1898-1904 The Works of Lord Byron

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Limited Edition, Scarce, Signed

The scarce edition de luxe of this work, complete in thirteen volumes, and uniformly bound in the publisher's original quarter morocco.

250 copies of this set were produced, with this being number 19, initialled by the publisher, John Murray.

Six volumes of this work are devoted to Byron's poetry, and seven to his letters and journals.

A 'new, revised and enlarged edition', edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge.

Present here are:

Poetry: vol I, with fifteen plates; vol II, with eleven plates; vol III, with ten plates; vol IV, with ten plates; vol V, with eight plates; vol VI, with eight plates. Collated, complete.

Letters and Journals: vol I, with seventeen plates; vol II, with ten plates; vol III, with eight plates; vol IV, with ten plates; vol V, with nine plates; vol VI with eleven plates; vol VII, with seven plates. Collated, complete.

With the bookplate of Laurence W. Hodson, an industrialist and collector, to each front pastedown.