Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - People - Calvin Frederick Stephen Thomas

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Sections: Biography Letters Bibliography

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American printer and publisher. He is best remembered today as the printer for Poe’s first collection of poetry, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1827).

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Letters:

Forgery: E. A. Poe to C. F. S. Thomas - undated, but supposedly 1827 (Notes about printing “Tamerlane.” Revealed as a J. Cosey forgery by Charles Hamilton.)

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Davis, Robert M., “The Quest for Calvin,” Edgar Allan Poe Review, vol. XVI, SPring 1988, p. 8
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, “Introduction,” Tamerlane and Other Poems, New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1941, pp. v-lxvi (specifically pp. xx-xxvii)
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. (Second printing 1979)
Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
Wegelin, Oscar, “Poe’s First Printer,” American Collector, vol. III, October 1926, p. 31
Wegelin, Oscar, “The Printer of Poe’s Tamerlane,” New York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin, January 1940, 24:23-25
Woodberry, George E., Edgar Allan Poe, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885, pp. 30 and 36

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