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Pollin (?) on Phaall facsimile “The facsimile is approximately the same size as the original, which is unusually small, with tiny and very careful printing.” https://www.eapoe.org/works/editions/index.htm#facsimiles

 

B. R. Pollin, ed., “Pinakidia,” The Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe — Vol. II: The Brevities (1985), p. 1:

Poe's general designation of “Brevities” he likes well enough to use below in this para. and also in the prefatory note for installment 13 of the “Marginalia,” ostensibly by the editor then of the SLM John R. Thompson, but clearly written by Poe himself.

 

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The “Lamentations” of Jeremiah are written, with the exception of the last chapter, in acrostic verse: that is to say, every line or couplet begins, in alphabetical order, with some letter in the Hebrew alphabet. In the third chapter each letter is repeated three times successively.