[FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS.] BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Works. London: John Murray, 1830. 4 volumes. -- Don Juan. London: J.F. Dove, 1828, 29. 2 volumes. Together six volumes, 8vo. Engraved frontispieces and plates. (Some foxing and offsetting.) Uniformly bound in red straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt, EACH WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING DEPICTING A SCENE FROM BYRON, turn-ins gilt; morocco drop box (cover detached). A FINE SET, Weber wrote: "Lord Byron seems to have been the last poet to attract an audience large enough to insure the fore-edge decoration of a large number of his books" (Weber, 1001 Fore-Edge Paintings, p.126). (6)

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[FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS.] BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Works. London: John Murray, 1830. 4 volumes. -- Don Juan. London: J.F. Dove, 1828, 29. 2 volumes. Together six volumes, 8vo. Engraved frontispieces and plates. (Some foxing and offsetting.) Uniformly bound in red straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt, EACH WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING DEPICTING A SCENE FROM BYRON, turn-ins gilt; morocco drop box (cover detached). A FINE SET, Weber wrote: "Lord Byron seems to have been the last poet to attract an audience large enough to insure the fore-edge decoration of a large number of his books" (Weber, 1001 Fore-Edge Paintings, p.126). (6)