Description
Very Good. First Edition, third issue. Octavo, ~5 ½” w x 8 ½” h, 80pp. Rebound in quarter calf with handsome marbled boards and endpapers. Two-line quotation from Hamlet on title page; printer statement on half-title verso and p. 80: “T. Davison, ...” Scattered light foxing and browning. Written on a tour of the Bernese Alps, Byron’s Gothic “metaphysical drama” emerged from the same ghost-story sessions with Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley that inspired Frankenstein.
“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.”
