MAZEPPA, A POEM.
Byron, George G.N., Lord:
London: John Murray, 1819. [6],[5]-71,[1]pp. Later boards, gilt lettered spine label. Extremities rubbed, bound without the half- title and inserted catalogue, usual scattered foxing, with small adhesion mark at edge of lower margins of B1-2, otherwise near very good. First edition, second issue, with the imprint transferred from p.70 (now blank) to the verso of p.71. Byron began the appended prose "Fragment" (which Murray included here without Byron's consent) on the same evening Mary Shelley began FRANKENSTEIN. Although he abandoned any further progress on it, it provided the seed of inspiration for Polidori's THE VAMPYRE. The first edition encompassed 8000 copies. RANDOLPH, pp.70-1. WISE I, 132-3. TINKER 570. BLEILER (SUPERNATURAL) 320.
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