George Gordon Byron, *Don Juan*; *Two Historical Tragedies* [publisher’s imprint, 1885; 1889]

Year of publication: *Don Juan*: 1885; *Two Historical Tragedies*: 1889.

Size: 22 cm.

Volume: Don Juan: XVIII, [3], 22–562, 2 pp.; Two Historical Tragedies: 8, 247, [1] p. [two titles bound together in a single volume]

Binding: Period half-leather.

Two volumes from Salomon Lewental’s series “Library of the Finest Works of European Literature,” bound together. Byron’s “Don Juan” (1818–1824), translated by Edward Porębowicz (1862–1937)—a Romanist and translator of *The Divine Comedy*—is a satirical poem in which adventure, love, and philosophical digressions intertwine with an ironic critique of European governments and customs. “Two Historical Tragedies” consists of “The Two Foscari” and “Marino Faliero,” dramas set in ancient Venice, translated by Feliks Jezierski (1817–1901), translator of, among other works, Goethe’s *Faust*.

The book is in good condition, with minor discoloration.

An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.