Don Juan. Cantos VI.-VII.-and VIII.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Reynell, Carew Henry, -1859, printer.

Hunt, John, active 1805-1829, publisher.

Riviere & Son, binder.

Standardized Title:

Don Juan. Canto 6-8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juan, Don (Legendary character)--Poetry.

Juan.

Juan, Don (Legendary character).

Genre:

Poetry.

Advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.

Fine bindings.

Penn Provenance:

Abrahams, Roger D. (donor)

Durkee, Richard Philip Hart (bookplate)

Upperton, Robert (autograph)

Physical Description:

vii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 184 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for John Hunt, 1823.

Notes:

First edition. Cf. Wise.

"London: Printed by C.H. Reynell, Broad Street, Golden Square"--T.p. verso.

Signatures: [A]⁸ B-M⁸ N².

"The second leaf of Sig. N is occupied by a series of Advertisements of Publications by John Hunt. The book was issued without a half-title."--Wise.

"Of cantos vi, vii, and viii fifteen hundred copies were printed in demy 8vo., three thousand in foolscap 8vo., together with sixteen thousand copies of the 'common' edition."--Wise.

Local Notes:

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

Penn Libraries copy is vol. 3 of a six-volume set of Don Juan, cantos 1-16, published in London 1819-1824 by John Murray and John Hunt.

Penn Libraries copy is printed in demy 8vo.

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 6-7-8" 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; autograph of "Robt Upperton" on title leaf.

Cited in:

Wise, T.J. Byron, II, p. 5

Randolph, F.L. Studies for a Byron bibl., p. 83

OCLC:

25766286