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Edgar Allan Poe — Prefaces and Introductions







Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “xxxx” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 02)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:


Reprints:
  • "Preface" [to The Conchologist's First Book] (from the first and second editions) (1880 — The Select Works of Edgar Allan Poe, W. J. Widdleton, pp. clxxi-clxxviii, as an "Appendix" to Stoddard's introductory "Life of Poe." Includes a comparison with Captain Thomas Brown's book on Conchology, implying plagiarism on Poe's part.)
  • “Preface [to The Raven and Other Poems]” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 7: Poems, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (10:xlvii)
  • "Poe's Introduction to 'The Tales of the Folio Club'," — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:xxxv-xxxix)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • "Préface aux Contes du Grotesque et de l'Arabesque" — 1914 — Edgar Poe: Histories étranges et Merrveilleuses, Paris: Mercure de France (French translation by M. D. Calvocoressi of the preface to TGA.)
  • "L'In-Folio Club" — 1950 — Histories grotesques et sérieuse par Edgar Poe, Paris: Classiques Garnier (French translation by Léon Lemonnier of the introduction to "Tales of the Folio Club")













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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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