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BYRON, George Gordon Noel. Don Juan. Canto I [-XVI]. London: Thomas Davison, 1819-21 [Cantos I-V]; and John Hunt, 1823-24 [Cantos VI-XVI]. -- Don Juan. New Edition. London: Thomas Davison, 1819. Together 7 vols., first volume 4o (290 x 220 mm), the remaining 8o (225 x 138 mm.) Half-titles in the first and second volumes. Omitted stanza XV on p.10, volume 1 supplied in manuscript. (Occasional foxing and light soiling, hole in flyleaf of volume three.) Original drab boards, uncut (rebacked, preserving original paper spine labels); cloth folding case. Provenance: Arthur's Club (stamp on preface leaf in volume 3). FIRST EDITIONS, with publisher's advertisements in all but the first and fifth volumes. Randolph, pp. 69, 82-4, 86-8; Wise Byron I, pp.63-7. (7)