 'TALES / OF THE / GROTESQUE / AND / ARABESQUE / BY / E. A. POE.' A key first-issue point: during printing, the type for pages 213 and 219 of volume two worked loose, so the earlier state has page 213 correctly numbered while later copies show it misnumbered as '231,' with a corresponding shift on page 219 in the position of the 'i' in 'ing' and the hyphen at the end of line 26 -- collectors check both pages against BAL's recorded states to establish priority