“ADIEU, ADIEU! MY NATIVE SHORE FADES O’ER THE WATERS BLUE”: HANDSOME BYRON SET IN CONTEMPORARY CALF WITH 15 J.M.W. TURNER ENGRAVINGS
BYRON, George Gordon, Lord. The Poetical Works. London: John Murray, 1854. Ten volumes. 12mo, contemporary full tan calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, burgundy and green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers and edges.
Early edition of Byron’s works, with engraved frontispieces and vignette title pages in each volume, 13 of them from drawings by J.M.W. Turner, plus two additional plates by Turner and a folding facsimile of the manuscript of Byron’s early poem “To D—” in Volume I. In a handsome contemporary binding.
Includes all of Byron’s poems and verse dramas, including his masterworks Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan. Index in Volume X. Owner signatures and bookbinder tickets in each volume.
Occasional scattered light foxing to interiors; light rubbing to contemporary calf. A handsome set.