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First mention of Poe in a printed book, 1829
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Kettell's Specimens of American Poetry
First mention of Poe in a printed book, 1829
POE, Edgar Allan – KETTELL, Samuel (1800-1955), editor. Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices. Boston: S.G. Goodrich & Co., 1829.
The first mention of Poe's work in a book and the earliest bibliography of American poetry—uncut in original boards. This first edition collection includes the work of nearly 200 poets up to 1829, with Kettell supplying biographical sketches for each writer, ranging from Cotton Mather to Francis Scott Key, Washington Irving, and Sarah Josepha Hale. The Catalogue of American Poetry at the end lists "Tamerlane, and other poems, by a Bostonian, Boston, 1827"—the first mention of any work by Poe in a printed book. According to Roger Stoddard, this catalogue is the beginning of the bibliography of early American poetry. BAL 3251; Sabin 37655. See Heartman & Canny, p.15, for a note on the Poe reference and Stoddard and Whitesell, A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse, p. xiii.
Three volumes, 12mo (196 x 122mm). 30 pp. Catalogue of American Poetry at end (foxing to some gatherings). Original purple-muslin backed boards, printed paper spine labels, untrimmed and partly unopened (paper labels partially preserved, spines worn, repaired). Provenance: occasional pencil marks and notes – Giles Mansfield (inscription dated 1829).
First mention of Poe in a printed book, 1829
POE, Edgar Allan – KETTELL, Samuel (1800-1955), editor. Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices. Boston: S.G. Goodrich & Co., 1829.
The first mention of Poe's work in a book and the earliest bibliography of American poetry—uncut in original boards. This first edition collection includes the work of nearly 200 poets up to 1829, with Kettell supplying biographical sketches for each writer, ranging from Cotton Mather to Francis Scott Key, Washington Irving, and Sarah Josepha Hale. The Catalogue of American Poetry at the end lists "Tamerlane, and other poems, by a Bostonian, Boston, 1827"—the first mention of any work by Poe in a printed book. According to Roger Stoddard, this catalogue is the beginning of the bibliography of early American poetry. BAL 3251; Sabin 37655. See Heartman & Canny, p.15, for a note on the Poe reference and Stoddard and Whitesell, A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse, p. xiii.
Three volumes, 12mo (196 x 122mm). 30 pp. Catalogue of American Poetry at end (foxing to some gatherings). Original purple-muslin backed boards, printed paper spine labels, untrimmed and partly unopened (paper labels partially preserved, spines worn, repaired). Provenance: occasional pencil marks and notes – Giles Mansfield (inscription dated 1829).
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