Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

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Overview:

Title: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
Author: Edgar A. Poe
Year: 1840
Publisher: Lea and Blanchard
Pages: 243+228
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Collection
Title Reference: Hans Phaall
Notes:
- Two volumes.
- Information primarily from Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore. See this, this (vol I) and this (vol II).
- The "Preface":
  - is an introduction to the two-volume set and is not related to Poe's poem "Preface"
  - is uncredited but written in the first person and clearly by Poe
  - is on unnumbered p. 5.
- "Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling" is thought to have been published prior to this, sometime 1837-1839, or it would be the only story in this two-volume set not to have been published previously. But no record of prior publication has been found.
- Original price unknown
- Limited edition of 750 copies
- Bound in purple muslin with printed paper spine label. Picture shown here is of the title page of vol. 1.
- Known to have been published in 1840, and reviewed in the Jan. 1840 edition of the "Southern Literary Messenger", p. 126, hence presumably published in Jan. 1840.