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The prisoner of Chillon : and other poems / by Lord Byron.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR4367 .A1 1816 Frost copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Haney, John Louis, 1877-1960 (bookplate) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)
- Clarke, Thomas (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 60 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Prisoner of Chillon, &c.
- Fingerprint:
- 5550 d;d, l;l, SoIt (3) 1816 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1816.
- Contents:
- Sonnet on Chillon
- The prisoner of Chillon
- Sonnet
- Stanzas to
- Darkness
- Churchill's grave
- The dream
- The incantation
- Prometheus
- Notes.
- Notes:
- "T. Davison ... [printer]"--Half-title verso.
- With advertisements on verso of final leaf. At bottom of page: "T. Davison, Lombard-street, Whitefriars, London."
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 has bookplate of John Louis Haney.
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 bound with: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. The bride of Abydos: a Turkish tale. London : Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars, for John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1813.
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has publisher's advertisements, dated November, 1816 (4 p.) inserted at end.
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has autograph of Thomas Clarke.
- Culture Class Collection copies 2 and 3 have paper wrappers.
- Culture Class Collection copy 3 imperfect: half-title wanting.
- Culture Class Collection copy 3 has printed bookseller's information on this edition, with ms. inscription "Lionel Clark McCo 5/3/10", on back flyleaf.
- Frost Collection copy imperfect: half-title leaf wanting.
- Frost Collection copy has modern ms. bibliographical note in pencil on back free endpaper.
- Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy bound in full marbled calf (spine rebacked); boards tooled in gold; author, title and imprint date stamped in gold on spine; yellow silk marker.
- Cited in:
- Randolph, F.L. Byron, p. 61
- Wise, T.J. Byron, v. 1, p. 113-114
- OCLC:
- 6018040
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