The Works of Lord Byron in Verse and Prose
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Published by George Dearborn, New York, 1837
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Hardcover
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Lovely copy, suitable for display, in brown full morocco with clear, bright gilt decoration on front, rear, and spine ("Byron" on spine). Spine is not faded. Gilt top & bottom of pages. Binding is sound with only a few minor scuff marks. No interior markings; front flyleaf is stained from former papers tucked in, frontspiece opposite title page is loose, original tissue in front of frontspiece plate is in place. 626 pages; contents include poetry, 635 letters, and a number of miscellaneous writings. Seller Inventory # 001110
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Title: The Works of Lord Byron in Verse and Prose
Publisher: George Dearborn, New York
Publication Date: 1837
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
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The Works of Lord Byron; in Verse and Prose, Including his Letters, Journals, Etc., with a Sketch of his Life
Published by
Alexander V. Blake, New York, 1844
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Leather bound. Wear at spine extremities and corners. Leather cracked along top 3" of rear spine edge. Some wear along edges, and surface rubbing. Hinges are cracked; missing flyleaves. Heavy foxing to the first and last couple pages, and to the single plate. Lighter foxing scattered throughout. The top 1" of the half-title page has been cut off. There is a previous owners name pencilled on the half-title page. (Also laid-in is a small sheet dated 1880; this sheet is an itemized tax receipt, in the name of the same previous owner. ) This is a fairly heavy book; Priority and/or International may require shipping over and above standard costs. ; LFH19B; 627 pages. Seller Inventory # 52184
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THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON; IN VERSE AND PROSE. INCLUDING HIS LETTERS, JOURNALS, ETC. WITH A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. (Spine title: "Byron's Works.")
Published by
Hartford [CT]: Silas Andrus & Son, 1847., 1847
Used
Hardcover
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
i-xxviii, 1-319, [1], 1-627 pages. Hardcover: H 25.5cm x L 16.25cm. Original brown full calf leather binding; patches of surface abrasion and staining to boards; dulled slender gilt tooling along scuffed board edges with corners worn; spine decorated with four slightly raised bands as well as gilt lettered black title label which has shallow chipping at its right and left edges; light scuffing at spine ends. All edges marbled but strongly faded; blue endpapers with pastedowns having peeled remnants of dark brown paper. Original owner's purple ink name stamp "J.O. Banks" also on front pastedown and again at top of page vii; same owner's ink price notation and signature at front free endpaper's top right with five-line ink inscription at center "J. O. Banks | Tuskaloosa | Ala | Sep. 1847 | No." Surname ink signature "Banks" at title page's top right. Toning to several initial leaves; pervasive foxing throughout; single pencil notation "Mississippi" found at center fore-edge margin of second page 30; no other pencil notes readily apparent upon a quick perusal; some occasional creasing to leaves. B/w plates retain their tissue guards including interlying guard sheet between frontispiece portrait of Lady Byron and opposing engraved title page. Binding is firm. Else a good+ antiquarian copy. With biographical essay "The Life of Lord Byron" by Fitz-Greene Halleck on pages xv-xxviii. Born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, James Oliver Banks (1829-1904) graduated with a bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alabama in 1847 (with this book's inscription contemporary to Banks' attendance) and 1850 respectively later followed by a medical degree from Jefferson College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Banks entered Civil War military service as a captain in September 1861 in Columbus, Mississippi with Company A, 5th Battalion, Mississippi Confederate Infantry rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in October 1862 with the 43rd Mississippi Infantry participating in action at the Battle of Corinth and Vicksburg with final service in Alabama and Georgia. Banks was first married to Martha Jane Coleman (1833-1868) of Greene County, Alabama with whom he had five children (of which two passed in infancy) and, following her death, married Lucy Watkins Young (1841-1933) on May 11, 1870 with whom he had five children (all surviving to adulthood). Lucy Young was one of ten children of George Hampton Young who owned the architecturally renowned Waverly Plantation on the west bank of the Tombigbee River between Columbus and West Point, Mississippi. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 4.25 pounds (1.92 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {RAS-BindingShelf}. Seller Inventory # NOV24-6338
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The Works of Lord Byron; in Verse and Prose. Including His Letters, Journals, Etc. With A Sketch of His Life
Published by
Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., New York, 1867
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. New York: Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., 1867. Title page dated 1867. Thick volume in fair to good condition. Full tan leather with black spine label, 9.5" tall and 2.25" thick, marbled edges and endpapers, illustrated with tissue protected full page engravings. Some external wear and rubbing with some tiny tears to the spine ends, some surface wear to front joint but cover very secure, text block firm, pages clean with some expected age-toning and a few instances of light scattered foxing, no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 036912
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