The Prose Romances (1843), title page and table of contents

Notes:

William H. Graham was the brother of George Rex Graham, editor of Graham's Magazine, for which Poe was, at one time, an editor. The cover effectively serves as the title page. Although noted as “No. I,” no other installments were issued in the intended series, presumably due to poor sales. The copyright notice, on the inside front cover, reads:

A printer's note appears in very small print towards the lower left corner of the page:

There is no table of contents in the original. One has been created here merely for purposes of convenience. The fact that the first page of the contents begins on what would be numbered page 9 is explained by the apparent plan by which several sets of tales would be issued as individual installments, numbered consecutively. Anyone who subscribed to the full series would eventually receive a title page and prefatory material which would fill pages 1-8. The whole set could then be bound together as a book.

It is interesting to note that The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is given among the works published by Poe, although that book had not been a tremendous success in the United States.