[6], 46 [of 60] pp; 4 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. 1 vols. 8vo (5-1/2 x 8-13/16 inches)
1816 · London
by Byron, Lord (George Gordon)
London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. [6], 46 [of 60] pp; 4 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. 1 vols. 8vo (5-1/2 x 8-13/16 inches). Contemporary brown-grey wrappers. Spine mostly perished, corners chipped, lacking leaves of text following page 46, publisher's advertisements dated November 1816 listing this work as in the press, no watermarks. [6], 46 [of 60] pp; 4 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. 1 vols. 8vo (5-1/2 x 8-13/16 inches). Byron's very free interpretation of the imprisonment of the Sixteenth century Genevan prelate, François de Bonnivard. Byron makes him a hero of religious persecution creating brothers for the prelate to lose under tragic circumstances. Actually, according to one source, he didn't have any brothers lost in this manner and spent most of the time of his imprisonment writing immoral verse. Randolph p. 61; Wise "Byron" I, p. 113 (both for the first edition) (Inventory #: 21269)