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Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Six octavo volumes bound in 3 volumes matching full leather bindings of Regency period, decoration on front boards with diamond design, page edges marbled and marbled endpapers, etc. [see photo]. Internally clean and tight, bindings with some light rubs, a couple joints somewhat tender but covers are holding. FIRST VOLUME: Cantos I-II, London: Davison, 1822 "New Edition", title page, [1]-227, [1] pp. Cantos III, IV and V, London: Davison, 1821, First ed. 218 pp. SECOND VOLUME: Cantos VI - VII - and VIII. London: John Hunt, 1823, vii, [3], 184 pp. Cantos IX - X - and XI, London: John Hunt, 1823, 151, [1] pp. THIRD VOLUME: Cantos XII - XIII - and XIV. London: John Hunt, 1823, 168 pp. Cantos XV and XVI. London: John and H.L. Hunt, 1824, 129, [1] pp. All the Hunt printings seem to be First editions, no ads are present
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
BYRON, Lord. Don Juan Cantos I-XVI. Thomas Davison, John Hunt, John and H.L. Hunt, London, 1824.
Price: US$3308.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Six volumes bound in three : (2, blanks) (iv) 227; (iv) 222 (6, colophon & blanks); (4, blanks) x, 184 (2, advertisements); 151 (3, colophon & blanks); (4, blanks) 170; 130 (4, blanks) : marbled endpapers : a.e. marbled : full brown leather : double gilt ruled borders surrounding decorative blind border on boards : gilt lettering to dark brown title and volume panels, gilt borders and decorations to other panels : gilt dentelles. Moderate shelf wear and rubbing to leather; very minor to minor splitting at joints except for 2cm split at crown to lower board of volume one; 3.5cm indent to lower board of same; water stain to final few leaves of volume one, otherwise only occasional soiling and foxing. Early printings of the first two volumes and the rest being first printings of the small paper edition that according to Randolph is scarcer today than the large paper format. [WISE, Byron II, pp.3-8; RANDOLPH, pp. 82-92] Cantos I-II: Thomas Davison, 1823 (First published 1819) Cantos III, IV, V: Thomas Davison, 1822 (Stated Fifth Edition, Revised and Corrected) Cantos VI, VII, VIII: John Hunt, 1823 (with two pages of Advertisements dated July 1823 at the end of Canto VIII) Cantos IX, X, XI: John Hunt, 1823 Cantos XII, XIII, XIV: John Hunt, 1823 (Paper watermarked Whatman Turkey Mills 1823) Cantos XV, XVI: John Hunt and H.L. Hunt, 1824 (Paper watermarked Whatman Turkey Mills 1824).
Seller: Archives Fine Books (ANZAAB, ILAB), Brisbane, QLD, Australia