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.

Byron Collection in Memory of Meyer Davis, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania)

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.

Penn Provenance:

Davis, Meyer (donor)

Davis, Hilda Emery (donor)

Davis, Meyer, Jr. (honoree)

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:

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. 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 brown drab boards with untrimmed edges; white paper spine label printed with title and price.

Penn Libraries copy has an additional 4 pages of publisher's advertisements ("July, 1823. New and important works, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London.") inserted at beginning of book.

Cited in:

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

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

OCLC:

3377460