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Lord Byron's The Corsair, A Tale. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. 1814 London: John Murray. 1814. 8vo. 108 pp. Bound in light brown calf, with gilt tooling, marbled endpapers. This narrative poem about the pirate Conrad, this poem was ORIGINALLY printed as 108 pages AS IN THIS COPY; the second and third issues were released without the last four leaves containing "To a Lady Weeping," because of the controversy the poem had generated on the very first day after publication of this very first issue. However, Randolph states that all four of the four "issues" of the first edition were available and issued to the public on the same day.

NOTE (as per King's College, London)-- Following Byron's initial requests to his publisher to
make public his authorship of 'Lines to a Lady Weeping'
by publishing the verses with The Corsair, Murray
cautioned on 20 January 1814 that "as the present work
is to be read by women & the lines would disturb the
political feeling, they should instead be slipped quietly
into a… Read More

First edition of the rare illustrated description of Hindostan by the Belgian Painter Francois Balthazar Solvyns.
Folio (384 x 270 mm). Text in English and French; 60 hand-colored engraved plates by Scott or Vivares after Solvyns watermarked 1800, 1802, or 1804, occasionally with tissue guards. Contemporary red morocco-backed boards, red morocco corners, sides with central gilt "E A" cypher, smooth spine gilt, uncut (short vertical tear on spine panel, a few neat repairs to spine ends). The text is in English and French, there is very slight offsetting from plate to text.
Provenance: Eugène Rose de Beauharnais (1781-1824), French general in the Napoleonic Wars, and Viceroy of Italy (cypher on binding); Princess Augusta Amalia Ludovika Georgia of Bavaria (1788-1851), wife of Eugène Rose de Beauharnais and daughter of Napoleon's ally Maximilian I of Bavaria (cypher on binding); Eugene de Savitsch (bookplate dated 1948).
Solvyns was a Belgian painter and engraver who lived in Calcutta from 1791 to… Read More