Accession number
PML 145754-55
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Published
London : John Murray, 1830.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"In two volumes."
Engraved frontispiece, "Lord Byron at the age of 19", by William Finden after a painting by G. Sanders.
"London : Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars."--Colophon, v.1.
Vol. 12-13 of a set of Moore's works assembled by former owner James Corry. The volumes comprising the set were originally numbered 1-15, with v. 5 accompanied by an unnumbered supplemental volume, and the set additionally accompanied by a privately printed index to the volumes evidently compiled by Corry (see PML 145743-56). Volume 3, however, containing Moore's "A comic opera" and "Irish melodies", along with volumes 14-15, comprising the "Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald", are missing from the library's collection, having evidently been lacking from the set when the books came into the possession of former owner Gordon N. Ray. Cf. Ray checklist.
Engraved frontispiece, "Lord Byron at the age of 19", by William Finden after a painting by G. Sanders.
"London : Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars."--Colophon, v.1.
Vol. 12-13 of a set of Moore's works assembled by former owner James Corry. The volumes comprising the set were originally numbered 1-15, with v. 5 accompanied by an unnumbered supplemental volume, and the set additionally accompanied by a privately printed index to the volumes evidently compiled by Corry (see PML 145743-56). Volume 3, however, containing Moore's "A comic opera" and "Irish melodies", along with volumes 14-15, comprising the "Life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald", are missing from the library's collection, having evidently been lacking from the set when the books came into the possession of former owner Gordon N. Ray. Cf. Ray checklist.
Description
2 v. (viii, 670; 823 p.) : port. ; 27 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of James Corry; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Purple morocco tooled in gilt and blind by George Mullen (jr.) of Dublin, ca. 1830; bound as v. 1 of a set of uniformly bound first and early editions of Moore's works assembled by former owner James Corry (see PML 145743-56).
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