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Texts and Variant Texts Reading copy: “Maelzel's Chess-Player” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00) Manuscripts and Authorized Printings: “Maelzel's Chess-Player” — late 1835 or early 1836, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01  (Griswold adds a note to his printing of the text stating that it was "written in 1835," although his authority for the statement is not clear.) “Maelzel's Chess-Player” — April 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger — Text 02 Reprints: “Maelzel's Chess-Player” — 1856 — WORKS — Griswold essentially reprints Text 02 “Maelzel's Chess-Player” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:286-311)   (The illustration of the player appears on 3:290) “Maelzel's Chess-Player” — 1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 9: Eureka and Miscellanies, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (9:141-173, and 9:315)  (The illustration of the player appears on 9:147) The Chess Player — about 1895 — Log Cabin Series, No. 35, New York: Log Cabin Press  (soft-bound publication of 199 pages, with a lovely pictorial cover, but with no obvious connection to the contents, and advertisements. Although "The Chess Player" is the featured title, the book also contains ten other works by Poe.) “Maelzel's Chess-Player” —1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (14:6-37)  (The illustration of the player appears on 14:11) “Maelzel's Chess-Player” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews, ed. G. R. Thompson, New York: Library of America (pp. 1253-1276) “Maelzel's Chess-Player” — 1997 — Edgar Allan Poe: Writings in the Southern Literary Messenger, Nonfictional Prose, ed. Burton R. Pollin and J. V. Ridgely, New York: Gordian Press, 5:156-164  (volume 5 of The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe)  (This version reprints the full text using a photographic facsimile of pages from the Southern Literary Messenger, although the layout of pages and columns has been modified for the new format.) the essay is widely anthologized Associated Material and Special versions: “Le joueur d'éches de Maelzel” — (French translation by Charles Baudelaire) “Le joueur d'éches de Maelzel” — July 12 - August 2, 1862 — Le Monde illustré “Le joueur d'éches de Maelzel” — Part I — July 12, 1862 “Le joueur d'éches de Maelzel” — Part II — July 19, 1862 “Le joueur d'éches de Maelzel” — Part III — July 26, 1862 “Le joueur d'éches de Maelzel” — Part IV — August 2, 1862 “Le joueur d'éches de Maelzel” — 1865 — Histoires grotesques et sérieuses, Paris: Michel Lévy frères

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Bibliography: Daughrity, Kenneth Leroy, "Notes: Poe and Blackwood's," American Literature, November 1930, 2:289-292. Evans, Henry Ridgely, Edgar Allan Poe and Baron von Kempelen's Chess-Playing Automation, Kenyon, OH: International Brotherhood of Magicians, 1939. Garber, Frederick, "Maelzel and Me," in Encountering the Other(s): Studies in Literature, History, and Culture, ed. Gisela Brinkler-Gabler, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995, pp. 103-126 Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943. Irwin, John T., "Handedness and the Self: Poe's Chess Player," Arizona Quarterly, 1989, 45:1-28 Panek, Leroy L., " 'Maelzel's Chess-Player,' Poe's First Detective Mistake," American Literature, 1976, 48:370-372 Pollin, Burton R. and Joseph V. Ridgely, eds., Edgar Allan Poe: Writings in the Southern Literary Messenger, New York: Gordian Press, 1997, 5:177-181  (This is volume 5 of the Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, though all volumes in this series were issued separately) Wimsatt, William K., Jr., "Poe and the Chess Automaton," American Literature, May 1939, 11:138-151.

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