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Price: US$42.33 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Final ad. leaf; without half title. Disbound. Contemp. signature of F.H. Talbot on title. A nice clean copy. Randolph p.73; Wise II.30. Variant A, with the Doge's speech on p.151 in eleven lines and p.101 misnumbered 110.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.03 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title with small closed tear in upper right corner, final ad. leaf. Disbound. Ownership inscription, G.B. Wharton, 1821, on half title. Randolph p.73; Wise II.30. Variant A, with the Doge's speech on p.151 in eleven lines and p.101 misnumbered 110.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$82.68 + shipping
Description: Poor binding copy with wear, tear and dust-dulling as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; xxi, [1], 261, [3] p. ; 23 cm. (8vo.) Subjects; Faliero, Marino 1278?-1355 Drama. Dante Alighieri 1265-1321. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$92.36 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Occasional spotting throughout. Purple-brown glazed binders cloth, spine lettered in gilt; spine faded to brown & chipped at head, cloth lifting sl. at head of front hinge. Ink ownership inscription on leading f.e.p. Randolph p.73; Wise II.30. Variant A, with the Doge's speech on p.151 in eleven lines and p.101 misnumbered 110. Without half title or final ad leaf.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half dark blue calf, raised bands and gilt tooled spine, brown label (chipped) ; marbled boards, endpages and edges. PO name to title page. Mild rubbing/wear to board edges/faces. Some foxing concentrated at front/rear. Firm binding/hinges. This is the first issue with the Doge's speech p. 151 covering five and a half lines. Pp. Xxi, 261, with half-title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Poor binding copy with wear, tear and dust-dulling as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; xxi, [1], 261, [3] p. ; 23 cm. (8vo.) Subjects; Faliero, Marino 1278?-1355 Drama. Dante Alighieri 1265-1321. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$106.47 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 1st issue. Sl. spotting. Disbound. Randolph p.73; Wise II.29-30. With the Doge's Speech on p.151 in 5½ lines.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xxi + 261 pages + (1) page of publisher's announcements at back, listing the titles of Byron; couple of leaves of the "Notes" on Dante piece unopened; page 151 with the longer speech by the Doge, indicating the second issue of the first edition; George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824), English poet, ".greatness lies not so much that he created a world of fantasy but that he learnt to escape back to reality. He belongs more to the humorists and realists such as Voltaire and Swift than to his contemporaries." (Chambers); previous owner pencil name on the endpaper of T. B. Felder, Jr. Greenwich Conn. and a few pencil notes in text of preliminary matter; original blue paper covered boards; about disbound, spine perished; boards worn & soiled; contents very fresh and clean; a good candidate for a rebinding.
Seller: Certain Books, ABAA, Bolivia, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: xxi, 261 [1] [1, ads] pp. 8vo, original boards with printed paper label on spine. First edition. Wise II, 29. Some scattered inoffensive spotting; front joint starting; very attractive original condition.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, xxi, 261, [3] pages; VG-; newly rebacked with brown cloth, previous paper boards preserved, new green leather label with gilt titling; some rubbing and wear to boards, bumping to corners; fore and lower edges of text block uncut; crayon initials to sfep; mild foxing throughout; First edition, first issue, with page 151 having the Doge's speech five and one-half lines long; shelved case 0. 1348041. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$211.66 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 1st issue. Half title. Uncut in orig. drab boards, well rebacked retaining orig. label; corners a little rubbed. Bookseller's ticket on front board: Hodges & McArthur, College Green Dublin. Randolph p.73; Wise II.29-30. With the Doge's Speech on p.151 in 5½ lines.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$220.48 + shipping
Description: London, John Murray, 1821. XXI, 261 S., 1 Bl. (Verlags-Anz.). Gr.-8vo (23 x 14,5 cm). InterimsPp. d. Zt. mit RSch. First edition, second issue/ Erste erweiterte Ausgabe (S. 151 u. 154 um mehrere Zeilen ergänzt) (Wise, "Byron" II, p. 30). - Vgl. Wilpert, Lex. d. Weltlit., S. 262. - Im selben Jahr erschienen spätere Ausgaben in Paris u. Philadelphia. - Einband schadhaft u. gelockert, NaVuT, stellenw. stockfleckig
Seller: Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel, Hamburg, Germany
Price: US$253.99 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, final ad. leaf. Uncut in orig. pale blue boards, drab spine, paper label; spine chipped at head & a little darkened, leading hinge worn in places. Bookseller's ticket on front board: Milliken of Dublin. Signature of Harriet F. St. Leger on half title, May 1821. A good-plus copy. Randolph p.73; Wise II.30. Variant A, with the Doge's speech on p.151 in eleven lines and p.101 misnumbered 110.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue (with speech on p. 151 beginning: "What crimes?"), 8vo, pp. [2], xxi, [1], 261, [1], [2], 6, [2] (10pp. ads); uncut and partially unopened; original drab paper-covered boards, paper label on spine; both spine and label partially perished, upper board starting, textblock clean and sound. Wise II p. 29.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$352.76 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, final ad. leaf. Uncut in orig. drab boards, paper label; head & tail of spine sl. chipped, hinges & corners a little worn. Booklabel & signature of Alex Bridge. A nice copy as originally issued. Randolph p.73; Wise II.30. Variant A, with the Doge's speech on p.151 in eleven lines and p.101 misnumbered 110.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$457.78 + shipping
Description: Tall octavo, missing both half-titles, 'Marino Faliero' without terminal ad.; contemporary green half morocco, gilt, Attractive volume of two important works by Byron. First edition, first issue of Marino Faliero: the Doge's speech on page 151 consists of only five and a half lines (Byron added seven new lines for the second issue) and page 154 has only twenty-one lines; in the second issue there are twenty-five lines. Set in Venice in 1355, it is the story of 'a man of talents and of courage' and, as the preface and appendix attest, of a figure who fascinated Byron. It is bound with the first edition, first issue of Werner (without imprint or 'The End' on the terminal page). Dedicated 'To the illustrious Goëthe', it is one of Byron's most important works, and again takes as its motivation the tragedy of the great man assailed by the forces of the world. Byron notes in the preface, 'When I was young (about fourteen, I think) I first read this tale, which made a deep impression on me; and may, indeed, be said to contain the germ of much that I have since written'. . Rubbed at joints and extremities.
