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Don Juan
de BYRON, George Gordon, Lord
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First editions, complete in six volumes (Cantos I and II in one large-paper quarto volume: 10 3/4 x 8 inches; 272 x 204 mm; Cantos III-XVI in five octavo volumes: 8 1/8 x
5 1/8 inches; 207 x 129 mm). [4], 227, [1, printer's imprint]; [4], 218, [1, blank], [1, printer's imprint]; vii, [1, blank], [1], [1, blank], 184, [2, ads ("Publications by John Hunt," dated July, 1823)]; 151, [1, printer's imprint]; 168; 129, [1, publisher's imprint], [2, ads ("Published by John and H. L. Hunt," dated March, 1824)] pp. With the half-titles in volumes I and II (no half-titles called for in the last four volumes) and errata slip in volume VI. Bound without publisher's ads in volume IV and one of two ads in volume VI.
Uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorf in full navy polished calf. All volumes rebacked, preserving original spines and labels. Boards triple ruled in gilt. Spines stamped and ruled in gilt. Each spine with two red morocco labels. Gilt dentelles. Board edges gilt. All edges gilt. Silk placeholders. Marbled endpapers. Some chipping to labels of volume I, II, IV. boards with some light rubbing. Some cccasional light foxing, as usual. Otherwise, an excellent and attractive set.
Don Juan, Byron's unfinished epic satire in ottava rima, was published in sixteen cantos between 1819 and 1824. "Don Juan, a young gentleman of Seville, is sent abroad by his mother at the age of 16, in disgrace after an intrigue. His ship is wrecked and the passengers take to the long-boat. After many tribulations, in the course of which first Juan's spaniel and then his tutor are eaten by the crew, Juan is cast up on a Greek island. He is restored to life by Haidée, the daughter of a Greek pirate, and the pair fall in love. The father, who is supposed dead, returns, finds the lovers together, and captures the fighting Juan, who is put in chains on one of the pirate's ships. He is then sold as a slave in Constantinople to a sultana who has fallen in love with him. He arouses her jealousy and is threathened with death, but escapes to the Russian army, which is besieging Ismail. Because of his gallant conduct he is sent with dispatches to St Petersburg, where he attracts the favour of the Empress Catherine, who sends him on a political mission to England. The last cantos (the ‘English cantos') of the unfinished work are taken up with a satirical description of social conditions in England and with the love affairs of Juan...Don Juan himself is a charming, handsome young man, who delights in succumbing to the beautiful women he meets, but his character is little more than the connecting thread in a long social comedy, a poetical novel, of satirical fervour and wit. The first two cantos were ill-received by the critics, who called them ‘an insult and an outrage' and ‘a filthy and impious poem', but the work became increasingly successful with the general public and was much admired by Goethe, who translated a part of it" (The Oxford Companion to English Literature).
Ashley Library I, pp. 157-159. Tinker 571. Wise, Byron, II, pp. 3-8.
HBS 68418.
$8,000.
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Byron’s exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favorite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written in ottava rima stanza form, Byron’s Don Juan blends high drama with earthy humor, outrageous satire of his contemporaries, and sharp mockery of Western societies, with England coming under particular attack. This authoritative edition now includes a completely new and substantially longer introduction that discusses the mythology of the Byronic hero Extensive annotation covers points of interest, selected variant readings, and the historical allusions Byron wove into his poem
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- Título
- Don Juan
- Autor
- BYRON, George Gordon, Lord
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- Usado
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- Printed by Thomas Davison
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1819
- Palabras clave
- English Literature|Poetry|Nineteenth-Century Literature|Love and Romance
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