The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe

Overview:

  • Title: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe
  • Author: Edgar Allan Poe
  • Year: 1850
  • Publisher: J. S. Redfield
  • Pages: xx+483+495
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: Mesmeric Revelation
  • Notes:
    • The full text and images of this edition are available at Google Books:Vol. I and Vol. II.
    • Primary Verification done from those scanned images.
    • Information primarily from the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore.
    • Publication date stated only as 1850 on the title page (copyright 1849), but an ad announcing the Jan 10 availability of Vol I and Vol II ran in the Jan 9, 1850 New-York Tribune, and the set was reviewed in the Jan 16, 1850 The Dollar Newspaper.
    • Edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold.
    • The full title as stated on the title page of Volume 1 is:
      The Works
      of the Late
      Edgar Allan Poe:
      With
      Notices of His Life and Genius
      by
      N. P. Willis, J. R. Lowell, and R. W. Griswold
      in Two Volumes
      ------
      Vol. I
      Tales
    • The title page of Volume 2 is identical except for the volume number and title of the volume as "Poems and Miscellanies"
    • Price unknown
    • While "J.R. Lowell" is used on the title page, his "Edgar A. Poe" essay has the full "James Russell Lowell".
    • All of the introductory pieces appear on unnumbered pages.
    • The TOC has an incorrect title, "The Adventures of one Hans Pfaall".
    • Under the title "The Mystery of Marie Roget" appears "A Sequel to 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'".
    • Under the title "Landor's Cottage" appears "A Pendant to 'The Domain of Arnheim'".
    • See the notes here and these title page and TOC scans of Vol I and Vol II.