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BYRON, LORD GEORGE GORDON NOEL. Mazeppa, a Poem. 8vo, original brown paper wrappers, slight loss at head of spine, faint dampstaining near spine,
BYRON, LORD GEORGE GORDON NOEL. Mazeppa, a Poem. 8vo, original brown paper wrappers, slight loss at head of spine, faint dampstaining near spine, otherwise a tight copy; owner's ink signature on front endpaper; cloth slipcase, worn. London: John Murray, 1819
- Notes: first edition, second issue with publisher's imprint on the verso of page 71. Based on Voltaire's popular Romantic tale of the life of Charles XII of Sweden. Contains Byron's eerie story, "Fragment," written during the legendary party in Geneva in 1816 where, at Byron's challenge that they each write a ghost story, Polidori conceived The Vampyre and Mary Shelley created Frankenstein. Wise I, 156.
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