Text-01 — “The Philosophy of Furniture” — 1840, no original
manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text-02)
Text-03 — “House Furniture” — 1840-1845 — speculated revised
copy of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (Text-02), perhaps in anticipation of reprinting elsewhere.
(This version does not survive, but these revisions are presumably recorded in Text-04. The changes are
substantial enough, especially in the last long paragraph, that a new manuscript is highly likely. It is possible
that a few additional changes were made in proof.)
Text-04 — “House Furniture” —
May 3, 1845 — Broadway Journal — (Mabbott text B) (For Griswold's 1850 reprinting of this text, see the entry below, under reprints.)
Reprints:
“The Philosophy of Furniture” — May 16, 1840 — The Spirit of the
Times (reprinted from Text-02)
“House Furniture” — May 17, 1845 — Weekly Mirror (New York)
(reprinted from Text-04)
“Philosophy of Furniture” — 1850
— Works — Griswold reprints Text-04, but with the title from Text-02 (Mabbott text C
— This is Mabbott's copy-text)
“The Philosophy of Furniture” — 1852 — Tales and Sketches: to which
is added The Raven: A Poem, London, George Routledge & Co., pp. 192-194 (This essay is not included in
Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Humour; and Poems, London: Henry Vizetelly, printed in England about
the same time)
“Philosophy of Furniture” — 1866 — The Complete Poetical Works of
Edgar Allan Poe; with a Selection of His Sketches and Reviews, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler
“Philosophy of Furniture”
— 1875 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. H. Ingram, Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black
(3:279-285)
Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:
“Philosophy of Furniture”
— 1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 9: Eureka and Miscellanies, eds. E. C. Stedman and
G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (9:174-182, and 9:315-316) (This text is reprinted from the
Broadway Journal, with “the omission of an initial paragraph.”)
“Philosophy of Furniture”
—1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell
(14:101-109)
“Philosophy of Furniture”
— 1978 — The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2: Tales & Sketches I, ed. T. O.
Mabbott, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2:494-504)
“The Philosophy of Furniture” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and
Tales, Patrick F. Quinn (New York: Library of America), pp. 382-387
“The Philosophy of Furniture” — 2015 — The Annotated Poe, ed.
Kevin J. Hayes (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press), pp. 155-162
“Philosophie de l‘Ameublement” — (French translation by Charles
Baudelaire)
“Philosophie de l‘Ameublement” — October 1852 — Le
Magazine Des Familles
“Philosophie de l‘Ameublement” — March 27, 1853 — Le
Monde littéraire
“Philosophie de l‘Ameublement” — September 14, 1854 — Le
Pays
“Philosophie de l‘Ameublement” — 1865 — Histoires
grotesques et sérieuses, Paris: Michel Lévy frères
“Philosophie de l‘Ameublement” — November 11, 1856 — Le
Mousquetaire (French translation by William L. Hughes)
“The Philosophy of Furniture” — 2007 — Audio book (unabridged), read
by Chris Aruffo (part of a 5-CD set)
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Bibliography:
Baudelaire, Charles, Baudelaire on Poe, translated and edited by Lois and Francis E.
Hyslop, Pennsylvania: Bald Eagle Press, 1952 (includes Baudelaire's preface to “The Philosophy of
Furniture”)
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.
Walters, Charles T., “Poe's ‘Philosophy of Furniture’,” Edgar
Allan Poe: Beyond Gothicism, ed. James M. Hutchisson, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011, pp. 1-15.
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