publication "The Murders In The Rue Morgue" About the artist

This 72 page book uses expressive typography to illustrate a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. Typeface used throughout book is Didot. Designed and hand bound by myself in response to a university assignment.

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"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

Binding detail.

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

Jacket design.

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

Cover.

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

Typography detail from jacket.

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

Title page.

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

" ... to calculate is not in itself to analyze. A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other."

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

The narrator introduces the hero of the story...

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

" ... until warned by the clock of the advent of the true Darkness."

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

" ... we will first retrace the course of your meditations, from the moment in which I spoke to you until that of the rencontre with the fruiterer in question. The larger links of the chain run thus: ... "

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

Typography detail.

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

" ... a Latin line about which we have often conversed. I mean the line: ... "

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

Typical spread.

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

"Not long after this, we were looking over an evening edition of the 'Gazette des Tribunaux', when the following paragraphs arrested our attention."

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

"Dupin [the detective] scrutinized every thing - not excepting the bodies of the victims. ... The examination occupied us until dark, when we took our departure."

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

Typography detail.

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

"The riddle, so far, was now unriddled. The assassin had escaped through the window which looked upon the bed."

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

"The next question is that of the mode of descent."

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

"'You will perceive', continued my friend, spreading out the paper upon the table before us, 'that this drawing gives the idea of a firm and fixed hold. ... Attempt, now, to place all your fingers ... in the respective impressions as you see them'."

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

The intensity of the storytelling builds up as we approach the climax and sollution to the mystery...

"The Murders In The Rue Morgue"

Typography detail.