Edgar Allan Poe — “Bon-Bon”

Reading copy:

• “Bon-Bon” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “The Bargain Lost” — 1831, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “The Bargain Lost” — December 1, 1832 — Saturday Courier — (Mabbott text A1)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text for this title)
• Text-03 — “Bon-Bon” — 1835, presumed heavily revised version of “The Bargain Lost” under the new title. The extent of the changes, with many small but inconsequential variations of a phrase here and there, suggests a new manuscript was written. No original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-04)
• Text-04 — “Bon-Bon” — August 1835 — Southern Literary Messenger — (Mabbott text A)
• Text-05 — “Bon-Bon” — about 1839 — manuscript revisions in “Duane” copy of  Southern Literary Messenger — (Mabbott text B)
• Text-06 — “Bon-Bon” — 1840 — TGA — (Mabbott text C)
• Text-07 — “Bon-Bon” — 1842 — TGAPP — (Mabbott text D)  (This version is a modified form of Text-06) (Additional changes in the BJ text suggest further revisions, possibly made in proof pages for the new printing. The chief change is the addition of the motto.)
• Text-08 — “Bon-Bon” — April 19, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text E)
• Text-03 — “Bon-Bon” — 1846-1849 — speculated revised copy of Broadway Journal (Text-07), perhaps in anticipation of reprinting elsewhere. (This version does not survive, but these revisions are presumably recorded in Text-10. The changes are slight enough that a new manuscript is highly unlikely. At least some of these changes are significant enough that they suggest the hand of the author rather than of Griswold as editor.)
• Text-10 — “Bon-Bon” — 1850 — WORKS — (Mabbott text F)  (This is Mabbott’s copy-text for this title)

Reprints:

• “Bon-Bon” — July 1845 — Spirit of the Times (Philadelphia, PA)  (reprinted from the Broadway Journal)
  • “Bon-Bon [part I]” — July 22, 1845
  • “Bon-Bon [part II]” — July 23, 1845
• “Bon-Bon” — 1867 — Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, second series (New York: W. J. Widdleton), pp. 183-199 (This collection is extracted from the 1850-1856 edition of Poe’s Works. It was reprinted several times.)
• “Bon-Bon” — 1874 — Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram (vol. II, pp. 401-418) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “Bon-Bon” — 1894-1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:22-43) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various forms)
• “Bon-Bon” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:125-146, and 2:348-354)
• “The Bargain Lost” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:83-95)
• “Bon-Bon” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:96-117)
• “Bon-Bon” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 164-180

Instream Comparative and Study Texts:

• “Bon-Bon” — Comparative Text (Saturday Courier and SLM)
• “Bon-Bon” — Study Text (SLM-WMD)
• “Bon-Bon” — Comparative Text (SLM, SLM-WMD and TGA)
• “Bon-Bon” — Study Text (TGAPP)
• “Bon-Bon” — Comparative Text (TGAPP and BJ)
• “Bon-Bon” — Comparative Text (BJ and WORKS)

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• “Le philosophe Bon-Bon” — 1882 — Contes Grotesques par Edgar Poe, Paris: Paul Ollendorff  (French translation by Émile Hennequin)
• “Bon-Bon” — 1887 — Edgar Poë: Derniers Contes, Paris: Albert Savine  (French translation by Félix Rabbe)
• ”Bon-Bon” — 1950 — Histories grotesques et sérieuse par Edgar Poe, Paris: Classiques Garnier (French translation by Léon Lemonnier, who also  translates “The Bargain Lost,” as a separate tale)

• Bachinger, Katrina E., “Towards a New Era in Poe Stdies: The Case for a Byronic Interpretation of Poe’s Tales Illustrated by ‘A Decided Loss’ and ‘Bon-Bon’,”in Salzburg Miscellany: English and American Studies 1964-1984, ed. Wilfried Haslauer, Salzburg, Austra: Institut fur Anglistik & Amerikanstik, University of Salzburg, 1984, 1:37-54.
• Christie, James W., “Poe’s ‘Diabolical’ Humor: Revisions in ‘Bon-Bon’,” Library Chronicle (1976), 41:44-45; reprinted as “Poe’s ‘Diabolical’ Humor: Revisions in ‘Bon-Bon’,” Poe at Work: Seven Textual Studies (Baltimore: Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1978), 44-45
• Daughrity, Kenneth Leroy, “Notes: Poe and Blackwood’s,” American Literature (Nov. 1930), 2:289-292
• Evans, Robert C., “Poe, O‘Connor, and the Mystery of the Misfit,” Flannery O‘Connor Bulletin, 1996-1997, 25:1-12
• 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.
• Hudson, Ruth Leigh, “Poe and Disraeli,” American Literature (January 1937), 8:402-416.
• Lynch, James J., “The Devil in the Writings of Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe,” New York Folklore Quarterly (Summer 1952), 8:111-113.
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
• Wyllie, John Cooke, “A List of the Texts of Poe’s Tales,” Humanistic Studies in Honor of John Calvin Metcalf, Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1941, pp. 322-338.