Accession number
PML 15799
Creator
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.
Published
[Newark : Printed by S. and J. Ridge, 1806]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes
Byron's name appears at the end of poems on p. 46 and 48.
Imprint from colophon.
Date of publication from p. 66: "November 16, 1806" (printed after final poem).
Byron's first book, privately printed and suppressed soon after publication by the author. All 38 poems except "To Mary," "To Caroline," and final six stanzas of "To Miss E.P." appeared in Poems on Various Occasions (1807); 19 of 38 poems appeared in Hours of Idleness (1807).
Byron's coat-of-arms drawn in ink and wash on t.p. (by E. Pigot?).
Signatures: A-L², M1, N-Q², chi1, R², S1 (as described in Wise).
Watermark: 1805 C. Wilmott.
See acc. file for early correspondence between Belle Greene, T.J. Wise, and W. Douglas Seymour regarding T.J. Wise, Buxton Forman, and other surviving copies of this work.
Library's copy purchased with autograph letters from Byron to John Ridge (now MA 62).
This copy is reproduced in its entirety in Byron's Miscellaneous poems: a facsimile of the manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library, ed. by Levine, McGann, et al. (1988).
Imprint from colophon.
Date of publication from p. 66: "November 16, 1806" (printed after final poem).
Byron's first book, privately printed and suppressed soon after publication by the author. All 38 poems except "To Mary," "To Caroline," and final six stanzas of "To Miss E.P." appeared in Poems on Various Occasions (1807); 19 of 38 poems appeared in Hours of Idleness (1807).
Byron's coat-of-arms drawn in ink and wash on t.p. (by E. Pigot?).
Signatures: A-L², M1, N-Q², chi1, R², S1 (as described in Wise).
Watermark: 1805 C. Wilmott.
See acc. file for early correspondence between Belle Greene, T.J. Wise, and W. Douglas Seymour regarding T.J. Wise, Buxton Forman, and other surviving copies of this work.
Library's copy purchased with autograph letters from Byron to John Ridge (now MA 62).
This copy is reproduced in its entirety in Byron's Miscellaneous poems: a facsimile of the manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library, ed. by Levine, McGann, et al. (1988).
Description
[4], 66 p. ; 23 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Extensively annotated and corrected throughout by Byron and others; with printer's name inscribed at top of dedication page, and inscription in Byron's hand below: Eliz Bridget Pigot (her name has been crossed out in ink), Nov. 8th, 1806, H.P.E.D.S.G.G.B. [Haec poemata ex dono sunt G.G. Byron] Southwell."
Provenance
Formerly inscribed by Byron to Elizabeth Pigot; signed "Sam Ridge"; sold at Sotheby's (London) 1 June 1907; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Stab sewn, in modern wrappers; housed in a red morocco slipcase.
Classification
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