TWO WORKS OF LORD GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts...The Prophecy of Dante, 2 works in one volume, FIRST EDITION, first issue with only 5 ½ lines of Doge’s speech on p. 151, half title, without advertisement leaf at end, steel engraved frontispiece depicting ‘The Dogana’, and 4 other plates, including hand-coloured portraits of Angiolina and Beatrice, from ‘The Doge of Venice’ and the ‘Prophecy of Dante’, respectively, tissue guard, ownership note of Thomas Palmer 1858 on half title, occasional spotting, minor tearing, contemporary blue gran morocco, over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, spine rubbed, [Wise II, 29], 4to, John Murray 1821; with Il Corsaro. Novella…Versione in prosa di L.C., second edition, half title, lithograph frontispiece, title within frame, publisher’s catalogue, some spotting, half calf, a.e.r., a little stained, extremities rubbed, Rodolfo Vismara, Milan, 1820 (2). *** Like Hoffman and Delavigne, Byron fictionalised the character of the Doganessa Falier of Venice, renaming her ‘Angiolina’.
TWO WORKS OF LORD GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts...The Prophecy of Dante, 2 works in one volume, FIRST EDITION, first issue with only 5 ½ lines of Doge’s speech on p. 151, half title, without advertisement leaf at end, steel engraved frontispiece depicting ‘The Dogana’, and 4 other plates, including hand-coloured portraits of Angiolina and Beatrice, from ‘The Doge of Venice’ and the ‘Prophecy of Dante’, respectively, tissue guard, ownership note of Thomas Palmer 1858 on half title, occasional spotting, minor tearing, contemporary blue gran morocco, over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, spine rubbed, [Wise II, 29], 4to, John Murray 1821; with Il Corsaro. Novella…Versione in prosa di L.C., second edition, half title, lithograph frontispiece, title within frame, publisher’s catalogue, some spotting, half calf, a.e.r., a little stained, extremities rubbed, Rodolfo Vismara, Milan, 1820 (2). *** Like Hoffman and Delavigne, Byron fictionalised the character of the Doganessa Falier of Venice, renaming her ‘Angiolina’.
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