Text: Anonymous, “[Review of The Conchologist's First Book],” Saturday Courier (Philadelphia, PA), September 14, 1839, p. 2, col. 6

Conchologist's First Book. Philadelphia: Haswells & Barrington.

This is the second edition of a work from the pen of Edgar A. Poe, Esq[[.]], which we had occasion favourably to notice not long ago. That the public have so soon demanded a second issue, is an evidence that the book is properly appreciated. It is arranged with simplicity, expressly for the use of schools, and [page 68:] contains 215 engraved illustrations of shells. “The animals, according to Cuvier, are given with the shells — a great number of new species added,” and the whole is brought up to the present condition of the science of Testaceous Malacology. It is a good work, and will have extensive sale.