BIB_ID
364497
Accession number
MA 62.25
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
1808 Feb. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
High reserve.
John Ridge, a printer based in Newark (near Newstead Abbey), was Byron's original printer.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Possibly from the Kaye Dowland Byron collection.
With a separate address panel (7.3 x 12.5 cm) addressed to "Mr. Ridge / Bookseller / Newark / Notts."
Written from "Dorant's, A[lbemarle] Street."
John Ridge, a printer based in Newark (near Newstead Abbey), was Byron's original printer.
Part of a large collection of autograph letters from Byron to various recipients; see main record for MA 62 for more information.
Possibly from the Kaye Dowland Byron collection.
With a separate address panel (7.3 x 12.5 cm) addressed to "Mr. Ridge / Bookseller / Newark / Notts."
Written from "Dorant's, A[lbemarle] Street."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Concerning poems to be included in the edition of his Hours of Idleness that Ridge is printing; reiterating that he wants "no preface or advertisement nothing but the Dedication"; saying that he does not like the engravings and only wants the "view of Harrow" used.
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