[FORE-EDGE PAINTING] -- BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). The Gaiour. 1814. --Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, a Romaunt. 1814. --Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Third. 1816. And 2 other titles. All London: Thomas Davison for John Murray.
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[FORE-EDGE PAINTING] -- BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). The Gaiour. 1814. --Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, a Romaunt. 1814. --Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Third. 1816. --Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth. 1818. --Mazeppa, a Poem. 1819– All London: Thomas Davison for John Murray.
5 volumes, small 8vo (217 x 131 mm). One engraved plate folding. (Some light spotting.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt concealing FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS of Rialto Bridge in Venice, Verona, Naples, Rome, and an unidentified coastal Italian village (some light wear to joints and light rubbing).
FIRST EDITIONS of the last three works, a uniformly bound set of Byron's works.
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