Liverpool: The Liverpool Booksellers, 1911. First edition. Read More

London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1793. First Stockdale edition and first with the Blake plates, first issue with the long 's' throughout. With 12 Plates by Blake. A tall copy in contemporary binding of the Stockdale edition of Gay’s Fables with 12 engravings by Blake, who freely adapted his source... Read More

London: Trainon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1970. Copy Number 50 of 882 copies. Read More

London: Quaritch, 1886. No. 40 of 50 copies, signed by Muir. Muir Facsimile. Includes the title-page and All Religions are One, and Muir's own version of the missing plate b5. The "Preface," dated 1886, indicates that the facsimile is based on plates "in the British Museum [copy A] and from... Read More

Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1789. Second edition, "corrected, with additions" The second edition of Bowles' sonnet sequence, which was a major source of inspiration for a young Samuel Taylor Coleridge and helped revive the sonnet form in English.The first edition, published as Fourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive, in 1789, is exceedingly... Read More

Brussels: J. Coché-Mommens, [1824]. Belgian piracy of Paris 1824 edition. Delavigne's Messénienne sur Lord Byron is bound up in a remarkable sämmelband assembled by the famous Byron and Shelley forger Major Byron ("Geo. Gordon Byron"), whose signature is on the titles of several pamphlets. The volume includes seven pamphlets and... Read More

London: Printed by S. Gosnell … for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813. First edition. This poem was for Byron something of an experiment, which is why he adopted a pseudonym. After a rather lukewarm reception, Byron disowned the poem entirely. A small cache of uncut copies was discovered at some... Read More

London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1818. First edition, second issue (see Wise for list of ponts). In the author's estimation, the most successful canto of his masterpiece. Read More

London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, (presumed) first state with recto of E8 (p. 61) blank and with both Murray’s list of Byron’s poems and the imprint on p. 62. Souvenir of Geneva. “There are seven pillars of Gothic mold”Byron's very free interpretation of the imprisonment of sixteenth century Genevan... Read More

London: Printed for Charles Knight, 1824. First edition. Dallas was a miscellaneous writer of modest talent who became friendly with Byron partly on the strength of his sister's marriage to Byron's uncle, George Anson Byron. Byron gave Dallas some letters he had written to his mother during his eastern travels... Read More