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Don Juan.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC8 B9965 819d v.1-6
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Juan, Don (Legendary character)--Poetry.
- Juan.
- Juan, Don (Legendary character).
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 6 volumes ; 16 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by Thomas Davison, 1821-1824.
- Contents:
- [1] [Without special title; cantos I-II]
- [2] Cantos III, IV, and V
- [3] Cantos VI.-VII.-and VIII.
- [4] Cantos IX.-X.-and XI.
- [5] Cantos XII.-XIII.-and XIV.
- [6] Cantos XV. and XVI.
- Notes:
- A six-volume set in a uniform binding of Don Juan, cantos 1-16.
- Imprint varies: v.1: Printed by Thomas Davison, 1823; v. 2: Printed by Thomas Davison, 1821; v. 3-5: Printed for John Hunt, 1823; v. 6: Printed for John and H.L. Hunt, 1824.
- Vols. 3-6: "Printed by C.H. Reynell"--T.p. verso.
- Vols. 1-2 are not described in Wise or Randolph. Of the 1821 edition of Cantos III-V, Wise states "[n]o 'Common' edition was published by Murray."
- Vols. 3-6 are not Hunt's "common" editions of 1823-1824; neither the collation nor the page size of these volumes matches that described by Randolph.
- Errata slip inserted in v. 6.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in full calf with gold-stamped covers; five raised, gold-stamped bands on spine; gold-stamped spine panels; two red morocco labels on spine, one with title and the other with volume number stamped in gold; gold-stamped cover edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges marbled; red silk marker.
- Culture Class Collection copy has 1 ms. leaf of bibliographic information laid in v. 1; ms. bibliographic notes in pencil on first preliminary leaf of v. 1.
- Cited in:
- Wise, T.J. Byron, II, p. 3-6
- Randolph, F.L. Studies for a Byron bibl., p. 82, 84, 86, 88, 92
- OCLC:
- 24083977
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