Accession number
PML 146390-97
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Published
London : John Murray, 1830.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
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.
This copy, along with PML 146398-15, described in: Catalogue of the curious and valuable library of the late John Dillon / sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... on the 7th of June, 1869. London : J. Davy and Sons, 1869, p. 7, no. 85.
Some individual items in this set of extra-illustrated volumes have been cataloged separately.
"London : Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars."--Colophon, v.1.
This copy, along with PML 146398-15, described in: Catalogue of the curious and valuable library of the late John Dillon / sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... on the 7th of June, 1869. London : J. Davy and Sons, 1869, p. 7, no. 85.
Some individual items in this set of extra-illustrated volumes have been cataloged separately.
Description
2 v. (viii, 670; 823 p., [1] leaf of plates) extended to 8 : port. ; 30 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Note in ink on 2nd flyleaf of v. 1 reads: The Letters, Journals, Works of Lord Byron edited by Thomas Moore in eight volumes 4th. The illustrations of this copy were originally collected, about years 1844, 45, 46, by Mr. David Langton, "Clerk" to the "Cloth-workers Company", in the city of London. At his death in 1848 or 9 the work, inlaid, but not bound, was placed for sale by the family in the hands of Mr. Murray of Albemarle Street, who did not find a purchaser. ... In 1857 this copy was sold by auction at a pawnbroker's sale ... and was purchased for me by Mr. Holloway - by whom it was afterwards bound in 26 volumes ... [signed] John Dillon 1858.
Provenance
David Langton; John Dillon; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Dark green morocco tooled in gilt by M.M. Holloway, London; bound as a uniform set with an extra-illustrated copy of The poetical works of Lord Byron in 8 volumes (London : John Murray, 1839), extended to 18 v. (see PML 146398-15).
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