BIB_ID
81687
Accession number
MA 52
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Display Date
England, 1788-1855
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1923.
Description
3 volumes (78 autograph items, 260 graphics) : portraits ; 43.5 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Volume I, MA 52, comprises 78 autograph items (MA 52.1-78). Volume I, MA 52, also includes 112 graphic items (MA 52.227- MA 52.238), among them portraits of Lady Byron, Lord Byron, Countess Guiccioli, Caroline Lamb, Countess of Lovelace, John Murray, Colonel Thomas Wildman and Harriette Wilson. Volume II (MA 52A) includes 75 graphic items (MA 52.79-MA 52.153), among them portraits of John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Byron, Thomas Campbell, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, John Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Charles Dallas, William Gifford, William Godwin, Anna Maria Hall, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron Holland, Leigh Hunt, Francis Jeffrey, Charles Lamb, Matthew Lewis, Sir James Mackintosh, Thomas Moore, John Murray, Caroline Norton, James Perry, Samuel Rogers, Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Southey, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Volume III (MA 52B) includes 73 graphic items (MA 52.154-MA 52.226), among them portraits of Lady Charlotte Bacon, Clara Allegra Byron, Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, Rev. George Burder, Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle, Margarita Cogni, George IV, Teresa Guiccioli, Caroline Lamb, Madame de Staël, Sarah Sophia Villiers, Countess of Jersey, Josiah Wedgwood, and William Wordsworth.
Volume I, MA 52, comprises 78 autograph items (MA 52.1-78). Volume I, MA 52, also includes 112 graphic items (MA 52.227- MA 52.238), among them portraits of Lady Byron, Lord Byron, Countess Guiccioli, Caroline Lamb, Countess of Lovelace, John Murray, Colonel Thomas Wildman and Harriette Wilson. Volume II (MA 52A) includes 75 graphic items (MA 52.79-MA 52.153), among them portraits of John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Byron, Thomas Campbell, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, John Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Charles Dallas, William Gifford, William Godwin, Anna Maria Hall, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron Holland, Leigh Hunt, Francis Jeffrey, Charles Lamb, Matthew Lewis, Sir James Mackintosh, Thomas Moore, John Murray, Caroline Norton, James Perry, Samuel Rogers, Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Southey, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Volume III (MA 52B) includes 73 graphic items (MA 52.154-MA 52.226), among them portraits of Lady Charlotte Bacon, Clara Allegra Byron, Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, Rev. George Burder, Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle, Margarita Cogni, George IV, Teresa Guiccioli, Caroline Lamb, Madame de Staël, Sarah Sophia Villiers, Countess of Jersey, Josiah Wedgwood, and William Wordsworth.
Summary
A collection of autograph letters from Lord Byron, Lady Byron, their friends and family. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 52.1-78). With engraved portraits of Byron and Lady Byron.
Housed in
Blue drop-spine box (43.5 cm)
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