Lord Byron, Signed (48 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. F. Gilbert (illustrator). From the Library of The Late Sir John and Lady Mary Mills. Signed on the front endpaper Mary Hayley Bell (Mary Mills). Not dated. Size 7.25" x 4.75", 457 pages. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles and bands to the spine. Condition fair, leather missing from top inch or so of spine,a little grubby, a little loose, page edges slightly toned else contents clean. Signed by Mary Mills.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Single Card. Fine. Signed In Pencil By Lederer. A Keepsake For The Biennial Meeting Of The Roxburghe And Zamorano Clubs In October 1990. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Rústica. Condition: Bueno. 1Ş ed. 11.2x15.3. 72pp. 4h. Rústica. Tirada de 525 ejemplares. Dedicatoria autógrafa de MŞ Alfaro a Ignacio Romero Raizábal, autor montañés. .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition thus. Pale mauve watered silk boards with printed paper spine label, octavo, unpaginated, illustrated. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Book design by Wolfgang Lederer, printed by Susan Acker and Mary McDermott at the Feathered Serpent Press. Prospectus autographed by Wlfgang Lederer.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Byron's "Corbeau Blanc", The Life and Letters of Lady Melborne. Edited by Jonathan David Gross, Presentation copy to William St Clair. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. Jonathan David Gross has written a 1pp letter accompanying the book, thanking William St Clair for his letter of recommendation in 1991 which got him started on this path. Signed. Please see our other listings for related works. Published by Rice University Press, Houston, Texas, 1997. First edition. A fine paperback with laminated covers. Text clean, bright and soundly bound. xiii + 488pp. Includes a 66 page section of illustrations. Text in English. Weight approximately 1.13kg (unpacked). Dimensions: Approximately 236mm high x 188mm wide x 36mm deep. Extra postage may be payable. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Lord Byron; Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte - translated into Georgian by Innes Merabishvili. Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. Presentation inscription from Innes Merabishvili to William St Clair on the opening page - dated to 23rd August 1996). Please see our other listings for related works. Published by Tbilisi University Press, 1996. Also included are 2 leaflets - "Encounter with Lord Byron" - a 4pp leaflet advertising a joint seminar arranged by The British Embassy and the Georgian Byron Society, 20 April 1996, and a 6pp leaflet "Welcome to The Byron School of Tbilisi". A fine condition booklet with laminated card covers.Clean, bright and soundly bound. Unusual and scarce. Covers + 63pp. Text in English and Georgian. Weight approximately 93g (unpacked). Dimensions: Approximately 193mm high x 140mm wide x 4mm deep. Inscribed by Author(s).

Petit in-12 ( 135x75 mm ) de 222 pages, demi veau blond glacé, dos à 5 nerfs ornés d'un filet perlé doré, titres dorés sur pièces de basane vieux rouge et noire, petits fleurons dorés dans les caissons. Tête dorée.Reliure signée J. Zaugg.Petite collection Guillaume.Illustrations de Gambard et Mittis. Roman.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Thirteen volumes. London: John Murray, 1974-1994. Volumes I, II and XII being reprints; remaining volumes, first impression. With coloured & black-and-white illustrations. Uniformly bound in original scarlet cloth, gilt lettering & decoration. §Front free endpaper of volume XIII (What Comes Uppermost) bears a PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION, dated 1994, from the editor Byron biographer Leslie A. Marchand, "To Roger and [illegible] from Lord Byron and his editor. With love and admiration", in ballpoint pen. No further inscriptions or ownership markings. A few volumes with original pricing stickers to lower inner flap of dustwrapper. A near fine, bright set in very good dustwrappers (two of which are price-clipped). (**PLEASE READ CAREFULLY** - Heavy/overweight item weighing 7.3 kg packed, therefore additional postage will be required for overseas orders - International customers, please ask for a prior shipping quote). Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. BYRON, Lord; WILBERFORCE, William; SHERIDAN, Richard; BECKFORD, William; PERCIVAL, Spencer; CANNING, George; PEEL, Robert et all: Autograph Register of Members of the House of Commons and House of Lords compiled by Robert Watmore, Inspector of Franks at the General Post Office, containing over 900 original signatures of the political elite of Regency Britain. Manuscript register compiled in 1811 and subsequently updated. Oblong small folio ledger, manuscript throughout in ruled columns, with alphabetical index tabs A-Z. Approximately 934 autograph signatures of Members of Parliament and peers, the latter distinguished in red ink, with columns recording name and autograph. Contemporary notes throughout recording deaths, succession of titles and other changes, including the entry for Spencer Perceval annotated "Shot May 11 1812". Original binding stamped with the royal arms. Extensive notes written on the last 3 or 4 pages about key positions, and post holders of the government. Overall very good, with corners rubbed and marks throughout, but a well bound and robust working manuscript book.  A remarkable working document of the British state during the Napoleonic Wars, compiled by Robert Watmore, Inspector of Franks at the General Post Office. Under the parliamentary franking system members of both Houses were entitled to send letters free of postage provided the cover was signed; postal clerks therefore required reliable examples of authentic signatures in order to detect fraudulent use of the privilege. Watmore's manuscript was created as a practical reference tool for that purpose, systematically recording the signatures and residences of members of the House of Commons and House of Lords together with a register of offices entitled to frank correspondence. The volume contains approximately 934 autograph signatures, representing an exceptionally large proportion of the contemporary Parliament and forming an extraordinary collective autograph record of the governing class of Regency Britain. Among those represented are eight British prime ministers: Spencer Perceval, George Canning, Robert Peel, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne and George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen. Other notable figures include William Wilberforce and Henry Brougham of the abolition movement; the foreign secretary Lord Castlereagh; the naval commander and radical politician Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald; the reformer Sir Francis Burdett; the statesman William Huskisson; Prince Frederick, Duke of York; and Sir William Beresford. Literary and cultural figures include Lord Byron, who had taken his seat in the House of Lords in 1809 following his succession to the title; Richard Brinsley Sheridan, author of The School for Scandal and long-serving Whig MP for Stafford; and William Beckford, the author of Vathek and celebrated builder of Fonthill Abbey, who sat in Parliament at various times and was a prominent figure of Regency literary and collecting culture. The manuscript was clearly a living administrative document, with numerous contemporary annotations recording deaths, elevation to the peerage and other changes, demonstrating that it remained in active use within the Post Office for the verification of parliamentary franking privileges. The entry for Spencer Perceval, then serving as Prime Minister, bears the contemporary note "Shot May 11 1812", referring to his assassination in the lobby of the House of Commons, the only British prime minister murdered. A rare survival: a near-comprehensive autograph register of the British Parliament in 1811. Signed by Author(s).

Ein dramatisches Gedicht. (Hrsg. und Nachwort von Helmut Viebrock in Zusammenarbeit mit Eileen Volhard. Über. von Otto Gildemeister). Kl.-4°. OLwdbd. 166 SS., 1 Bl. Sprache: Deutsch, Erste Ausgabe dieser Fassung. - Deutsch-englische Parallelausgabe. - Vorsatz mit zweizeiliger eh. Widmung vom Herausgeber Helmut Viebrock, dat. 17. März 1969.

Condition: Good. 4to. [16 pp.], Decorative Yellow Papered Boards over Blue Cloth, Letterpress On Laid Paper with Deckled Edges, Near Fine with small stain to cover. One of 150 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press for Alfred Sutro for distribution among his friends. "Note: The Thomas Moore letter is genuine; it is in the possession of the writer and is here reproduced in facsimile. The rest of the sketch is an imaginary setting for the letter." Signed dedication inside cover by Alfred Sutro to Carl When, dated Sept. 8, 1932. Facsimile (folded) follows text.

Translated by Jean Delachaume. Preface by G. Clemenceau. (illustrator). Good (front cover reattached and a bit weak, spine leather dried, with some cracking; stain to frontispiece; text very nice). Small 4to., brown quarter-calf leather with marbled boards, stamped in gilt; 446 pages First Edition. Signed presentation by Delachaume on half-title page, to "Mrs. Ralph Sanger.". Virginia Sturges Osborn married Harvard-graduate stockbroker Ralph Sanger in 1904. After his death during World War 1, she married Robert Gordon McKay in 1920. Mrs. Sanger was very involved in the arts and literary communities. Scarce!.

Hoepli, 1883. Cn. 8x12, fregi e titolo oro al piatto, pp. 108, dedica autografa alla prima pagina, peraltro in ottimo stato.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. 10pp. Sheet music. Very good indeed. Signed/copyright by the author.

