Text-01 — “Why Not Try a Mineralized Pavement” — 1845, no original
manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
“Street-Paving” — April 19, 1845
— Broadway Journal — Text ??
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“Street Paving” —
1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 14: Essays and Miscellanies, ed. J. A. Harrison,
New York: T. Y. Crowell (14:164-169) (Harrison, apparently unaware of the earlier items, reprints the
article from the Broadway Journal)
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Bibliography:
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, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales
and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978.
Reilly, John E., “ ‘We write this article with no books before us’: Poe on
the Art of Street Paving,” Edgar Allan Poe Review, Fall 2007, 8:17-24 (Identifies Poe's source
for information on Kyanizing as “Report on the Best Modes of Paving Highways,” prepared for the Common
Councils of the City of Philadelphia in 1842, which was published serially in the Journal of the Franklin
Institute in the fall of 1843. Poe's source for information on Roman road building is from William
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, edtied by Charles Anthon and published by Harper
and Brothers in 1843. The specific article in Smith's Dictionary was “Viae,” which appears
on pp. 1041-1045.)
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