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Edgar Allan Poe — “Desultory Notes on Cats”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Desultory Notes on Cats” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 00)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:
  • “Desultory Notes on Cats” — 1844, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • “Desultory Notes on Cats” — July 19, 1844  — Philadelphia Public Ledger — Text 02 (Mabbott text "A")  (This is Mabbott's copytext)

Reprints:
  • “Desultory Notes on Cats” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales & Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (3:1095-1098)

Associated Material and Special versions:
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Bibliography:
  • 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.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.



 
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