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Lord Byron
Don Juan. Cantos 1-2
London : Printed by Thomas Davison, 1819.

The anonymous first edition of the first instalment to be published of Byron's masterpiece. Fifteen hundred copies were initially produced and Byron was paid £1525 for the copyright, the staggering sum for the time.

Don Juan