BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. London: John Murray, 1821. 8vo (220 x 134 mm). Half-title, advertisement on verso of last leaf. (Some leaves with pale dampstaining to upper and outer margin.) Later vellum (slightly soiled). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with only 5 1/2 lines in the Doge's speech on p. 151. Byron's tragedy in five acts was first performed in its year of publication. Wise II, p. 29.