POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849). "The Raven" in: The American Review: A Whig Journal. Vol. I, Nos. 1-6. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845.  

6 parts in one, 8vo (225 x 145 mm). 3 engraved portraits (of 5, lacking 2). (Some pale spotting, a few leaves browned.) Contemporary cloth (rebacked in modern leather).

FIRST APPEARANCE OF POE'S "RAVEN" which appears on p.143 of the second number, under the pseudonym "by --- Quarles." Heartman and Canny consider this to be the first printing of "The Raven," but which appearance came first is a bit of a dispute. Heartman and Canny maintain that the 29 January 1845 appearance in The Evening Mirror is not the first printing, since The American Review announced that "No. II will bear date Feb. 1845, but will be issue early in January." Unless the publishers were unable to issued the work as promised, the appearance in The American Review predates the later January appearance in The Evening Mirror.   See Heartman and Canny, p.145.  

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