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Item 365152The Age of Bronze.

[Byron, Lord].

Price: $250

London: Printed for John Hunt, 22, Old Bond Street, 1823. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Age of Bronze Add to Wish List

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Item 352368English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire.

[Byron, Lord George Gordon].

Price: $2,500

London: James Cawthorn, [1809]. First edition, with half-title. Read More Item Details for English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire Add to Wish List

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Item 352339Autograph letter, signed, with initials (“N. B.”), to George Stevens, written below a letter in Italian by Pietro Gamba.

Byron, [George Gordon Noel], Lord.

Price: $30,000

[Cephalonia]: November 7, 1823. A notable Byron letter, showing his commitment to join the armed struggle in Greece, just before he left Cephalonia for the Greek mainland. As is frequently the case, Byron writes beneath a letter from Count Gamba (whose sister was Byron’s mistress, Countess Guiccioli), addressed “Caro Stevens”..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter, signed, with initials (“N. B.”), to George Stevens, written below a letter in Italian by Pietro Gamba Add to Wish List

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Item 352119Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. With Notes. The Prophecy of Dante, A Poem.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon).

Price: $750

London: John Murray, 1821. First edition, first issue (Doge’s speech at p. 151 is only 5-1/2 lines). Written in Ravenna the year before another of Lord Byron's plays based on the lives of past doges, The Two Foscari, and published in the same year, Marino Faliero was set in Venice..... Read More Item Details for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. With Notes. The Prophecy of Dante, A Poem Add to Wish List

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Item 346172Letter to **, on the Rev. W. L. Bowles’ strictures on the life and writings of Pope.

Byron, Lord [George Gordon].

Price: $400

London: John Murray, 1821. Second Edition. The recipient of the letter was its publisher, John Murray. Read More Item Details for Letter to **** ******, on the Rev. W. L. Bowles’ strictures on the life and writings of Pope Add to Wish List

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Item 346171The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon).

Price: $1,000

London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, (presumed) first state with recto of E8 (p. 61) blank and with both Murray’s list of Byron’s poems and the imprint on p. 62. Read More Item Details for The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems Add to Wish List

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Item 326914Poems.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon).

Price: $250

London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, with half-title with double rule. Consistent with the first issue, this copy lacks the poem "To Samuel Rogers", the text ends at p. 38, and the unnumbered final leaf C4 has the Notes on the recto. Consistent with the first issue the Contents does..... Read More Item Details for Poems Add to Wish List

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Item 320732Poems of Lord Byron.

Byron, Lord George.

Price: $3,000

London: Florence Press, 1923. Read More Item Details for Poems of Lord Byron Add to Wish List

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Item 311730English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon).

Price: $400

London: Printed for James Cawthorn, [1809]. First edition, spurious issue. Identified by Wise as a spurious issue of the First Edition, with the fourth line of the Preface reading ‘Aulhor’ instead of ‘Author’ and the misspellings ‘despatch’ and ‘wizzard’ on page 5, and the paper in this copy is unwatermarked..... Read More Item Details for English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire Add to Wish List

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Item 310761The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron. In Five Volumes.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon).

Price: $1,250

Zwickau: Brothers Schumann, 1818. The first five volumes, complete in itself, of the "Pocket edition of English classics" published by August and Friedrich Schumann of Zwickau in Saxony. The series, which presented contemporary English literature, eventually exteneded to many volumes, with the Byron volumes alone taking up some 30 parts..... Read More Item Details for The Works of the Right Honourable Lord Byron. In Five Volumes Add to Wish List

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Item 310523Letter to **, on the Rev. W. L. Bowles’ strictures on the life and writings of Pope.

Byron, Lord [George Gordon].

Price: $300

London: John Murray, 1821. First edition, second issue, with 6 pp addenda at back; 2500 copies of the entire edition printed. The recipient of the letter was its publisher, John Murray. Read More Item Details for Letter to **** ******, on the Rev. W. L. Bowles’ strictures on the life and writings of Pope Add to Wish List

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Item 303869Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems, Original and Translated.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon).

