Selected Works by Byron Lord (20 results)

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Thick paperback, 698 pages. Contains: "Cain", "Beppo", "Don Juan", letters and journals. Former owner's name, address and a numerical notation on flyleaf. A very few underlinings in ink in text. Some discoloration and dog-ear ghosts on covers. Binding tight, square.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedVeryGood. Hardcover; edited with a comprehensive introduction and notes by Peter Quennell; light fading and shelf wear to exterior; fading to pages; in very good condition with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket shows scuffing, light soiling, and small edge tears.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Dark green boards. [9]+x-xlv+722p+[2],illus. Interior very good. 6" split on front spine and front cloth cover peeling back right side 1 1/2" Corners frayed. Edges frayed. Cloth loss head and tail 3/4" Tissue guard pulled but present.

Condition: Good. 1965. Reprint. 703 pages. Green dust jacket with black lettering over blue cloth. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners., with scuffing and marking to boards. Minor sunning to spine and board edges. Unclipped dust jacket. Moderate wear, tear and loss to edges and corners. Minor foxing and tanning to DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Various (illustrator). Three volumes, octavo, volumes 1 and 2 1833, volume 3 1834, halk brown leather, brown cloth covered boards, wear to edges and spines, decoration to spines of volumes 2 and 3 identical and with darkened patches where labels may have been removed, no indication of library usage, all edges gilt, volume 1 marbled end papers with book plate (Hugh Johnson) on front free end paper, moderate foxing, 41 plates as called for, not paginated, 327 pages; volume 2, plain end papers, book plate (John Brown) on front end paper, split in top fore edge if spine, splitting between front end papers reinforced with acid free tape, moderate foxing, 42 plates as called for, plates protected by a blank leaf, unpaginated, 308 pages; volume 3: plain end papers, book plate removed from front end paper, splitting between end papers binding holding and reinforced with acid free tape, moderate foxing, 42 plates as called for, plates protected by a blank leaf, unpaginated 322 pages. A similar but mismatched set of volumes in reasonable condition, would reward rebinding. Heavy item (3.1 kg net weight). Will require additional for postage. [QH] [QP].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Leather bound, marbled end pages. Two of the world's classic series in one volume. See photos for more. DA.

Hard. Condition: Good Minus. Millais, Sir J. E.; McWhirter, J. W.; Smart, Charles; et al (illustrator). Text and illustrations bright, occasional light spotting/foxing throughout, some lightly cracked gutters, binding firm, rubbing and light foxing to boards. Size: 4to.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). A collection of the works of Milton, Byron, and Coleridge, from The Nonesuch Press. Three volumes. This set includes: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, 1948. With English metrical translations of the Latin, Greek, and Italian poems. Written by John Milton, an English poet and intellectual best known for the epic poem Paradise Lost. Selections from Poetry, Letters, & Journals, 1949 Written by Lord Byron, an English romantic poet and peer considered one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and often regarded as among the greatest of English poets. Selected Poetry & Prose, 1950 Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and fading to the spine. internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light scattered spotting to the first and last few pages. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed. book.

