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Don Leon : a poem by Lord Byron, author of Childe Harold ..., and forming part of the private journal of His lordship, supposed to have been entirely destroyed by Thos. Moore ... : to which is added, Leon to Annabella, an epistle from Lord Byron to Lady Byron.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR4373 .D6 1934
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Biography.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 127 pages ; 19 cm
- Other Title:
- Leon to Annabella.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Published for subscribers by The Fortune Press, [1934]
- Notes:
- Both 'Don Leon' and 'Leon to Annabella' falsely attributed to Lord Byron. Cf. Wise, Ashley Lib. I, 168. Knight, Lord Byron's marriage, p. 162 states that both poems were probably written by George Colman the younger, and that the "Notes to Don Leon" were written at various times by various hands.
- For discussion of authorship & earlier editions, cf. G. Wilson Knight, Lord Byron's marriage, p. 159-169.
- Purports to tell the inside story of Byron's alleged homosexual propensities.
- Edition limited to 1,000 copies.
- Local Notes:
- RBC has copy 910.
- OCLC:
- 63592968
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