The Conchologist's First Book

The Conchologist’s First Book: or, A System of Testaceous Malacology, Arranged Expressly for the Use of Schools, 1839. Original Author: Edgar Allan Poe, author; P. S. Duval, lithographer. Color lithograph, Library of Virginia.

The Conchologist's First Book has recently been re-evaluated: perhaps Poe wasn’t just ripping off other texts, such as Brown’s The Conchologist’s Text-Book, as assumed previously.

 

 

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