Don Juan (Cantos I and II)

Because Murray's name did not appear in the book, he had little legal recourse against the unauthorized reprints that quickly followed. Murray himself later published Cantos III-V (1821) but then refused the increasingly controversial later cantos, which Byron placed instead with the publisher John Hunt, who issued Cantos VI-VIII, IX-XI, and XII-XIV in 1823 and Cantos XV-XVI in 1824. A first edition of the complete poem is therefore a set spanning two different publishers' imprints across several years, not a single uniform Murray edition.