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The poetical works of Lord Byron.

Accession number
PML 146398-15
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Published
London : John Murray, 1839.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrations are from Finden's illustrations of the life and works of Lord Byron, first published in parts, with notes and excerpts from the works, 1832-1834.
Printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square.
"Most extensively illustrated with nearly five thousand portraits, plates, drawings and autographs, comprising autographs of Sir John Byron, Lord Byron's mother, Sir Robert Peel, Mrs. Leigh, Lady Byron, Constance Smith, Tom Moore, Mrs. Shelley, J. G. Lockhart, S. T. Coleridge, Boniverd the prisoner of Chillon; original drawings of Annesley, and several others of unpublished illustrations ..."--Catalogue of the curious and valuable library of the late John Dillon (see below).
This copy, along with PML 146390-97, 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.
Description
8 v. extended to 18 : ill. ; 30 cm
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 Thomas Moore's Letters and journals of Lord Byron (London : John Murray, 1830), 2 v. extended to 8 (see PML 146390-97).
Classification
Department