Don Juan
Subtitle: with A Biographical Account of Lord Byron and his family; anecdotes of his Lordship’s travels and residence in Greece, at Geneva, &c. Including, also, a sketch of the vampyre family. Embellished with a portrait of His Lordship [...] Canto III
Publisher: Printed for William Wright W. Shackell, Printer
Published: 1819
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
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Full title:</b> Don Juan: with A Biographical Account of Lord Byron and his family; anecdotes of his Lordship’s travels and residence in Greece, at Geneva, &amp;c. Including, also, a sketch of the vampyre family. Embellished with a portrait of His Lordship, from an original drawing. Canto III.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. viii, 156. Signatures: [A]4 B-U4 X2. Contemporary half calf. Bound with reprints of Cantos I and II of Don Juan, with manuscript notes by Thomas Caldecott. The frontispiece portrait has been transferred to the beginning of the volume.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">The spurious ‘Canto III’, with other Byroniana, is described in T.J. Wise, The Ashley Library. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters. London, 1826, vol. VIII, p.70, but is not in S.C. Chew, Byron in England: his fame and after-fame. London, 1924: it is not identical with the forgery of the same year ascribed to William Hone.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103419" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>