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The unpublished letters of Lord Byron / edited with a critical essay on the poet's philosophy and character by H.S. Schultess-Young.

Accession number
PML 196132
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Published
London : Richard Bentley and son, 1872.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2015.
Notes
Only the letters to Byron's mother (p. [75]-110), all of them previously published, are authentic (CBEL, III, p. 206).
Suppressed before publication. Wise claimed all but ten copies of the edition were pulped by the publisher (Cf. T.J. Wise, A bibliography of ... Byron (1933) II, pp. 53-56).
Description
viii, 251 pages ; 23 cm
Provenance
W. Vere Coxon's bookplate and ownership inscription on half title, dated 1899 ; later library bookplate of Handsworth Theological College, Birmingham, with "withdrawn" hand-stamped over accession number 17493 on verso of front endleaf.
Binding
Original brick red cloth stamped in black, with gold lettering on upper board and spine, bound by Leighton Son and Hodge (their label on rear paste-down).
Classification
Department