Accession number
PML 17542-43, 75118
Published
[New-York] : Wiley and Putnam, 1845-1852.
Notes
Subtitle varies: 1848-Apr. 1850, A Whig journal devoted to politics and literature.
Imprint on v. 6: New York: George H. Colton ...; Wiley and Putnam ..., London.
At foot of title (v.1, no.2): Edward O. Jenkins, printer ...
Index in each volume.
Portraits engraved by T. Doney and G. Parker.
Some words with a mummy appeared first in Poems, 1831, under title: The doomed city.
The valley of unrest was originally published in Poems, 1831, under title: The valley Nis.
The city in the sea was originally published in Poems, 1831, under title: The doomed city; later published under title: City of sin.
"This has always been considered the first printing [of The raven]. Theoretically speaking, this is so. Actually it was probably the first setting up in type. The Evening Mirror in issue of January 29, 1845, published the poem by permission in advance of the actual appearance of the Review in the open market"--Charles F. Heartman and James R. Canny, A bibliography of first printings of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe (1943), p. 145.
Library holdings: v. 1, containing The Raven / by --- Quarles (p. 143-145), Some words with a mummy (p. p. 363-370), The city in the sea (p. 393), The valley of unrest (p. 392), Eulalie, The American drama,and The facts of M. Valdemar's case; v. 6, no. 6, containing To --- --- --- : Ulalume, a ballad / E.A. Poe (p. 599-600).
Imprint on v. 6: New York: George H. Colton ...; Wiley and Putnam ..., London.
At foot of title (v.1, no.2): Edward O. Jenkins, printer ...
Index in each volume.
Portraits engraved by T. Doney and G. Parker.
Some words with a mummy appeared first in Poems, 1831, under title: The doomed city.
The valley of unrest was originally published in Poems, 1831, under title: The valley Nis.
The city in the sea was originally published in Poems, 1831, under title: The doomed city; later published under title: City of sin.
"This has always been considered the first printing [of The raven]. Theoretically speaking, this is so. Actually it was probably the first setting up in type. The Evening Mirror in issue of January 29, 1845, published the poem by permission in advance of the actual appearance of the Review in the open market"--Charles F. Heartman and James R. Canny, A bibliography of first printings of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe (1943), p. 145.
Library holdings: v. 1, containing The Raven / by --- Quarles (p. 143-145), Some words with a mummy (p. p. 363-370), The city in the sea (p. 393), The valley of unrest (p. 392), Eulalie, The American drama,and The facts of M. Valdemar's case; v. 6, no. 6, containing To --- --- --- : Ulalume, a ballad / E.A. Poe (p. 599-600).
Description
16 v. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed: W.H. Hait, Troy (PML 75118)
Provenance
With bookplate of Edmund Clarence Stedman.
Binding
1/2 pigskin (17542, 17543); original wrappers, in PML case (75118).
Classification
Catalog link
Department