Don Leon : a poem by the late Lord Byron and forming part of the private journal of His Lordship, supposed to have been entirely destroyed by Thos. Moore ; to which is added Leon to Annabella, an epistle from Lord Byron to Lady Byron.

Accession number

PML 5900

Published

London : Printed for the booksellers ; [Alençon : Imprimerie veuve Félix Guy], 1866.

Credit line

Purchased with the De Forest collection, 1899.

Notes

Leon to Annabella has special t.p.: Leon to Annabella; an epistle from Lord Byron to Lady Byron, explaining the real cause of eternal separation, and forming the most curious passage in the secret history of the noble poet ... London, 1865.
"Both poems ... are spurious."--T.J. Wise, A Byron library, p. 121.
Falsely attributed to Lord Byron; G. Wilson Knight attributes the authorship to George Colman the younger.--Twentieth Century, July, 1954 and June, 1956.

Description

[4], 52, 63 p., 17, [1], 1 leaves ; 19 cm.

Provenance

George B. De Forest.

Binding

Half blue morocco.

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Don Leon : a poem by the late Lord Byron and forming part of the private journal of His Lordship, supposed to have been entirely destroyed by Thos. Moore ; to which is added Leon to Annabella, an epistle from Lord Byron to Lady Byron.