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183985851Stuttgart: Hoffmannische Buchh. 1839. Gebunden. Hoffmannische Buchh. unknown
182919903London: London: John Murray 1829 1829. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. edition not stated six volumes complete in publisher's original boards cloth spines plain paper-covered panels paper labels on spines bindings generally quite worn and chipped text blocks fairly shaky some edge browning and other foxing. Useful old reading copies or rebinders perhaps. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. London: John Murray, 1829 Hardcover
1882mon0000356735W. Kent & Co. 1882T. hardcover. Very Good. 1st thus POEMS OF LORD BYRON Carefully Selected In Two Volume Set. Miniature Books 12mo . There is gilt on the spine and around the block of the books. No edition stated. The boards are in generally excellent condition and the boards are in bright blue cloth. There is some foxing on the prelim pages of volume one. Volume No 1. Publication of 318 pages. Volume No2. Publication of 316 pages. A charming edition of Byron in generally very good condition W. Kent & Co. hardcover
188114635Macmillan 1881. 8vo. First Edition Large Paper on laid paper engraved portrait of Byron by Stodart mounted on title endpapers mildly browned; original ivory buckram backstrip with paper label printed in red uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED covers heavily age-stained backstrip in particular faded to dark brown else a very good bright crisp clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 705 COPIES. Arnold contributes an extended Preface. Macmillan, hardcover
1854173296John Murray January 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. Dark green cloth lined boards and spines with gilt titles; small tears to spine tops of vols 1 & 4; some pulling from front cover from spine; especially volume 4; otherwise very clean and unmarked John Murray hardcover
183734931London: Black and Armstrong 1837. A very early printing of Byron’s works and the first to be complete in one volume. This copy with the fine bookplate of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. With an engraved portrait frontispiece by Finden a beautiful engraved half-title with vignette engraved publisher’s dedication and 4 pages of handwriting facsimiles. Large thick 8vo in a very handsome contemporary binding of full black straight-grain morocco the spine with raised bands and compartments triple gilt-ruled in gilt and gilt lettered in one compartment and dated at the foot with triple-gilt ruled fillet borders on both covers fine gilt rolled turn-ins and all edges gilt. viii 4 827 1 ads. A very handsome copy beautifully preserved the morocco and gilt both rich and bright a copy with very little evidence of age or use. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN ONE VOLUME WITH ILLUSTRATION. A very handsome production of Byron’s great Romantic poetry and the first edition of his works in one volume. John Murray and Armstrong had a particular interest in Byron with Murray largely responsible for publishing and promoting the author as this fine one volume collection printed by both attests. If not for Murray’s efforts it may have taken Byron works years if ever to reach the same height of popularity and fame.<br> Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an English Whig politician. He was born in London the eldest son of Thomas Sheridan colonial treasurer in the Cape of Good Hope and the novelist Caroline Henrietta Callander of Craig forth and the grandson of his namesake the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.<br> He served as High Sheriff of Dorset in 1838 was Member of Parliament MP for Shaftesbury from 1845 to 1852 and for Dorchester from 1852 until he retired in 1868 and also Deputy Lieutenant for Dorset. He was a Liberal in favour of extending the right to vote. Black and Armstrong hardcover
18169396John Murray 1816. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper; front and rear inside wrappers very lightly spotted corners of a few leaves mildly dog-eared; original publisher's brown paper wrappers sewed as issued backstrip blank largely worn away uncut a very good crisp clean copy now housed in a custom-made green cloth solander case paper label lettered and ruled in black on upper board. Complete with half-titles to each poem and the 2pp of publisher's advertisements at end the latter not recorded by Randolph. SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. Randolph p. 55; Wise I p.106. John Murray, hardcover