Don Juan Cantos I-XVI

London: Thomas Davison, John Hunt, John and H.L. Hunt, 1824. First Small Paper Edition. Good. Six volumes bound in three : (2, blanks) (iv) 227; (iv) 222 (6, colophon & blanks); (4, blanks) x, 184 (2, advertisements); 151 (3, colophon & blanks); (4, blanks) 170; 130 (4, blanks) : marbled endpapers : a.e. marbled : full brown leather : double gilt ruled borders surrounding decorative blind border on boards : gilt lettering to dark brown title and volume panels, gilt borders and decorations to other panels : gilt dentelles.

Moderate shelf wear and rubbing to leather; very minor to minor splitting at joints except for 2cm split at crown to lower board of volume one; 3.5cm indent to lower board of same; water stain to final few leaves of volume one, otherwise only occasional soiling and foxing. Early printings of the first two volumes and the rest being first printings of the small paper edition that according to Randolph is scarcer today than the large paper format. [WISE, Byron II, pp.3-8; RANDOLPH, pp. 82-92]

Cantos I-II: Thomas Davison, 1823 (First published 1819)
Cantos III, IV, V: Thomas Davison, 1822 (Stated Fifth Edition, Revised and Corrected)
Cantos VI, VII, VIII: John Hunt, 1823 (with two pages of Advertisements dated July 1823 at the end of Canto VIII)
Cantos IX, X, XI: John Hunt, 1823
Cantos XII, XIII, XIV: John Hunt, 1823 (Paper watermarked Whatman Turkey Mills 1823)
Cantos XV, XVI: John Hunt and H.L. Hunt, 1824 (Paper watermarked Whatman Turkey Mills 1824).