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London: John Murray, 1819. 1st Edition, 2nd Issue . Hardcover. Good +/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 71pp.incl.advert; HB 5-band; brick w/gilt-gilt trim; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; bk.cover detached; some bow; hinges w/tape repair; clean,tight pgs. Contains the first of "A Fragment" (part of ghost story contest that led to 'Frankenstein), also 'Ode on Venice'
Mazeppa, A Poem; Ode (To Venice); A Fragment by Lord Byron - 1819
by Lord Byron
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Mazeppa, A Poem; Ode (To Venice); A Fragment
by Lord Byron
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London: John Murray, 1819. 1st Edition . Very Good. 5.25 x 8.25 inches (13.5 x 21.5 cm). Later red buckram binding with fading to spine and light marking to boards. Book contains volume V of the Works of Lord Byron (1824) followed by the first edition of Mazeppa (1819). This second title also includes Byron's Ode to Venice and A Fragment of a Novel. This final piece is the first printing of his unfinished vampire horror story. Written the same night as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's Vampyre (which was inspired by this fragment) during their ghost story writing contest. This example is lacking the final leaf of ads that contains the imprint, we are therefore unable to determine if this is the first or second state. Light foxing to text. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.25 x 8.25 inches (13.5 x 21.5 cm). Hardback
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Tarrington Books
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- Book Condition Used - Very Good
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- Edition 1st Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher John Murray
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1819
- Keywords Vampire, Dracula, Vampyre, Horror Fiction Horror_SciFi
- Size 5.25 x 8.25 inches (13.5 x 21.5 cm)
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Mazeppa, a Poem
by Byron, Lord
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Mazeppa, A Poem.
by BYRON, Lord
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London: John Murray,, 1819. First edition, second issue, containing the first appearance in print of Byron's "A Fragment" (pp. 59-69), a vampire tale written as part of the ghost story contest that led to Frankenstein (1818). The piece greatly inspired Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), which was misattributed to Byron and frequently printed under his name, much to his displeasure. To prove his original text was different to Polidori's, Byron sent his publisher John Murray the never-to-be-finished "Fragment" with instructions that it should only appear in a periodical. Murray ignored his request and instead appended the text to this edition, afterwards receiving a letter from Byron angrily declaring that "I shall not allow you to play the tricks you did last year with the prose you post-scribed to 'Mazeppa', which I sent to you not to 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). The titular poem is based on the…
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Mazeppa, a Poem
by BYRON, Lord
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London: John Murray, 1819. First Edition. Second issue with p. [70] blank and imprint moved to p. 71 verso. Octavo (22.5cm.); original drab wrappers in custom-made cloth four-flap chemise; [4],71,[1],[8](ads)pp. Light dust-soil, shallow loss to spine foot, very faint contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper. Very Good and sound. WISE I, p. 131-133.
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