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Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Description: NEWARK : 1808. Hardback. Engraved frontispiece of Harrow on the Hill. Later Victorian mid-brown calf-leather. No half-title. Gilt ruled spine; raised bands. Gilt lettered spine. All edges marbled. Marbled end-papers. Bright, tight and clean. Minor wear only. No owner name or internal markings. VERY GOOD INDEED. (viii), (i), 174 pages; (actually vii), With errata leaf. With 'said' miss-spelled as 'aaid' on page 115 and stanza 6 correctly numbered on page 29, but 'with top serif' to the letter 'E' in the word POEMS on the title-page. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. Sm.8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord.. POEMS ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED.. S & J Ridge., Newark., 1808.
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Description: pp. viii, errata, 174. Small 8vo. Full calf, spine relaid. 2nd Edition. Issued without a half title. Pirate edition with the watermark H. Salmon 1811. Wise Vol 1, p12. Randolph p13.
Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Description: , [6], x, [1], 174 pages, black and white engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, fly title for "Translations and Imitations" (Wise has title in reverse "Imitations and Translations") and fly title for Fugitive Pieces. Appears to be authorised second edition with some features of first edition [pages viii and ix misnumbered vii and viii in contents (see Wise p10), the E in poems on title page has a serif and the ruled bars are unbroken (Wise p12) suggesting the title page is from the authorised version, also the correction of the stanza numbering p29 fits with this], and some of the second edition i.e.no duplicate of p151/152 as seen in first editions (Wise P12), and signatures matching the second edition (Wise p12). Second Edition , rubbing to spine, edges and corners, gilt rubbed from title label and spine, pages clean, very good condition , full marbled calf, gilt decorative borders to front and rear boards, marbled endpapers, full speckled red edges , quarto, 17 cm x 11 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Description: 8vo, engraved frontispiece and pp. [ii], iv, [9]-234; with three other plates (at pp. 55, 197 and 215), all engraved by Heath after the author (and all very spotted, with offsetting onto the text); contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt (a little rubbed, joints beginning to crack). Lady Jersey's copy. This copy has the bookplate of Sarah Sophia Child, and a stamp on the free endpaper reading 'SS Middleton Park'. Lady Sarah Sophia Fane (1775-1867) married George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, in 1805 and became one of the most notable - and ridiculed - political and social hostesses of her day. She was independently extremely rich, as sole heir to the Child's Bank fortune, and after her marriage she entertained at her house in Berkeley Square, and also at Osterley, near London, and Middleton Park, in Oxfordshire. Her whig salon was an important fixture in London soclety, but she was also active in the family bank, where she kept a desk and discharged her responsibilities as senior partner. Byron was very fond of Lady Jersey, and encountered many writers at her salon, including Mme de Stael; he was always grateful to him for standing by him during the scandal of his separation in 1816; and she even offered him a refuge at Middleton Park during the crisis. She also features in Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon as Lady Augusta, and in Disraeli's novels Sybil and Endymion. This collection of poems by the romantic artist Richard Westall (1765-1836) is apparently his only original publication - of course, he illustrated many works (including this one: all the plates are after his own designs) but published no other verse. He was highly successful as an artist, however, with Byron in particular commenting that his illustrations to Don Juan were 'superb - the brush has beat the poetry'. The last section of the book is a series of odes 'descriptive of the character of the works of some of the greater poets', such as Homer, Hesiod, Ovid, Shakespeare and Milton. This is the first and only edition.
Seller: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, United Kingdom