Edgar Allan Poe / collection

Poe — lifetime print sources

Publications and print evidence from Poe’s lifetime, preserved as facsimiles.

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Book or periodical1845 (annual issued 1844)

First publication of Edgar Allan Poe's tale 'The Purloined Letter.'

Book or periodical1842 (annual issued 1841)

First publication of Edgar Allan Poe's tale 'Eleonora.'

Book or periodical1846-11

First publication of Edgar Allan Poe's tale 'The Cask of Amontillado.'

Book or periodical1845-02-28

Newspaper printing of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, on page 1, columns 2–3. All 18 poem stanzas are present.

Book or periodicalApril 1846

Poe’s essay explaining his account of composing “The Raven,” preserved in the original periodical issue.

Book or periodical8 February 1845

Periodical printing of “The Raven,” signed Edgar A. Poe, with an introduction stating that the poem was copied from the American Review.

Book or periodicalFebruary 1845

Poem printed under the name “Quarles,” with the periodical’s introductory notice. Preserved within its bound-volume scan.

Book or periodical29 January 1845 (issue attribution not independently confirmed)

Newspaper-page facsimile with “The Raven” and an editorial introduction in the first column.

Book or periodical27 December 1839

Front page of the Daily National Intelligencer containing bookseller notices for Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.