Text-03 — “A Tale of Jerusalem” — 1832-1836 — (speculated copy of the Saturday
Courier with revisions made with the intention of reprinting the tale. This missing text is presumably reflected in text-04.)
Text-05 — “A Tale of Jerusalem” — about 1839 — (although these pages in the Duane
copy of the Southern Literary Messenger show no sign of changes, the version published in TGA shows numerous
modifications, which suggests an intermediary form. It is likely, therefore, that Poe made changes in copies other than those which
were ultimately owned by Duane, and that those copies have not been located and possibly have not survived. Poe appears to have
attempted to erase his changes in the Duane copies, and it is possible that a copy exists in which these erased changes have been
overlooked. This missing text is presumably reflected in text-06.)
Text-07 — “A Pig Tale” — 1842 — manuscript title revision in TGAPP (This
tale appeared in the second volume of TGAPP, which has not survived. Thus, these manuscript revisions are lost, but
presumably recorded in Text-08)
Text-08 — “A Tale of Jerusalem” — September 20, 1845
— Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text D) (This is Mabbott's copy-text) (For Griswold's 1850 reprinting of this text, see the entry below, under reprints.)
Reprints:
“A Tale of Jerusalem” — July 6, 1832 — Northern Pennsylvanian, and Luzerne and
Susquehanna Advertiser (Dundaff, PA), no. 15, p. 1, cols. 2-3 (reprinted from the Saturday Courier. Poe's name is
not mentioned, just as it is not given in the Courier. In the reprint, the motto was omitted.) (Information for this entry
was provided to the Poe Society by Ton Fafianie in an e-mail dated October 4, 2019)
“A Tale of Jerusalem” — 1850 —
WORKS — Griswold reprints Text-06 (Mabbott text E)
“A Tale of Jerusalem” — 1867 — Prose Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, second series (New
York: W. J. Widdleton), pp. 10-14 (This collection is extracted from the 1850-1856 edition of Poe's Works. It was
reprinted several times.)
“A Tale of Jerusalem” — 1874 —
Works of Edgar A. Poe, edited by J. H. Ingram (vol. II, pp. 217-221) (This collection was subsequently reprinted in various
forms)
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
“A Tale of Jerusalem” — 1894-1895 —
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 4: Tales, eds. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (4:16-21)
“A Tale of Jerusalem” — 1902 —
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales I, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell (2:214-219, and
2:378-379)
“A Tale of Jerusalem” — 1978 —
The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press (2:41-51)
“A Tale of Jerusalem” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, ed. Patrick F.
Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 147-150
“Un événement à Jérusalem” — (French translation by Charles
Baudelaire)
“Un événement à Jérusalem” — March 20, 1859 — Revue
française
“Un événement à Jérusalem” — 1865 — Histoires
grotesques et sérieuses, Paris: Michel Lévy frères
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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. (The best overall bibliography of Poe, although it does contain errors and is
somewhat outdated.)
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. (Second printing 1979)
Quinn, Patrick F., ed.,Poetry and Tales, New York: The Library of America, 1978. (A good basic collection, although there are errors in some of the
texts.)
Varner, J. G., “Poe's ‘Tale of Jerusalem,’ and The Talmud,” American Book
Collector, February 1935, 6:56-57
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.
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