1813-1821 The Works of Lord Byron, with Polidori's 'Vampyre'

Description

Early Edition, First Edition, Leather Binding

To the rear of volume V appears the first edition, third 'Sherwood, Neely and Jones' imprint, fifth issue overall (Viets IV) of John Polidori's 'Vampyre'.

With pages i-xvi reset and with twenty-three lines to each page, with 'lmost' to tail of page 36, and with no mention of Mary Godwin and Clair Clairmont to page xix.

With the original half title.

Polidori's important tale is viewed as establishing the vampire as a stock figure of gothic fiction, but authorship was initially erroneously attributed to Byron himself.. 

Also present here, authored by Byron and published by John Murray, are:

The 1813 third edition of 'The Giaour, A Turkish Tale'.

The 1813 second edition of 'The Bride of Abydos, a Turkish Tale'.

The 1814 first edition, second issue of 'The Corsair', without the imprint to page 100. Retaining the original half title.

The 1814 fourth edition of 'Lara', retaining the original half title.

The 1816 first edition of 'The Siege of Corinth. A Poem. Parisina. A Poem'. Retaining the original half title, and terminal 'notes' leaf.

The 1815 tenth edition of 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', retaining the original half title.

The 1816 first edition of 'The Prisoner of Chillon'. Undetermined issue, as Murray's list of poems and final advertisement leaves lacking.

The 1816 twelfth edition of 'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte', retaining the original half title.

The 1815 first edition of 'Hebrew Melodies'. Retaining the original half title. Undetermined issue, as the identifying final advertisement leaves are lacking.

The 1816 first edition, first issue of 'Poems'. Consistent with the first issue, this copy lacks the poem "To Samuel Rogers", and the unnumbered final leaf C4 has the Notes on the recto. Retaining the original half title.

An 1817 'New Edition' of 'Monody on the Death of the Right Honourable R. B. Sheridan'. Retaining the original half title. With a terminal advertisement leaf.

The 1817 first edition, third issue of 'Manfred', identified with the two line Hamlet quote to the title page. Retaining the original half title.

The 1817 fifth edition of 'The Lament of Tasso'. Retaining the original half title.

The 1818 fifth edition of 'Beppo, a Venetian Story'. Retaining the original half title. With a terminal advertisement leaf.

The 1819 first edition, second issue of 'Mazeppa'. With final advertisement leaf with imprint to verso.

The first edition, second issue, first variant of 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third', 1816. With advertisement leaf.

A first edition, later issue of the 1818 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth'. 10,000 copies of the first edition were produced, with their being five different issues within this print run.

The 1821 first edition, first issue of 'Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice'. First issue, with the Doge's speech on page 151 beginning "What crimes ?".

The 1821 first edition, first state of 'Sardanapalus, A Tragedy. The Two Foscari, a Tragedy. Cain, A Mystery'. With fly title reading 'Sardanapalus'.