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Don Juan.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Byron PR4359.A1 1819 v. 1
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
- Standardized Title:
- Don Juan. Canto 1-2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Juan, Don (Legendary character)--Poetry.
- Juan.
- Juan, Don (Legendary character).
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Davis, Meyer (donor)
- Davis, Hilda Emery (donor)
- Davis, Meyer, Jr. (honoree)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 227 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 29 cm (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by Thomas Davison, 1819.
- Notes:
- "Of the first edition of the first two Cantos of Don Juan fifteen hundred copies [in quarto] were printed."--Wise.
- Signatures: [A]² B-2F⁴ 2G².
- Local Notes:
- Given to the Penn Libraries in 1966 by Meyer and Hilda Emery Davis in memory of their son, Meyer Davis, Jr.
- 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.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in brown drab boards with untrimmed edges; white paper spine label printed with title and price.
- Penn Libraries copy has ms. bibliographical note in pencil on front pastedown; a few ms. marginal notes and marks in text; some ms. underlining of text in pencil.
- Cited in:
- Wise, T.J. Byron, II, p. 3-4
- Randolph, F.L. Studies for a Byron bibl., p. 69
- OCLC:
- 9665909
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