first edition
1817 · London
by BYRON, Lord (George Gordon)
London: John Murray, 1817. First Edition, third issue (with quote from "Hamlet" on the title-page). demi 8vo, pp. vi, [7]-80, ii. Bound in drab publisher's paper wraps (separate), untrimmed. little foxed, but a very good copy. Wise, p.123. Tinker 565. Benet notes: "The hero, Count Manfred, sells himself to the Prince of Darkness and lives wholly without human sympathies in splendid solitude in the Alps"[p. 627]. (Inventory #: 49228)