Edgar Allan Poe — “Autography”

Reading copy:

• “Autography” — reading copy

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

• Text-01 — “Autography” — 1836, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
• Text-02 — “Autography” — February-August 1836 — Southern Literary Messenger — (This is Mabbott’s copy-text)
  • “Autography” - Part I  — February 1836
  • “Autography” - Part II — August 1836
• Text-03 — Autography (text “C”) — November 1841 - January 1842 — Graham’s —
  • “A Chapter on Autography” - Part I  — November 1841
  • “A Chapter on Autography” - Part II — December 1841
  • “An Appendix of Autographs” — January 1842

Reprints:

• “Autography” — 1836 — The Metropolitian
  • “Autography” - Part I — September 21, 1836
  • “Autography” - Part II — October 7, 1836
  • “Autography” - Part III — October 10, 1836
  • “Autography” - Part IV — October 12, 1836
• “A Chapter on Autography” — November 6, 1841 — New World (pp. 290, cols. 3&4 - 293, cols. 1&2)
• “A Chapter on Autography” — 1853 — Illustrated News (abridged and re-arranged by C. G. Leland)
  • “A Chapter on Autography” - Part I — January 15, 1853
  • “A Chapter on Autography” - Part II — January 22, 1853
  • “A Chapter on Autography” - Part III — January 29, 1853
  • “A Chapter on Autography” - Part IV — February 5, 1853
• “Autography” —1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black
  • “A Chapter on Autography” (4:1-50)
  • “An Appendix of Autographs” (4:51-62)

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “A Chapter on Autography” — 1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 9: Eureka and Miscellanies, ed. G. E. Woodberry and E. C. Stedman, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (9:183-259, and 9:316)
• “Autography” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 15: Literati and Autography, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell
  • “Autography” (15:139-174)
  • “A Chapter on Autography” part I (15:175-208)
  • “A Chapter on Autography” part II (15:209-246)
  • “An Appendix of Autographs” (15:246-261)
• “Autography” — 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O. Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:259-291)

Instream Comparative Texts:

• None

Plain Text Files for Juxta:

• None

Miscellaneous Texts and Related Items:

• [“An Index of Authors in “Autography”]

• Hammond, Alexander, “The Hidden Jew in Poe’s ‘Autography’,” Poe Newsletter, October 1969, 2:55-56
• Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, “Poe’s Obscure Contemporaries,” American Notes & Queries, February 1942, 1:166-167
• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
• O‘Connor, Roger, “Letters, Signatures and ‘Juws’ in Poe’s ‘Autography’,” Poe Newsletter, June 1970, 3:21-22