Front matter
Reading edition
BY
EDGAR A. POE.
NEW-YORK: GEO. P. PUTNAM, OF LATE FIRM OF “WILEY & PUTNAM,” 155 BROADWAY. MDCCCXLVIII.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, By EDGAR A. POE, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York. Leavitt, Trow & Co Prs., 33 Ann-street.
WITH VERY PROFOUND RESPECT, This Work is Dedicated TO ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT.