Don Juan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.

Contributor:

John Murray (Firm), publisher.

Riviere & Son, binder.

Standardized Title:

Don Juan. Canto 1-2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juan, Don (Legendary character)--Poetry.

Juan.

Juan, Don (Legendary character).

Genre:

Poetry.

Fine bindings.

Penn Provenance:

Abrahams, Roger D. (donor)

Durkee, Richard Philip Hart (bookplate)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 227 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm (8vo)

Edition:

A new edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Thomas Davison, 1819.

Notes:

Published by John Murray. Cf. Wise.

"In the same year, 1819, a second edition was published in demy octavo size to range with the succeeding cantos."--Wise.

Signatures: [A]² B-P⁸ Q².

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2006 by Professor Roger D. Abrahams.

Penn Libraries copy is vol. 1 of a six-volume set of Don Juan, cantos 1-16, published in London 1819-1824 by John Murray and John Hunt. In this set vol. 1 is the "new edition".

Penn Libraries copy bound in full red morocco by Riviere & Son; gold-stamped covers; five raised, gold-stamped bands on spine; gold-stamped spine panels; title, "Cantos 1-2" and date stamped in gold on spine; gold-stamped cover-edges and turn-ins; gilt tops.

Penn Libraries copy has bookplate of Richard Philip Hart Durkee affixed to front pastedown; bookseller's printed description of six-volume set laid in.

Cited in:

Wise, T.J. Byron, II, p. 3-4

OCLC:

133466089