Accession number
PML 77001-17
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Published
London : John Murray ..., 1832-33.
Notes
Verso of t.p.: London: Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode ...
"In fourteen volumes." Actually, in 17 vols. "When this edition was first announced ... printer calculated that the whole might be comprised in fourteen volumes ... additions [ notes, ill. and index] will extend the Work to seventeen volumes"--v. 13, p. vi. In. v. 13-16 no. of vols. not indicated on t.p.
Frontispieces and added t.p. in each vol.; engraved by Edward and William Finden after J.M.W. Turner, J.D. Harding, C. Stanfield and others.
Vol. 3-17 are evidence of the first commercial printing of gold on the cloth itself (see Sadleir).
Includes index.
"In fourteen volumes." Actually, in 17 vols. "When this edition was first announced ... printer calculated that the whole might be comprised in fourteen volumes ... additions [ notes, ill. and index] will extend the Work to seventeen volumes"--v. 13, p. vi. In. v. 13-16 no. of vols. not indicated on t.p.
Frontispieces and added t.p. in each vol.; engraved by Edward and William Finden after J.M.W. Turner, J.D. Harding, C. Stanfield and others.
Vol. 3-17 are evidence of the first commercial printing of gold on the cloth itself (see Sadleir).
Includes index.
Description
17 v. : ill. (engravings), facsims., port. ; 17 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription, vol. 1: Charles Roden Filgate, Dec. 15, 1875, Lissrenney.
Provenance
Inscribed by Charles Roden Filgate.
Binding
Green publisher's cloth; in PML boxes.
Classification
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Department