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” — about February 1836 — Petersburg Constellation (Petersburg, VA) (according to the Richmond Compiler, the Petersburg Constellation “copies the entire ‘Auotgraphy’ with high commendations.” The comments by the Richmond Compiler are reprinted in the “Supplement” of the Southern Literary Messenger for April 1836, p. 346, col. 1.)
• “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 (Ingram was aware of this item from the reprint in Illustrated News. Eventually, he found the necessary copies of Graham's Magazine, which was used as the basis for his text, although he intentionally omits a number of entries) (In the 1876 version of what had been the Griswold edition, W. J. Widdleton incorporated Ingram's additions, including the “Autography”, 2:v-lxvi.)
  • “A Chapter on Autography” (4:1-50)
  • “An Appendix of Autographs” (4:51-62)
• “A Chapter on Autography” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. C. F. Richardson, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (10:77-161)  (Richardson merely reprints the text as assembled by Ingram.)
• A Chapter on Autography — 1926 — ed. Don C. Sietz, New York: The Dial Press

Scholarly and Noteworthy Reprints:

• “A Chapter on Autography” — 1895 — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 9: Eureka and Miscellanies, eds. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry, Chicago: Stone and Kimball (9:183-259, and 9:316) (Stedman and Woodberry copy Ingram's slightly reduced set of entries, although the notes mistakenly credit Griswold.)
• “Autography” — 1902 — The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 15: Literati and Autography, ed. J. A. Harrison, New York: T. Y. Crowell
  • “Autography” Part I (15:139-163)
  • “Autography” Part II (15:164-174)
  • “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 and Study Texts:

• 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