The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe

Overview:

• Title: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe
• Author: Edgar Allan Poe
• Year: 1856
• Publisher: J. S. Redfield
• Pages: lv+483+xxxvi+495+607+447
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Collection
• Title Reference: Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
• Notes:
  • The full text and images of this volume 4 edition are available at Google Books.
  • Information primarily from the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore.
  • Expanded to four volumes (earlier editions had two or three)
  • Price unknown
  • While "J.R. Lowell" is used on the title page, his "Edgar A. Poe" essay has the full "James Russell Lowell".
  • The "Preface" to Narrative of A. Gordon Pym appears on a roman numbeed page and is signed "A. G. Pym" (New York, July, 1838) and is part of that work.
  • "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq." appears over "Late Editor of the 'Goosetherumfoodle." over "by Himself".
  • "Loss of Breath" appears over "A Tale Neither in nor out of 'Blackwood'".
  • "The Man That Was Used Up" appears over "A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign".
  • Dates for some of the reviews obtained from this bibliography.
  • See the notes here.
  • The Library of Congress record incorrectly includes the fourth volume of the set which was not added until 1856.