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1920. Erstausgabe (1. - 10. Tsd.), Lpz., Insel (= Pandora No. 15), o.J. [1920], 8°, 115 S., Text: englisch, illustr. original Pappband mit Deckel- und Rückenschild, längere Widmung auf Vorsatzseite, Rücken und innen (wie immer) papierbedingt gebräunt, sonst gutes, sauberes Exemplar. Should your order's weight exceed 1kg, we shall need to message you, to recalculate the shipping cost. (= Sollte Ihre Bestellung mehr als 1k wiegen, müssten die Portokosten angepasst werden, Sie bekämen vorab eine Anfrage per Email.)

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London: John Murray. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Half dark blue calf, raised bands and gilt tooled spine, brown label (chipped) ; marbled boards, endpages and edges. PO name to title page. Mild rubbing/wear to board edges/faces. Some foxing concentrated at front/rear. Firm binding/hinges. This is the first issue with the Doge's speech p. 151 covering five and a half lines. Pp. Xxi, 261, with half-title. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1821. [Tragedy] FIRST PARIS EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[4]; 271; [1]. Brown half calf, Shell marbled paper over boards. Grey label with gilt titles, gilt bands, and blind-tooled designs to spine. Edges speckled black. Blue endpapers. Original bookmarking ribbon loosely inserted. Interior bright, though moderately spotted and foxed throughout. Endpapers toned with some discolouration. Bookplate to front paste-down, faint pencil marks to rear paste-down. Top edge toned. Some rubbing to marbled boards, light soiling to calf. Minor wear to joints and binding extremities. Very good. After visiting the Palazzo Ducale and glimpsing the shrouded portrait of the disgraced former doge Marino Faliero, Byron conceived this drama presenting the story behind his failed coup d'etat in 1355. The ploy is widely thought to have begun when the patrician youth Michele Steno carved an insult about Faliero's wife into the doge's throne.

London: John Murray, 1821. xxi + 261 pages + (1) page of publisher's announcements at back, listing the titles of Byron; couple of leaves of the "Notes" on Dante piece unopened; page 151 with the longer speech by the Doge, indicating the second issue of the first edition; George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824), English poet, "...greatness lies not so much that he created a world of fantasy but that he learnt to escape back to reality. He belongs more to the humorists and realists such as Voltaire and Swift than to his contemporaries..." (Chambers); previous owner pencil name on the endpaper of T. B. Felder, Jr. Greenwich Conn. and a few pencil notes in text of preliminary matter; original blue paper covered boards; about disbound, spine perished; boards worn & soiled; contents very fresh and clean; a good candidate for a rebinding.. First Edition, Second Issue. Hard Cover. Good.

London:: John Murray,, 1821.. First edition.. original boards with printed paper label on spine.. Some scattered inoffensive spotting; front joint starting; very attractive original condition.. 8vo,. Wise II, 29.

London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition, First Issue. Hardcover. Octavo, xxi, 261, [3] pages; VG-; newly rebacked with brown cloth, previous paper boards preserved, new green leather label with gilt titling; some rubbing and wear to boards, bumping to corners; fore and lower edges of text block uncut; crayon initials to sfep; mild foxing throughout; First edition, first issue, with page 151 having the Doge's speech five and one-half lines long; shelved case 0. 1348041. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

London: John Murray, 1821. First edition, first issue (with speech on p. 151 beginning: "What crimes?"), 8vo, pp. [2], xxi, [1], 261, [1], [2], 6, [2] (10pp. ads); uncut and partially unopened; original drab paper-covered boards, paper label on spine; both spine and label partially perished, upper board starting, textblock clean and sound. Wise II p. 29.

John Murray, London, 1821 XXI, [1], 261, [1] printed pages. The first issue with the Doge's speech on page 151 consisting of only five and a half lines and only 21 lines on page 154. Set in Venice in 1355, "Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice" is a blank verse tragedy in five acts by Lord Byron, who was inspired to take on this subject when, on examining the portraits of the Doges in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, he discovered that the portrait of Faliero had been blacked out. The first of Byron's two Venetian plays, a well-documented historical drama about the Doge who turned traitor to the Venetian Republic. Marino Faliero, recently elected Doge of Venice, offends one of the chief officers of state, Michel Steno. Steno retaliates by writing on the Doge's throne an indecent libel on Faliero's wife. For this he is tried by the Council of Forty and convicted, but is only sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Faliero is so outraged by this, as he believes, inadequate punishment… Read More

London: John Murray, 1821. First edition, first issue (Doge's speech at p. 151 is only 5-1/2 lines). xxi, 261, [262, imprint], [2, ads, recto blank] 4 ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Later boards, untrimmed. First edition, first issue (Doge's speech at p. 151 is only 5-1/2 lines). xxi, 261, [262, imprint], [2, ads, recto blank] 4 ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Wise, "Byron" II, pp. 29-30

London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition, First Issue, with Doge's speech p. 151 that begins "What crimes ?" consisting of 5 1/2 lines. In the original paper covered boards, paper label at spine, label with small chip yet still quite legible, bookplate of Victor Travers-Smith M.D. front paste down, early hand-written name front board, edgewear to boards mostly confined to bottom edges, end pages moderately foxed and stained and internally free of foxing, overall a quite readable and pleasant copy with sound hinges and in the original binding, and uncommon thus. . First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John Murray, 1821. First edition, first issue of Byron's posthumously published tragedy with the Doge's speech on p. 151 that begins "What crimes ?" Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with a black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine and panels, marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice is a blank verse tragedy in five acts by Lord Byron, published and first performed in 1821. Byron was inspired to take on this subject when, on examining the portraits of the Doges in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, he discovered that the portrait of Faliero had been blacked out. The main historical source he drew on was Marino Sanuto's Vite dei Dogi (published posthumously 1733). He completed the play in July 1820, by which time he was living in Ravenna, and published it in April 1821, along with his The Prophecy of Dante. He intended to dedicate it to Goethe, but delays in the post between Italy and England resulted in the play being published… Read More