Accession number
PML 142284.2
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Published
London : John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1818.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
First edition. Passed through various states before it reached its final errorless condition. Through all these states the type was never reset, only a word or letter changed here and there, or a few lines added or elided, with other lines shifted to cover the changes. Cf. "Printing of Canto IV," by W.H. McCarthy, Yale University Library gazette, 1 (1927) : 39-41.
Library's copy is the fifth issue, with no list of errata on p. 236.
"T. Davison, Lombard-Street, Whitefriars, London"--T.p. verso.
Signatures: A-R⁸ S².
Library copy lacks the publisher's advertisements on p. [259-260].
Library's copy is the fifth issue, with no list of errata on p. 236.
"T. Davison, Lombard-Street, Whitefriars, London"--T.p. verso.
Signatures: A-R⁸ S².
Library copy lacks the publisher's advertisements on p. [259-260].
Description
xiii, [3], 257, [3] p. ; 23 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of Sarah Broom; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
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