By the early 19th century, autograph albums containing facsimiles of famous historic signatures had become a brief craze. Even Edgar Allan Poe got into the act, publishing a book of autograph ...

In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of ...