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Price: US$52.92 + shipping
Description: Near fine copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Spines slightly worn. Remain particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 2 volumes : frontispiece (volumes 1: portrait), folded facsimiles ; 17 cm. Subjects; Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824; works. Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824; history. English history. English writers; history. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$67.60 + shipping
Description: Near fine copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Spines slightly worn. Remain particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 2 volumes : frontispiece (volumes 1: portrait), folded facsimiles ; 17 cm. Subjects; Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824; works. Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824; history. English history. English writers; history. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Commentary by William Brockedon, a 19th century painter, writer, and inventor, on the work of English engraver William Finden. 3-volume set, bound in half morocco with marbled boards, covers show minor wear and rubbing, edgewear and bumped corners, joints starting. Marbled endpapers. Pages are lightly tanned and mostly clean with a few minor spots and tidemarks.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION 3 vols. 8vo. (22 x 15.5 cm.) Full contemporary blind-stamped maroon morocco, spines with decorative gilt title, yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. 123 engraved steel plates, 3 engraved title vignettes. Ex libris George Wm Mercer Henderson/ Busby Lodge and the Earl of Buckinghamshire with their bookplates to each volume. Volume 3 rebacked. Finden's attractive engraved illustrations to the works of Byron, taken after drawings and paintings by Turner, Stanfield, Weston etc., and his portraits of the Romantics after paintings in the Murrays' collection, were published in parts by John Murray in 1833-4. Here they appear with descriptive text by Brockenden in this three-volume collected edition. Included are portraits of 'Monk' Lewis, Southey, Coleridge, Clare, Murray, Caroline Lamb, along with other engravings of European and Middle-Eastern scenes associated with Byron, from Missolonghi to the Palace of Ali Pacha and the Dungeon of Chillon. (Cf. Blackmer, 208 - first edition).
Seller: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$737.59 + shipping
Description: The third edition of the collection of Lord Byron's letters and journals, edited by Thomas Moore, illustrated throughout. The third edition of this work. Complete in three volumes. A collection of the letters and journals written by Lord Byron. Lord Byron is one of the most notorious figures of British history, causing scandals with his flamboyant personality of excesses, debts, love affairs, as well as the rumoured affair with his half-sister. He was a romantic poet, with is prolific writings being loved in the two centuries since his death. Volume I with a frontispiece, and fifteen plates. Volume II with a frontispiece, and thirteen plates. Volume III with a frontispiece, and thirteen plates. With a short note on the life of Byron by Thomas Moore. Moore was an Irish poet who was the literary executor for Lord Byron, thus burning Lord Byron's memoir after his death. With a bookplate to the front pastedowns. Collated, complete. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smar. A little rubbing to the spines and boards. Tape repairs to the front hinge of Volume I. Bookplate to the front pastedowns. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd spot. Tidemark to the frontispiece of Volume I. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in book form of Finden's celebrated illustrated edition of Byron's works; uniformly bound with a first edition of Finden's Byron Beauties. Octavo, four volumes bound in full pebbled calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt. Finden's Landscape & Portrait Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron is illustrated with 129 engraved plates including illustrated title pages. Finden's Byron Beauties is illustrated with 39 engraved plates. In very good condition. A unique example of this important set in the Byron canon. "It was William and Edward Finden's illustrations to Byron that substantially enhanced the status of their work. Following his death in Greece in 1824, their engravings sensitively conveyed to a wide contemporary audience images of Byron's life and work. Finden's Landscape Illustrations to the Life and Works of Byron finally appeared in fourteen monthly parts, with both Murray's and Tilt's names on the paper wrappers, from January 1832. [The Illustrations] created a great sensation, and led to further projects to engrave the life and works of other poets" (ODNB).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: The complete works of Lord Byron. Small octavo, 17 volumes. Bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine. Engraved frontispiece and title-page in each volume by Finden. In excellent condition showing only light wear. A very attractive set. "Byron is to a far greater degree than the other romanticists the poet of humankind. He conveys with tremendous power the majesty and desolation of history, the vanity of pomp and pride, the transitoriness of fame. And he is the poet of contemporary society, keen to discern the false and the corrupt, courageous in denunciation yet with pity for the young and innocent⦠As a poet he mirrored brilliantly and without distortion an absorbingly interesting world" (Baugh, 1229).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$2244.83 + shipping
Description: An attractively bound set of "the great early edition of the prose and poetry edited by Thomas Moore and John Wright. The new edition, which dominated Byron studies for more than fifty years, provoked and underwrote a series of key scholarly works" (ODNB). The Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852), embarrassed that Byron had commented in print upon his duel challenge to the critic Francis Jeffrey, subsequently challenged Byron. "Fortunately Byron was touring the eastern Mediterranean, and was unaware of Moore's anger. Both challenges, as it happens, led to warm and lasting friendships, remarkable evidence of the charm and good nature of the Irish poet" (ibid.) Moore later became the dedicatee of The Corsair (1814) and Byron's literary executor. "It was William and Edward Finden's illustrations to Byron that substantially enhanced the status of their work. Following his death in Greece in 1824, their engravings sensitively conveyed to a wide contemporary audience images of Byron's life and work" (ODNB). The Letters and Journals section was first published in two quarto volumes in 1830. The Works was initially advertised as comprising 14 volumes, and printing ran from 1832 to 1833; all the present volumes are dated 1833 and advertise 17 volumes on the title pages. 17 volumes, octavo (162 x 99 mm). Contemporary green straight-grain morocco, spines lettered and decorated with floral tooling in gilt, rules and floral roll on covers, board edges and turn-ins gilt, blue silk moiré-patterned endpapers, edges gilt. With 17 steel-engraved frontispieces and vignette title pages, some with tissue guards, engraved plate in vol. VI, all by William and Edward Francis Finden after various artists, and 2 folding manuscript facsimiles. All volumes with half-titles except vols. I, VII, and IX. Prelims with ownership signature of Cherry Roma Anne Jackson (1854-1930), Ahanesk, Co. Cork. Spines uniformly lightly sunned, bindings square and firm, slight oxidization to plates, contents clean. A very good set indeed.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Set of 17 volumes in handsome full-leather19th century bindings, gilt and rebound with minor sunning, scuffed joints and the occasional rubbed edge. Early edition. All edges gilt. Former owner's bookplate inside covers and faint overprinting from the plates, but o/w clean. Contains frontis etchings and 202 plates, (iii) p286 mispagnated as 284, (vi) extra plate p224, (viii) missing plate p199, (xiv) extra plate p295. Contains handwritten listings of all the plates at the rear of each volume, suspected to be by the binder as the plates have been trimmed. Published only 8 years after his death, this collection is a magnificent tribute to his life. Each volume feels wonderful in your hand and would be a pleasure to read. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada