Edgar Allan Poe — “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House”

Reading copy:

• “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” — 1845, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” — February 15, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text A)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)

Reprints:

• “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” — 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black (3:508-511) — (Mabbott text B) (In the 1876 version of what had been the Griswold edition, W. J. Widdleton incorporated Ingram’s additions, including “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House,” 2:521-524.)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” — 1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 9: Eureka and Miscellanies, eds. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (9:286-290, and 9:317)  (In the note, the editors comment that: “This article, though, like the precedin, of little importance, has some biographical interest.”)
• “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (14:160-163)
• “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 3: Tales and Sketches II, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (3:1205-1210)
• “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews, ed. G. R. Thompson, New York: Library of America (pp. 1036-1038)

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Quelques secrets de la prison du magazine” — 1887 — Edgar Poë: Derniers Contes, Paris: Albert Savine  (French translation by Félix Rabbe)
• “The Magazine Prison-House” — 2007 — Audio book (unabridged), read by Chris Aruffo (part of a 5-CD set)

• 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.