CLARKE, Harry, [Illustrator]; Edgar Allan Poe.

This, Clarke's second work, is considered by many to be his greatest achievement in book design in his short career, curtailed by tuberculosis. As a boy Harry Clarke trained in his father's stained glass studio in Dublin before matriculating at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. During his studies he spent time in Paris under the tutelage of Ernest Taylor and his wife, Jessie M. King. His real feeling for gothic horror can be seen in his Poe illustrations, where tubercular figures rise in agony from pools of black ink.