Cutout. Condition: Gut. Wunderschönes Ensemble! Professionell gerahmt unter Passepartout: Handsigniertes Briefcutout mit Tinte von Lord Byron unter wunderschöner alter Portraitradierung /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee /// George Gordon Noel, 6. Baron Byron (geborener George Gordon Byron; * 22. Januar 1788 in London, England; ? 19. April 1824 in Messolongi, Griechenland), bekannt als Lord Byron, war ein britischer Dichter. Er gilt als einer der wesentlichen Vertreter der englischen Romantik und war bekannt als Dandy. Er war der Vater der Mathematikerin Ada Lovelace, wahrscheinlich auch von Elizabeth Medora Leigh, und ist als Teilnehmer am Freiheitskampf der Griechen bekannt. Leben Eigenhändiger Brief Byrons an John Hanson (1808; Fondazione BEIC) George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, Gemälde von Richard Westall (1813; heute in der National Portrait Gallery, London[1]) George Gordon Byron war ein Enkel von John Byron, einem Südseeforscher und britischen Admiral. Sein Vater, John ?Mad Jack? Byron, ein Gardehauptmann in der britischen Armee, starb 1791. Byron verlebte seine frühe Kindheit im schottischen Aberdeen, aufgezogen von seiner Mutter Catherine Gordon of Gight, einer schottischen Adligen. Stark beeinflusst wurde er vom calvinistischen Glauben seines Kindermädchens May Grey. Der gutaussehende, dem englischen Hochadel angehörende und vermögende Byron hatte einen Klumpfuß und litt zeitlebens unter seiner oft schmerzhaften Behinderung, die er als entwürdigende Missbildung empfand und die ihn gesellschaftlich einschränkte, da er zum Beispiel nicht tanzen konnte. Beim Tod seines Großonkels William erbte Byron 1798 im Alter von zehn Jahren dessen englischen Adelstitel Baron Byron, of Rochdale in the County Palatine of Lancaster, sowie das weitgehend heruntergewirtschaftete Anwesen Newstead Abbey. Ab 1801 besuchte Byron die angesehene Harrow School. Im Jahr 1805 trat er ins Trinity College in Cambridge ein. Dort verliebte Byron sich in den zwei Jahre jüngeren Chorsänger John Edleston. Als dieser Cambridge 1807 verließ und nach London zog, schrieb Byron in einem Brief vom 5. Juli 1807: ?[?] er war seit Oktober 1805 mein beinahe ständiger Gefährte, als ich ins Trinity College eintrat. [?] Ich liebe ihn bestimmt mehr als irgendein anderes menschliches Wesen.?[2] Sein Leben lang hatte Byron sowohl heterosexuelle als auch homosexuelle Beziehungen. Er musste dabei in England sehr vorsichtig sein, da dort auf homosexuellen Geschlechtsverkehr die Todesstrafe stand. Daher benutzte Byron z. B. in seinen Briefwechseln mit Freunden Code-Wörter.[3] Byron durfte 1808 - nach Erreichen der Volljährigkeit - den mit dem Adelstitel verbundenen Sitz im House of Lords einnehmen. Er unternahm 1809 eine große Reise in den Mittelmeerraum: Über Lissabon fuhr er nach Spanien und besuchte auch Malta, Albanien, Griechenland und die Küste Kleinasiens. Byron hatte zuvor angedeutet, dass ein Grund für die Reise auch in der Tatsache liege, dass der ?Osten?, also der Mittelmeerraum, toleranter mit homosexuellen Beziehungen umgehe.[4] Am 4. Oktober 1810 berichtete er in einem Brief aus Patras in Griechenland, dass er eine große Anzahl befriedigender, homosexueller Erlebnisse gehabt habe.[5] Bei seiner Rückkehr nach England im Juli 1811 wurde Byron von seinen Freunden vor der zunehmenden Homosexuellenfeindlichkeit in der Gesellschaft gewarnt.