The Corsair, A Tale: Lara (1817) by Lord Byron - 2009-04-27

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-27. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-27. Paperback. Used:Good.

London : John Murray , 1814. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 9" by 5.5" . None . This popular text of love and adventure has gone on to inspire operas, music and ballets. The first edition, second issue, without printer's imprint to final leaf and without 'To a Lady Weeping' final four leaves as required. Lacking the half title and advertisements. Endpapers and blanks renewed. Written in 1814 this verse tells the story of love and adventure. It follows the story of Conrad a privateer. Byron writes about love, lust and adventure. It is a story of high drama. When published this work was an immediate success and has gone on to inspire operas, music, art and ballets. Inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy Byron draws the reader in. He creates a likable character in Conrad who develops throughout the narrative. Byron focuses on ideas surrounding the outcast and so doing so he goes on to explore issues surrounding social acceptance in relation to class. Rebound in modern cloth. Externally very smart.… Read More

New York: Eastburn, Kirk, and Co, 1814. 1814. Probable first American edition, published in New York. Uncommon, Eastburn, Kirk and Co. often were the American publishers for English works. Very Good condition. Marbled endpapers. Chip missing from one page.

Lord Byron's The Corsair, A Tale. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. 1814 London: John Murray. 1814. 8vo. 108 pp. Bound in light brown calf, with gilt tooling, marbled endpapers. This narrative poem about the pirate Conrad, this poem was ORIGINALLY printed as 108 pages AS IN THIS COPY; the second and third issues were released without the last four leaves containing "To a Lady Weeping," because of the controversy the poem had generated on the very first day after publication of this very first issue. However, Randolph states that all four of the four "issues" of the first edition were available and issued to the public on the same day.

NOTE (as per King's College, London)-- Following Byron's initial requests to his publisher to
make public his authorship of 'Lines to a Lady Weeping'
by publishing the verses with The Corsair, Murray
cautioned on 20 January 1814 that "as the present work
is to be read by women & the lines would disturb the
political feeling, they should instead be slipped quietly
into a… Read More

London: John Murray, 1814. xi, [i], 100pp; Bound with THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS John Murray Fourth edition 1813, 72pp; Bound with THE GIAOUR, A Fragment of A TURKISH TALE 75, [i]pp. Eighth edition, with some additions; Bound with FARE THEE WELL!; A SKETCH, &c; On The STAR OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR; and AN ODE 1816 23, [i]pp. 1st edition. All printed by T. Davidson, Whitefriars, except Fare Thee Well printed by G. Sidney, Northumberland Street, Strand, London. The four books bound in this contemporary full calf binding are all signed by a John Bishop to the head of each title-page. The book block is tight and apart rom the endpapers very clean and unmarked. The last leaf has some foxing and the margins are wide and clean. LACKING THE SPINE AND BOTH BOARDS DETACHED.. 1st edition. Hardback. V.g.. 8vo.