41 unnumbered pages including 2 full-page woodcuts at beginning and end, frontispiece and colophon. It features a caricature frontispiece of Poe and the bird, and is a printed calligraphic interpretation of the famous 1845 poem. 45 x 54 mm. Original hand-bound in vertically striped full purple velour. Printed white label on upper cover with block titling and circular purple paper border. This edition was privately printed by Gordon Murray, publisher of Silver Thimble miniature books.
Gordon Murray (1921 - 2016) was the Author, Illustrator, Calligrapher, Book designer, and Publisher of Silver Thimble books. After his career as a producer and puppeteer for popular children's television programs like Camberwick Green and Trumpton, Murray turned to producing miniature books under the Silver Thimble imprint. He performed all aspects of the bookmaking process himself, founded and ran Silver Thimble Books, working from his home in Bexhill-On-Sea, England. He illustrated the books, often using his own hand-colored illustrations and watercolors.He inscribed the text with his own calligraphy and designed the overall look of the miniature books. He bound the books by hand. These miniature books are now considered collectors' items and they include:
Carroll, Lewis. The Walrus and the Carpenter, 1983.
Murray, Gordon. One Dancing Princess, 1982.
Dickens, Charles. Winkle on Ice, 1984.
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Raven, 1982.
Mayhew, Henry. Covent Garden Market, 1851, 1983.
Murray, Gordon. A Van Called Alice, 1983.
Harrods 1884, 1983.
Carroll, Lewis. Pig & Pepper, 1984.
Carroll, Lewis. Advice From a Caterpillar, 1983.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1985.
Marshall, Archibald. The Princess, 1985.
Saki. The Saint and the Goblin, 1985.
Wilde, Oscar. The Selfish Giant, 1985.
Murray, Gordon, ed. Splendour of Life, 1986.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Three Kings, 1985.
Traherne, Solomon Herrick. A Crown of Rosebuds, 1986. OCLC, 156975946. WorldCat locates 8 copies worldwide (Pierpont Morgan, Lafayette, Delaware, Carnegie Mellon, Virginia, Indiana, Illinois at Urbana, and Wyoming University Libraries).