[6] Im Oktober erfuhr er vom frühen Tod John Edlestons, seiner großen Liebe aus der Zeit im Trinity College. Das war ein ?Schock? für ihn, und er durchlebte eine längere Phase eines apathieähnlichen Zustands. In den folgenden sechs Monaten schrieb er eine Reihe von Elegien. Darin verbarg er die Identität Edlestons hinter dem Namen ?Thyrza? Sechs dieser Elegien erschienen als Anhang in der ersten und zweiten Auflage des Versepos Childe Harold?s Pilgrimage.[7] Im Jahr 1812 wurde Byron durch die Publikation der ersten beiden Canti von Childe Harold?s Pilgrimage schlagartig bekannt. Er wurde in den folgenden Jahren zum Liebling der Londoner Gesellschaft sowie zum Salonlöwen mit zahlreichen Affären.[8] Oft zitiert wurden seine Worte ?I woke up one morning and found myself famous? (?Ich erwachte eines Morgens und fand mich berühmt wieder?).[9][10] Im selben Jahr löste er durch sein offenes Verhältnis mit der verheirateten Lady Caroline Lamb einen gesellschaftlichen Skandal aus, der fortan seinen Ruf als ?Mann von zweifelhafter Moral? prägte. Lady Caroline beschrieb den Dichter zu dieser Zeit als ?mad, bad and dangerous to know? (?verrückt, schlecht und gefährlich, ihn zu kennen?). Nach drei Monaten trennte sich Byron von ihr. Vermutlich fürchtete er sich davor, zu sehr dominiert zu werden. Lady Caroline verfolgte ihn öffentlich wie privat. Sie blieb besessen von der Idee, sich an Byron zu rächen.[11] Sie schlich sich in Byrons Haus ein und hinterließ in einem Buch die Worte ?Remember me!? (?Gedenke meiner!?) als Zitat aus Shakespeares Hamlet, das dort vom rachesuchenden Geist gesprochen wird. Als Antwort schrieb Byron ein wütendes, verfluchendes Gedicht mit dem Titel ?Remember Thee!? (?Ich gedenke Deiner!?), das aber erst nach seinem Tod veröffentlicht wurde.[12] Byrons Halbschwester Augusta, Kohlezeichnung von Georg Hayter Anne Isabella Milbanke, anonyme Zeichnung (um 1813) Im Jahr 1813 traf Byron in London seine Halbschwester Augusta Leigh wieder, die Tochter seines Vaters aus dessen erster Ehe. Die Briefe, die Byron zu dieser Zeit an seine Vertraute Lady Melbourne schrieb, lassen auf ein inzestuöses Verhältnis zwischen Leigh und ihrem Halbbruder schließen. Weil Augusta Leigh seit 1811 von ihrem Ehemann George Leigh getrennt lebte, war Byron mutmaßlich der Vater ihrer im April 1814 geborenen Tochter Elizabeth Medora. ?Diese perverse Leidenschaft war meine tiefste?, schrieb Byron aus seinem späteren Exil an Lady Melbourne. Er verfasste mehrere Liebesgedichte für seine Halbschwester: Stanzas for Augusta und Epistle for Augusta. In seinen Werken findet sich wiederholt das Motiv der Geschwisterliebe: In Ka.

En Feuilles. Condition: Bon. Touchagues (illustrator). Édition limitée. Paris, M-P. Trémois, sd [1930]. 34 x 26,5 cm, in-folio, 41 pp. - 8 eaux-fortes en couleurs hors texte et sous marie-louise, 9 illustrations dans le texte coloriées au pochoir, dont celle de la page de titre, en feuilles sous couverture de tissu floqué rouille rempliée, imprimée et illustrée en or. L'un des 22 exemplaires sur Hollande Van Gelder, deuxième papier après 9 sur Japon et avant 169 sur vélin, comportant une SUITE des 8 eaux-fortes signées, en couleurs, sur Japon (n° 13). Notre exemplaire est en outre enrichi 5 planches de croquis rehaussés de couleur non signalées au colophon, ainsi que d'une très belle AQUARELLE ORIGINALE signée (celle préparant l'eau-forte du Chant premier). Sans la chemise ni l'étui. Petites déchirures à la fragile couverture avec des pertes en coiffes, bel exemplaire pour le reste. (MONOD, 2116). Signé par l'illustrateur.

