Research Catalog

Title

The corsair : a tale / by Lord Byron.

Author

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.

Publication

London : Printed by Thomas Davison, for John Murray, 1814.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davison, Thomas.
• John Murray (Firm) pbl

Description

xi, 100 [4] p.; 23 cm.

Note

• 8vo: []⁶, B-G⁸, H², []² [w/ms: 5; 6; 8/W BALSTON/1813]
• 4 pages of publisher's advts. at back.
• The first edition, second issue, with only 100 pages and without the reading 'The End.' on page 100.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• Tinker Library
• Wise, T.J. A Byron Bibliography
• Coleridge, E.H. Works of Lord Byron
• Elkin Mathews Byron and Byroniana
• Colophon
• Butler, Edward K. Illustrated catalogue of notable first editions of English authors
• Anderson Galleries Catalogue of the library of the late Winston H. Hagen

Call Number

Pforz (Byron, G. Corsair. 1814. 1st ed., 2nd issue. London)

OCLC

5297376

Author

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.

Title

The corsair : a tale / by Lord Byron.

Imprint

London : Printed by Thomas Davison, for John Murray, 1814.

Edition

[First edition, second issue].

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Indexed In:

Tinker Library, 541

Wise, T.J. A Byron Bibliography I, p. 92ff.

Coleridge, E.H. Works of Lord Byron VII, p. 201

Elkin Mathews Byron and Byroniana 149

Colophon, Autumn 1936, p. 51-9.

Butler, Edward K. Illustrated catalogue of notable first editions of English authors lot 48

Anderson Galleries Catalogue of the library of the late Winston H. Hagen lot 163

Local Note

Pforzheimer Copy 1: Original gray wrappers, stitched, untrimmed; in CHPL envelope. -- In ink on front paste-down: R Langley - 1814; book-label of Winston H. Hagen; Anderson's Hagen sale, 5/13/18, no. 163.

Pforzheimer Copy 2: Original brown paper wrappers, untrimmed; in brown cloth folder and within brown cloth slip-case with brown morocco back and gilt titling. -- In pencil on h.-t.: St. Ann's Library; American Art Auctions, 4/10/22 (Edward K. Butler), no. 48.

Pforzheimer Copy 3: Original brown paper wrappers, untrimmed; in blue cloth folder, gilt titling at back. -- Rains Gallery, 5/14/36.

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Added Author

Davison, Thomas. Printer

Hagen, Winston H. (Winston Henry), 1859-1918, former owner.

Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, former owner.

John Murray (Firm) Publisher

Research Call Number

Pforz (Byron, G. Corsair. 1814. 1st ed., 2nd issue. London)

*KL (Byron, G. G. N. B. Corsair (1st ed.))