Price: $9,000

Newark: S. and J. Ridge, 1807. First edition, first issue. Byron's first regularly published book, following the privately printed Fugitive Pieces and Poems on Various Occasions. Inscribed on a front flyleaf by the recipient: "The gift of Lord Byron, James Wynne De Bathe. September 1807. London." De Bathe (1792-1828) attended..... Read More Item Details for Hours of Idleness, a Series of Poems, Original and Translated Add to Wish List

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Item 302355Hebrew Melodies.

Byron, [George Gordon Noel], Lord.

Price: $350

Philadelphia: James P. Parke … Wm. Fry, Printer, 1815. First Philadelphia edition. Shaw and Shoemaker lists the Boston edition of 1815 as the first American, with 2 editions published in New York that same year. Read More Item Details for Hebrew Melodies Add to Wish List

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Item 300407The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Collected and Arranged with Notes by Sir Walter Scott, Lord Jeffrey, etc.

Byron, Lord.

Price: $125

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1863. New and Complete edition. Read More Item Details for The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Collected and Arranged with Notes by Sir Walter Scott, Lord Jeffrey, etc Add to Wish List

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Item 267757Hours of Idleness.

Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel.

Price: $800

Newark: S. & J. Ridge, 1807. First edition, Large Paper (second issue), with half-title. Byron's first regularly published book, following the privately printed Fugitive Pieces and Poems on Various Occasions. This copy has the second issue points as follows: leaf D3 (i.e., pp 21-22) is not a cancel; p. 114..... Read More Item Details for Hours of Idleness Add to Wish List

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Item 260784Beppo, A Venetian Story.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon).

Price: $175

London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1818. Seventh edition. Attractive untrimmed copy of Byron’s light verse tale (with numerous asides from the "broken Dandy" he styled himself), written in 1817 while he stayed in Venice, entangled in love affairs. "The complications of these amorous adventures form the source of much amusement in..... Read More Item Details for Beppo, A Venetian Story Add to Wish List

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Item 259910Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon).

Price: $750

London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1818. First edition, second issue (see Wise for list of ponts). In the author's estimation, the most successful canto of his masterpiece. Read More Item Details for Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth Add to Wish List

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Item 259903Lara, a Tale; Jacqueline, a Tale.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon), and Samuel ROGERS.

Price: $250

London: Printed for J. Murray, Albemarle-Street, by T. Davison, Whitefriars, 1814. First edition. Read More Item Details for Lara, a Tale; Jacqueline, a Tale Add to Wish List

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Item 259844Don Juan. Cantos IX.—X. — AND XI.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon).

Price: $750

London: Printed for John Hunt, 1823. First edition, Large Paper. Read More Item Details for Don Juan. Cantos IX.—X. — AND XI Add to Wish List

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Item 259841Don Juan. Cantos XII.—XIII.— AND XIV.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon).

Price: $750

London: Printed for John Hunt, 1823. First edition, Large Paper issue. Read More Item Details for Don Juan. Cantos XII.—XIII.— AND XIV Add to Wish List

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Item 259726Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life by Thomas Moore.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon).

Price: $500

London: John Murray, 1830. First edition. This is the first full length biography of Byron. It is considered especially important for the anonymous contributions made by Mary Shelley as well as Moore's personal recollections. It is also the first substantial publication of Byron's letters. Because of its bulk, it is..... Read More Item Details for Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life by Thomas Moore Add to Wish List

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Item 259725The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems.

Byron, Lord (George Gordon).

Price: $1,250

London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, (presumed) first state with recto of E8 (p. 61) blank and with both Murray’s list of Byron’s poems and the imprint on p. 62. “There are seven pillars of Gothic mold, / In Chillon’s dungeons deep and old” Byron's very free interpretation of the..... Read More Item Details for The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems Add to Wish List

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