Relié sous emboîtage. In-12 (8 x 13,5 cm), ravissante reliure demi-maroquin à coins signée, sous emboîtage cartonné, dos lisse orné de filets et d'un décor floral dorés, tête dorée, couverture conservée, 222 pages, illustré de vignettes en noir et blanc ; quelques légères rousseurs éparses en début et fin de volume, par ailleurs très bel exemplaire à la reliure sans défaut. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande. Petit collection Guillaume.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo (189 x 113 mm). 3pp. publisher's advertisements at end dated 30 March 1810. Original half-title cropped and tipped in at end. Contemporary turquoise morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Bedford. Provenance: Bertrand Smith's (their partially removed ticket on front flyleaf). Third edition. Randolph, pp. 16-17.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 1st. Illustrated with 13 original etchings by Frank Sepp. One of 275 numbered copies, signed by Frank. Bound in quarter parchment a nd paper boards. Spine rubbed and worn, slight wear to extremities, otherwise very good. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5", signed binding (by "R.W. Smith"), half leather with gilt-lettered black leather spine labels; marbled boards, 439pp, covers worn and darkened, spine dull with chipping to one of the spine labels, outer hinges starting, inner hinges tender, pp toned around the edges, some finger soiling; with pencil note stating that this was "from the library of John Kendrick Bangs, Nov. 27- 1905". FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Attractively bound in smooth polished morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles. Just the slightest amount of wear, otherwise a lovely copy. One of 220 numbered copies with a brief and rare inscription by the publisher as photographed in 1940. The original paper slipcase in very good condition or better is present. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Octavo, 408 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine brown with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Mild general shelf wear. Top edge of textblock gilt. Tanning to endpapers. Mild to moderate foxing throughout textblock. Signed flat by Austen on half title page. Shelved in Case 0. 1399985. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition 1st Issue. 1st edition 1st issue with the blank page 76. Note lacks the final ads and the half title, else complete, bound in 20th century 1/4 Calf and marbled boards with vellum tips by Alan Grace of Surrey UK. This is Bryron's Faustian master narrative poem. London: John Murray, 1817., 1817. 8vo. pp. 80. First Edition, First( Issue with blank p. 76. Randolph pp. 64-67. By the Binder.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. pp. x, 66. 4to. Original full vellum, slightly darkened. Bevelded edges, rear hinge beginning to split. Top edge gilt. No 55 of a limited edition of 100 signed by the printer. This reprint is taked from the Rev. J. T Becher's copy by Harry Buxton Forman. Wise Vol 1, p14. Randolph p114. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Very good copy in a 20th century 1/2 calf and marlbed boards and vellum tips by Alan Grace of Surrey UK, a fine binder. 72pps with ads however, lacks the half title. else very good. a fairly crisp copy of this famous play full title being The Bride of Abydos A Turkish Tale. rare book, this is the 1st issue of this book. By the Binder.

First edition. 128pp. With a half-title. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in modern gilt-tooled blue calf, contrasting red and brown morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G., marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed, joints creased. Very occasional light spotting. W. A. Foyle's copy, with his morocco bookplate to FEP. The first edition, published anonymously, of Byron's tragic narrative poem Lara, printed together with the first release of Samuel Rogers' (1763-1855) Jacqueline, a similar long narrative poem written in iambic tetrameter. Lara, intended as a sequel to Byron's previous narrative epic, The Corsair (1814), follows the journey of the mysterious Count Lara as he returns to his native country and leads a doomed serf rebellion against its rulers. In contrast, Rogers' Jacqueline tells the tale of a runaway bride, who is blessed with a forgiving father. Prior to their joint publication, Byron's admiration for Rogers had been well documented; he had acclaimed his fellow poet as 'melodious Rogers' in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), and to Rogers he had dedicated his first Oriental romance, The Giaour (1813). William Alfred Westropp Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, co-founder of the eponymous bookshop on Charing Cross Road. Following his purchase of the former medieval monastery of Beeleigh Abbey in 1943, Foyle built an extensive personal library. In July 2000, following the death of his daughter and successor Christina, the library was dispersed at Christie's over three days, at the time being the most valuable English private library ever to be offered in Britain or on the Continent. Those books that remained with the family were sold by Dominic Winter Auctioneers in 2023 following the death of Foyle's grandson Christopher. Jackson p.381. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: g+ to vg. First edition. Quarto (9 x 6"). XXI, [1], 261, [1]pp. Uncut. Later 19th-century gilt-lined 3/4 morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling to spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Binding signed by Zaehnsdorf* on inside of front free endpaper. Set in Venice in 1355, "Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice" is a blank verse tragedy in five acts by Lord Byron, who was inspired to take on this subject when, on examining the portraits of the Doges in the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, he discovered that the portrait of Faliero had been blacked out. The play tells the story of recently elected Doge of Venice Marino Faliero, who offends one of the chief officers of state, Michel Steno. Steno retaliates by writing on the Doge's throne an indecent libel on Faliero's wife. For this he is tried by the Council of Forty and convicted, but is only sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Faliero is so outraged by this, as he believes, inadequate punishment that he secretly joins in the conspiracy of a group of malcontents to overthrow the constitution of Venice, thinking thereby to gain revenge on his enemies. The plot is discovered and Faliero is executed. The main historical source Lord Byron drew on was Marino Sanuto's "Vite dei Doge" (published posthumously in 1733). He completed the play in July 1820, by which time he was living in Ravenna, and published it in April 1821, along with his "The Prophecy of Dante." Written at Ravenna during the month of June 1819, "The Prophecy of Dante" was intended for the Italians as a vision of "liberty and the resurrection of Italy" (see Medwin, "Conversations," (1824), page 241). Corners and head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Foxing to very first and very last leaves. Minor and sporadic foxing throughout. Binding in overall good+, interior in good+ to very good condition. * A native of Budapest, Joseph Zaehnsdorf (1816-1886) was a celebrated Austria-Hungarian bookbinder who began his bookbinding career at the age of just 15 years old, as an apprentice. He founded his own binding firm in London when he was in his mid-twenties. His work won awards and critical acclaim at many exhibitions throughout Europe. A version of the Zaehnsdorf company is still in operation today, having merged with another prestigious London bookbinding company, Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The combined company was bought by Shepherds, another bookbinding company, in 1998 and still operates today.

Fore-Edge painting of boxing scene. Black and white plates inside (illustrator). Lansdowne Poets. Elegantly bound edition of Byron's poetry, illustrated with several full page black and white plates depicting scenes from the works. Far more interesting, however, is the unusual fore-edge painting depicting two shirtless boxers sparring in a ring surrounded by spectators. A fore-edge painting is unique bit of artistry whereby the fore edge of a book's textblock is painted with a scene such that it is only visible when the pages are fanned slightly. Most fore-edge paintings we have seen feature landscapes, city skylines, etc. This painting is signed "JL" at lower left corner of the image. Dark brown calf over bevelled boards with embossed rules and corner ornaments to both boards, Spine titled in gilt, ruled across four raised bands. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, floral pattern stamped in gilt on turn ins. Minor rubs to extremities and along joints, tiny bookseller tag to top inner margin of rear pastedown. Near fine overall. Full leather. Duodecimo. viii, 638 pages.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). The complete thirteen volume edition de luxe of the poetry, letters and journals of Lord Byron. A limited edition work, initialled by the publisher, and illustrated throughout. The scarce edition de luxe of this work, complete in thirteen volumes, and uniformly bound in the publisher's original quarter morocco.250 copies of this set were produced, with this being number 19, initialled by the publisher, John Murray.Six volumes of this work are devoted to Byron's poetry, and seven to his letters and journals.A 'new, revised and enlarged edition', edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge.Present here are:Poetry: vol I, with fifteen plates; vol II, with eleven plates; vol III, with ten plates; vol IV, with ten plates; vol V, with eight plates; vol VI, with eight plates. Collated, complete.Letters and Journals: vol I, with seventeen plates; vol II, with ten plates; vol III, with eight plates; vol IV, with ten plates; vol V, with nine plates; vol VI with eleven plates; vol VII, with seven plates. Collated, complete.With the bookplate of Laurence W. Hodson, an industrialist and collector, to each front pastedown. In the publisher's original quarter morocco bindings, with cloth covered boards. Externally excellent, with just a touch of fading to back strips, as is common with deep shades of morocco. Front hinge of poetry volume VI strained but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Manfred: A Tragedy: by Lord Byron; decorated by Frederick Carter; and an introduction by the artist; issued for the subscribers of the Fanfrolico Press, Five Bloomsbury Square, London, MDCMXXIX. From the Colophon here ends Manfred by Lord Byron, decorated by Frederick Carter, with an introduction by the artist, printed in Poliphilus Roman at the Botolph Printing Works and published by the Fanfrolico Press in London, typography and production arranged by Jack Lindsay and P. R. Stephensen. This edition is limited to 30 copies of which this is No. 8, signed by Frederick Carter. A history of the press The Fanfrolico Press; Satyrs, Fauns & Fine Books, by John Arnold was published by the Private Libraries Association in 2009. Here is some commentary from that history relating to this book full vellum with bevelled boards, decoration within a border of rules in gold on the front board, author and title in gold on the spine, border of rules in gold on the back. The four full-page drawings are printed in purple on separately-inserted leaves. Frederick Carter, 1885 1967, was fascinated by the astrological and magical and became a mystic symbolist artist and associated with Aleister Crowley. He worked on illustrations for D.H. Lawrence's book, 'Apocalypse', that had begun its life as an introduction to Carter's own book, 'Dragon of Revelations', published 1932, and which Carter had sent to Lawrence in New Mexico. This book is in near-fine condition. It is slightly spayed when laid flat as is often the case when bound in full vellum. Signed by Illustrator(s).