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The works of Lord Byron : in verse and prose, including his letters, journals, etc. ; with a sketch of his life.

Accession number
PML 51430.1
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Published
New-York : George Dearborn, Publisher. : Sold by Collins & Hannay ... Hilliard, Gray & Co., Boston; Desilver, Jr. & Thomas, Philadelphia; and Cushing and Sons, Baltimore, 1835.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows, 1961.
Notes
"Emphatically the first complete edition of the Poetical and prose works of Lord Byron"--P. [v].
"Entered ... December 21, 1832, by George Dearborn"--T.p. verso.
"New-York: Stereotype of A. Bell & Brother. Henry Ludwig, Printer ..."--T.p. verso.
Author's portrait engraved in New York by A.L. Dick after a painting by the American artist W.E. West; Lady Byron's portrait by Dick after W.J. Newton.
Edited and with a memoir by Fitz-Greene Halleck.
Laid in the library's copy are notes by Thoreau on a slip of blue notepaper, and a pressed maple leaf (1st pagination: p. 210 and 216).
Plates include engraved t.p. and facsimiles of Byron's handwriting.
Description
xxviii, 319, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates; 627, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., ports., facsims. ; 26 cm
Provenance
Formerly owned by Henry David Thoreau (signature); William Harris Arnold (bookpklate); Edwin B. Hill; John L. Cooley.
Binding
Tan calf; in a modern 1/2 brown morocco case.
Classification
Department