Published by London: Macmillan and Co., 1895
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Missing front board. Physical description; 276 pages. Subjects; Lord Byron. Poetry. English Poetry. 1 Kg.
Published by London: Macmillan and Co., 1895
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
First Edition
First Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Missing front board. Physical description; 276 pages. Subjects; Lord Byron. Poetry. English Poetry. 1 Kg.
Published by London
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
18mo. 18mo. Bound in full blue polished morocco gilt extra, spine with minor wear, by Zaehnsdorf for Brick Row Bookshop. Very Good.
Published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1881
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Stodart (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Matthew Arnold's selection of the poetry of Lord Byron, with a lengthy introduction to the poet and his works. The first edition of this collection, one of 750 large paper copies, and with an engraved portrait of Byron by Edward William Stodart mounted to the title page.In a lengthy introduction, English poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold praises Byron's body of work, favourably comparing him to others of his generation including Shelley.Arnold has grouped Byron's work under four headings: 'Personal, Lyrical, and Elegiac', 'Descriptive and Narrative', 'Dramatic', and 'Satiric', and included much of the Romantic poets most recognisable works, including 'She Walks in Beauty', 'Solitude' and selections from 'The Corsair'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Discoloration to the cloth, most prominent to back strip and board perimeters. Losses to perimeters of paper spine label. Rear hinge starting, with board holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd light handling mark. Very Good. book.
Published by Macmillan,, 1881
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo., First Edition, Large Paper, on laid paper, engraved portrait of Byron by Stodart mounted on title, endpapers mildly browned; original ivory buckram, backstrip with paper label printed in red, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, covers heavily age-stained (backstrip in particular faded to dark brown) else a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 705 COPIES. Arnold contributes an extended Preface.
Published by Macmillan and Co., London, 1881
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo. Pp xxxvi, 276. India paper portrait to title page. Half calf by C.S.Smith, Edinburgh. Raised bands. Marbled boards & endpapers. Top edge gilt. Light shelf wear. Circular ownership blind-stamp to front free endpaper. 750 copies printed, large paper.
Published by Macmilllan, 1881
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Large paper edition, one of 705 copies. 8vo, xxxvi, 276 pp. Full dark brown levant morocco by Alfred Matthews, gilt dentelles, marbled end-papers, top edges gilt, others uncut. Tipped-in engraved frontispiece on India paper (foxed), lithograph portrait of Byron by Stodart pasted on title-page. A handsome book.
Published by London: Macmillan and Co. 1904, 1904
Seller: Charles Russell, ABA, ILAB, est 1978, Cirencester, United Kingdom
Octavo 6x4 inches, very handsomely leather bound in the style of Ramage. Full green morocco, both boards with dual gilt fillets and a gilt central floral arrangement within an oval and quadrangular gilt frame- the petals of the flowers inlaid pink. Spine in compartments, inner dentelles over green water silk endpapers, and all edges gilt. A very pretty volume. One of the Golden Treasury Series often bound by Ramage but here unsigned.