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G.G.N., Lord Byron

Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari, Cain


Published by John Murray London 1821

Edition 1st

Condition Worn

Half-title. Worcester Public Library label to upper pastedown. Quarter calf crumbly, marbled boards rubbed. Upper board detached, lower held by thread. But with clean pages worth rebinding.

Price £20.00


439pp


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WB1894

G.G.N., Lord Byron

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, A Romaunt: and Other Poems


Published by John Murray London 1812

Edition 4th

Condition Worn

Facsimile manuscript of Lord’s Prayer in Romaic bound in as called for but foxed. No half-title. Worcester Public Library label to upper pastedown. Soiling to some pages. Quarter-calf crumbly, marbled boards rubbed, upper board detached: needs repair or rebind.

Price £15.00


298pp


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WB1895

G.G.N., Lord Byron

Werner, A Tragedy


Published by John Murray London 1823

Edition 1st, 2nd issue

Condition Worn

Half-title. 7pp adverts. A complete but very poor copy, some staining throughout, preliminaries badly wormed, binding threads broken, the whole held in old wrappers and later cellophane, sellotape staining, etc.

Price £12.00


188pp


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WB1897

G.G.N., Lord Byron

Hebrew Melodies


Published by John Murray London 1815

Edition 1st

Condition Good

Correct first issue with half-title, prefatory note and adverts. Some occasional spotting and (particularly at fore-edge) soiling. Disbound, held by remains of backstrip.

Price £40.00


53pp


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WB1898

G.G.N., Lord Byron

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Third


Published by John Murray London 1816

Edition 1st edition 1st issue

Condition Good

Page 73 misnumbered 76. Complete but somewhat tired copy with some soiling to text. Disbound, held by remains of backstrip, half-title loosening.

Price £20.00


80pp


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WB1899

G.G.N., Lord Byron

The Siege of Corinth. Parisina.


Published by John Murray London 1816

Edition 1st edition 1st issue

Condition Good

Half-title. Somewhat tired copy with some soiling. Disbound, held by remains of backstrip.

Price £18.00


92pp


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WB1900

G.G.N., Lord Byron

The Prisoner of Chillon & Other Poems


Published by John Murray London 1816

Edition 1st edition 1st issue

Condition Good

Half-title. 1p adverts. Somewhat tired copy, some soiling throughout, closed tear to some page edges. Disbound, held by remains of backstrip.

Price £15.00


60pp


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WB1901

G.G.N., Lord Byron

The Works


Published by John Murray London 1823/4/5

Condition Good

A uniform but apparently nonce set of 11 small octavo volumes variously specified: 1-5 ‘in 5 volumes’ 1823;6-8 ‘in 8 volumes’ 1825; 3 additional volumes dated 1824, 9 wrongly numbered as 8, 10 as 7, 11 correct. Foxed portrait frontispiece Volume 1. Another frontispiece Volume 6. Volume 5 lacks P2 and P3. In Volume 7 sig K repeats. Volume 9 lacks X2-8. Separately paginated extract from Edinburgh review of Hours of Idleness inserted in Volume 9. Half calf bindings sound but many labels missing or defective. Library accession number gilt-stamped at foot of all spines.

Price £75.00


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WB1903

 

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