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Edgar Allan Poe — “Prospectus of the Penn (later the Stylus)”






Texts and Variant Texts

Reading copy:
  • “Prospectus” — reading copy (copy-text is based on Text 02)

Manuscripts and Authorized Printings:

  • “Prospectus” — 1836, no original manuscript or fragments are known to exist (but this version is presumably recorded in Text 02) — Text 01
  • Prospectus for an unspecified literary magazine (about 1835) (In Our Press Gang, L. A. Wilmer comments that Poe "proposed to join me [Wilmer] in the publication of a monthly magazine of a superior intellectual character, and he had written a prospectus, which he transmitted to me for examination" (Mabbott, Merlin (1941), p. 26). Before Wilmer could act on the plan, Poe apparently accepted a position at the SLM.)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (June 12, 1840 — Spirit of the Times)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (June 13, 1840 — Saturday Chronicle and Mirror of the Times (Philadelphia)) (noted by J. Albert Robbins, PS, V, 2, 1972, p. 48)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (June 13, 1840 — Saturday Courier (Philadelphia))
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (September 1840 — broadside)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (September 12, 1840 — Daily Chronicle and General Advertiser)
  • Prospectus of the Stylus  (February or March 1843 — broadside)
  • Prospectus of the Stylus  (February 25 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (No copy of this issue is known. The text is presumably identical to that reprinted in the March 4, 1843 issue.)
  • Prospectus of the Stylus  (March 11, 1843 — Saturday Museum) (An apparently unique copy in a private collection. The text is identical to that reprinted in the March 4, 1843 issue. Based on the curious presentation in Gill's biography of Poe, there has been some speculation that this copy was illustrated with the picture of the hand holding a stylus and writing the Greek word for "Truth." First-hand examination of this issue, however, confirms that the prospectus has no illustration. It would appear that Gill merely reproduced the picture from the proposed cover Poe sent to E. H. N. Patterson.)
  • Prospectus of the Stylus  (excerpts April 29, 1843 — Boston Notion)

Reprints:
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (reprint of above, September 14, 1840 — Daily Chronicle and General Advertiser)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (reprint of above, September 16, 1840 — Daily Chronicle and General Advertiser)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (reprint of above, September 17, 1840 — Daily Chronicle and General Advertiser)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (reprint of above, September 18, 1840 — Daily Chronicle and General Advertiser)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (reprint of above, September 22, 1840 — Daily Chronicle and General Advertiser)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (reprint of above, September 25, 1840 — Daily Chronicle and General Advertiser)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (reprint of above, October 12, 1840 — Daily Chronicle and General Advertiser)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (reprint of above, October 16, 1840 — Daily Chronicle and General Advertiser)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (reprint of above, October 19, 1840 — Daily Chronicle and General Advertiser)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (reprint of above, October 28, 1840 — Daily Chronicle and General Advertiser)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (reprint of above, October 31, 1840 — Daily Chronicle and General Advertiser)
  • Prospectus of the Penn Magazine  (reprint of above, November 2, 1840 — Daily Chronicle and General Advertiser)

Associated Material and Special versions:
  • [Prospectus of the Penn Magazine] — 1904 — Edgar Poe: Sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris: Félix Alcan  (French translation by Emile Lauvrière, from the January 1841 text)













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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.





 
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