The prisoner of Chillon, and other poems
George Gordon Byron Byron (Author), Thomas Davison (Printer), John Murray (Firm) (Publisher), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Print Book, English, 1816
[First edition, first issue] View all formats and editions
Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street, London, 1816
Poetry
6 unnumbered pages, 60 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm (8vo)
6018040
Sonnet on Chillon
The prisoner of Chillon
Sonnet
Stanzas to
Darkness
Churchill's grave
The dream
The incantation
Prometheus
Notes
Manufacture statement from verso of half title
Publisher's advertisements on verso of half title and verso of last printed leaf
This edition is known to exist in two issues. In this, the first issue, the recto of signature E8 (the final printed leaf) is blank, and publishers' advertisements for Byron's poems appear on the verso. In the second issue, the publishers' advertisements are transferred from the verso to the recto of final leaf, and the printer's imprint is raised from the foot to the center of the page (see Wise)
Signatures: [A]² B-E⁸