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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron. London: Thomas Davison for John Murray, 1818-1819.
7 volumes, small 8o (159 x 95 mm). 12 engraved plates (some light spotting and browning). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt and blind roll-tooled borders, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2 compartments, a repeated gilt pattern in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, edges gilt concealing fore-edge paintings of ATHENS; TEMPLE OF MINERVA; BAY OF NAPLES; PONTE LUCANO; TEMPLE OF THESEUS; ST. PETERS FROM THE TIBER and MARINO (joints worn, some hinges split, some light rubbing); modern cloth box. Provenance: Anonymous owner (Christie's New York, 8 December 1989, lot 200).
7 volumes, small 8o (159 x 95 mm). 12 engraved plates (some light spotting and browning). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt and blind roll-tooled borders, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2 compartments, a repeated gilt pattern in the rest, board edges and turn-ins gilt, edges gilt concealing fore-edge paintings of ATHENS; TEMPLE OF MINERVA; BAY OF NAPLES; PONTE LUCANO; TEMPLE OF THESEUS; ST. PETERS FROM THE TIBER and MARINO (joints worn, some hinges split, some light rubbing); modern cloth box. Provenance: Anonymous owner (Christie's New York, 8 December 1989, lot 200).