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).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. In good condition. Beautifully bound with gilt finished boards and blind stamped cloth. Spines are faded from sun exposure. Light rubbing of gilt finishing on spine and boards. Volume three front board sunned half-way. Spine extremes exhibit typical wear with light crushing. All gilt edges. Volume one has marginalia in pencil. Spots of foxing throughout each volume. Light toning. Tissue guards intact. Bindings intact. Please see photos. Finden s attractive engraved illustrations to works of Byron, taken after drawings and paintings of Turner, Stanfield, Weston, etc. and his portraits of the Romantics after paintings in the Murray s collection, were published in parts by John Murray in 1833-34. 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. COLL1833HLNZ-variant.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A wonderful collection of thirteen first and early edition Lord Byron works, bound in five full calf volumes. Thirteen works bound in five volumes, including later issues of first editions of six works.A wonderful collection of works from one the most famous poets in the English language, also one of the most famous figures in British history, notorious for his controversial life.The first volume present here contains the 1812 fifth edition of 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', featuring cantos I and II, alongside twenty further poems. With an appendix to the rear.The second volume present here consists of four works bound together, each retaining the original title page:The 1814 ninth edition of 'The Giaour'.The 1813 fifth edition of 'The Bride of Abydos'The 1814 second edition of 'The Corsair'. Retaining the original half title.The 1814 third edition of 'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte'. Retaining the original half title.There are five works in the third volume:The 1814 fourth edition of 'Lara, A Tale'. The very scarce 1816 first Rodwell and Martin edition of 'Fare Thee Well'. Randolph notes this was first published privately, with only fifty copies produced. This is one of a number of early editions published in the same year.Canto III of 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', 1816. The first edition, second issue, first variant. Randolph page 59.The 1816 first edition of 'The Prisoner of Chillon'. State unidentified, as this is lacking the final leaf with publisher's imprint, which decides state. There is some debate as to priority of state. Randolph page 61. Also lacking half title.The 1817 first edition of 'Manfred'. First edition, third issue. Page 76 blank. Hamlet quotation to title page. Randolph, page 64. Lacking the half title.With two works in the fourth volume:Canto IV of 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', 1818. The first edition, second issue, with the new paragraph of seven lines to page 160, 'Esortazione' to the final line of page 155.The first edition, second issue of 'Mazeppa', 1819. With publisher's imprint to [71], and advertisement to page 71. Lacking the eight pages of advertisements to the rear. This issue contains the first appearance of Byron's 'A Fragment' (pp 59-69), a vampire tale written as part of the ghost story contest that led to 'Frankenstein'. Lacking the half title.The final volume contains the 1821 first edition of 'Marino Faliero'. The first edition, second issue, variant A. The scarcer of the two variant of the second issue. Lacking the half title.Bookplate of George Gunning of Horton to the front pastedown of first and third volumes. Sir George Gunning, 2nd Baronet (17631823), of Horton, Northamptonshire, was an English MP. In full calf bindings, with gilt detailing to back strips. Externally, excellent. Light rubbing to joints and spine heads and tails. Minor loss to volume label number IV. Volume I front hinge strained but firmly held. Volume II front joint starting, with board holding firm. Volume III joint heads starting, and firmly held. Front joint of volume IV and head and tail of rear joint starting, with boards firmly held. Volume I hinges strained, but firmly held. Bookplate to front pastedown of first and third volumes. Worming to head of volume IV rear pastedown, with worming to head of final five leaves. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright, with the odd instance of light spotting. Very Good. book.

Second Edition. Old calf, binfing sound but worn at edges and scuffed, contents toned with slight scattered foxing, creasing, lacking front endpaper, old owner names.About good. 204 pp.

Half Morocco. Condition: Very Good. 2 vols, [unpaginated]., Handsome dark red half morocco with slightly faded boards. AEG. 84 illustrations as called for. Corners bumped and rubbed, edges scuffed and rubbed. Very minor darkening to margins of pages, foxing to prelims. Generally very good and clean. Large 8vo.

Condition: Very good. First Edition. 3 volumes; 4to 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (220 x 160 mm); pp. vi + 250 + 41 engravings; vol. 2: vi + 154 + 41 engravings; vol. 3: iv + 182 + 42 engravings. Maroon crushed Morocco, with elaborate gilt decorations and a Grecian urn on the front and back covers, 5 raised bands, gilt titling and compartments with decorative compartments and titling on spine; all edges gilt, lilac moiré endpapers, turn-ins with gilt double fillets and corner rosettes; spines and edges somewhat rubbed, spine sunned, front 2 sheets of vol. 1 loose, pages are slightly tanned but otherwise clean, with occasional foxing and offset on pages facing some engravings. The three volumes of this lovely set present a plethora of views and portraits associated to the life, travels, and writings of Lord Byron, from Costantinople to the Parthenon, from the Pantheon to Venice and Gibraltar, and figures ranging from Sir Walter Scott, to Coleridge and Mme de Staël, from Ali Pacha to Byron's own wife Lady Noel Byron and his little daughter Ada. A list of plates at the beginning of each volume lists the subject, artist and sketcher associated to each image, and they include notable names like J.M.W. Turner, David Roberts, Thomas Philips, James Duffield Harding and François Gérard. This great collection was the first of a series of galleries undertaken by William Finden (1778-1852) in collaboration with his brother and aided by a large staff. It was a great success and was followed by several others, including a 15 volume set "Gallery of British Art" (1838-40). His largest plate was an engraved portrait of King George IV after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence.