1822-24 Don Juan

Description

Original Binding

Lord Byron's complete 'Don Juan', in the publisher's original paper boards.

This set including the first editions of Cantos VI to XVI.

Volume I, Cantos I. and II., published by Thomas Davison in 1823, the first octavo edition. Originally published in a large paper format in 1819. Half-title is present 

Volume II, Cantos III., IV., and V, the fifth edition published by Thomas Davison in 1822. Half-title is present. 

Volume III, Cantos VI., VII., and VIII., the first edition, published by John Hunt in 1823. Issued without a half-title. Two pages of adverts to the rear, dated July 1823.

Volume IV, Cantos IX., X., and XI., the first edition, published by John Hunt in 1823. Issued without a half-title. Four pages of adverts to the rear, dated September 1823.

Volume V, Cantos XII., XIII., and XIV., the first edition, published by John Hunt in 1823. Issued without a half-title. Two pages of adverts to the rear, dated December 1823.

Volume VI, Cantos XV. and XVI., the first edition, published by John Hunt in 1824. Issued without a half-title. Including 'errors of the press' note to the rear, and four pages of notes to the rear. Two pages of adverts to the rear, dated March 1824, erratum slip bound in to the rear.

Collated, complete.

'Don Juan' is Lord Byron's satirical epic poem, an important feat of Romantic poetry. Byron portrays Don Juan as a man easily seduced by women, rather than a womaniser. The character, but not the plot, is taken from the legendary Spanish libertine figure.

Byron's poem is written in ottava rima across sixteen cantos. Upon the publication of the first cantos in 1819 the poem was criticized as immoral.