Seller: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
Price: US$481.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: XXI, [1], 261, [1] printed pages. The first issue with the Doge's speech on page 151 consisting of only five and a half lines and only 21 lines on page 154. Set in Venice in 1355, "Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice" is a blank verse tragedy in five acts by Lord Byron, who was inspired to take on this subject when, on examining the portraits of the Doges in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, he discovered that the portrait of Faliero had been blacked out. The first of Byron's two Venetian plays, a well-documented historical drama about the Doge who turned traitor to the Venetian Republic. Marino Faliero, recently elected Doge of Venice, offends one of the chief officers of state, Michel Steno. Steno retaliates by writing on the Doge's throne an indecent libel on Faliero's wife. For this he is tried by the Council of Forty and convicted, but is only sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Faliero is so outraged by this, as he believes, inadequate punishment that he secretly joins in the conspiracy of a group of malcontents to overthrow the constitution of Venice, thinking thereby to gain revenge on his enemies. The plot is discovered and Faliero is executed. Published along with his poem based on Dante's exile and death in Ravenna. Written at Ravenna during the month of June 1819, "The Prophecy of Dante" was intended for the Italians as a vision of "liberty and the resurrection of Italy" (see Medwin, "Conversations," (1824), page 241). Bound with a third edition, 1821, of Letter to **** ******, on the Rev. W.L. Bowles' Strictures on the Life and Writings of Pope, 61 printed pages, London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street. 2500 copies of the entire edition printed. The Strictures appeared in Bowles's 1806 edition of Pope. Bound with Mazeppa, a Poem, first edition, 1819, London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street. [2], 71 printed pages. Second Issue with p. 70 blank and publisher's imprint moved to reverse of p. 71. Byron's narrative poem based on the early life of Ivan Mazeppa, a Ukrainian military leader who served in the Polish court but was, at least according to legend, strapped naked to a wild horse and exiled for having an affair. The volume also contains the short poem "Ode" and the short prose piece, "Fragment of a Novel", pages [57]-69, Byron's unfinished vampire tale written during the same three-day stormy writing contest at the Villa Diodati in June 1816 by Lake Geneva that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and John Polidori's The Vampyre (itself considered the first English vampire story, though based largely on Byron and his Fragment). The unfinished piece was included with Mazeppa against Byron's wishes. In 1820 he wrote to Murray, "I shall not allow you to play the tricks you did last year with the prose you post-scribed to 'Mazeppa', which I sent you to not be published, if not in a periodical paper,--and there you tacked it, without a word of explanation, and be damned to you." [Wise p.132]. Some very mild browning on ocassional leaves. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Rebound in half calf. Spine in six compartments, with raised bands and double gilt rules & red morocco label with gilt lettering. The boards are in marbled papers and the corners are blind ruled. All edges with contemporary marbling. A three-books-in-one combination of two first and one third editions of Lord Byron in very good condition with a beautiful modern binding in a nineteenth century design.
Seller: Jason Burley, Camden Lock Books, ABA, ILAB & IOBA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; [ASSOCIATION COPY - Queen Adelaide with her bookplate and signature] 1821 & 1823. John Murray & John Hunt. Two volumes in one, including the more difficult John Hunt published "The Island". 1st edition, 1st variant of Marino Faliero with Doge speech in 151 in 5 1/2 lines. Soundly bound in period 1/2 polished calf over marbled paper boards; ruling across spine in gilt and blind with black morocco title label. "Faliero" bound with half-title but lacking ad leaf at rear; "Island" lacking half-title and adverts leaf at rear. xxi,[1],261,[1]pp.; [3-7], 8-94 pp. Some several pages of "Island" with evidence of rough opening at the front edge, missing some shallow chips in the front margins of about 5 leaves. Text block slightly trimmed for binding. Adelaide's signature on the right side of the title page has loss of some of the flourish and the final "e' is a little clipped. Her cut paper bookplate is mounted to the front pastedown. Some light foxing to the front and rear lining sheets. An old manuscript notation to the top edge of the front pastedown, presumably from a books dealer - "First Edition" is signed "L. S. Cockell" [?]. Some mild scuffing to the leather front corners and light rubbing to surfaces of the marbled paper boards. VG
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue (Doge's speech at p. 151 is only 5-1/2 lines). xxi, 261, [262, imprint], [2, ads, recto blank] 4 ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Wise, "Byron" II, pp. 29-30 xxi, 261, [262, imprint], [2, ads, recto blank] 4 ads. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, first issue (Doge's speech at p. 151 is only 5-1/2 lines).
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
George Gordon, Lord Byron. Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. London: John Murray, 1821.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 261 pp. Leather spine, corners, and hinges; marbled paper over boards. Four raised bands on the spine. Some material of pp. 151-152 (lower margin) is missing, but the text is not affected. Some wear to the leather of the spine. This is not the first issue with the speech of 5 ½ lines on p. 151. Penciled name at top of title page. Booksellers ticket on the rear paste-down of W. & G. Foyle, London.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$876.41 + shipping
Description: Finely bound in contemporary half-calf over marble boards. Gilt cross-bands with the title blocked direct. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Minor, generalized wear and toning to the extremities. Scans and additional detail on request. ; 261 pages; 1st Issue with all points confirmed [Dodge's 5 & a half line speech on p. 151) . Bookplate of Capt. T. L. Seaton with his inked stamp to both the title and half-title. Referenced by: Stratman 837. Wise, T. J. V.2 p.29-30. Physical desc. : xxi [1], 261 [3]p. ; 20.6cm. Subjects: Faliero, Marino, 1274-1355 - Drama. Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 - In literature. Venice (Italy) in literature. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$964.00 + shipping
Description: Finely bound in contemporary half-calf over marble boards. Gilt cross-bands with the title blocked direct. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Minor, generalized wear and toning to the extremities. Scans and additional detail on request. ; 261 pages; 1st Issue with all points confirmed [Dodge's 5 & a half line speech on p. 151) . Bookplate of Capt. T. L. Seaton with his inked stamp to both the title and half-title. Referenced by: Stratman 837. Wise, T. J. V.2 p.29-30. Physical desc. : xxi [1], 261 [3]p. ; 20.6cm. Subjects: Faliero, Marino, 1274-1355 - Drama. Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 - In literature. Venice (Italy) in literature. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue of Byron's posthumously published tragedy with the Doge's speech on p. 151 that begins "What crimes ?" Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with a black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine and panels, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice is a blank verse tragedy in five acts by Lord Byron, published and first performed in 1821. Byron was inspired to take on this subject when, on examining the portraits of the Doges in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, he discovered that the portrait of Faliero had been blacked out. The main historical source he drew on was Marino Sanuto's Vite dei Dogi (published posthumously 1733). He completed the play in July 1820, by which time he was living in Ravenna, and published it in April 1821, along with his The Prophecy of Dante. He intended to dedicate it to Goethe, but delays in the post between Italy and England resulted in the play being published without a dedication. The posthumous 1832 edition of Byron's collected works included a later dedication of the play by Byron to his friend Douglas Kinnaird. Marino Faliero was translated into French in 1830 and into Italian in 1838.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$3104.28 + shipping
Description: A single sheet printed on cheap greenish paper; sl. chipped & creased at edges, with traces of one old fold. A good copy. Elliston's unsigned self-justification is described by Christopher Murray in his biography as "one of his famous handbills". It is headed 'Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Monday, April 30, 1821' and was unknown to Arnott & Robinson, in whose bibliography it is related to items 3847 and 3848. Elliston, the manager of Drury Lane, obtained a printed copy of Byron's play, having failed to get permission from Byron himself or John Murray to stage the work. With nominal permission from George Lambe on the Drury Lane Committee, Elliston submitted a heavily censored text to the Lord Chamberlain for licensing: 'we have so curtailed [it] that I believe not a single objectionable line exists'. (This text is now in the Huntington Library.) The play was staged on 25th April 1821 with a nondescript and under-rehearsed cast of John Cooper as Marino, Wallack as Bertuccio, and Mrs West as Angiolina. Elliston in this bill states that 'No impression could have been more forcible: no applause more genuine, or perfect' but contemporary reviews were unfavourable and hostile, the public disapproving and the receipts less than might have been expected. After the first performance John Murray obtained an injunction in Chancery prohibiting further performances before April 30th, but Elliston's position was legally correct, and he issued this piece of effrontery, poorly printed at the Theatre's own press, before the five further performances, taking full advantage of Byron's exile. CBEL 3 - attributes to Byron a 'Letter to R.W. Elliston on the injustice and illegality of his conduct in presenting Lord Byron's tragedy Marino Faliero' (1821). PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom