BYRON, George Gordon Noel (1788-1824). The Bride of Abydos. A Turkish Tale . [Bound with:] -- The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish tale ... seventh edition, with some additions . London: John Murray 1813. 2 works in one volume, 8° (218 x 132mm). 2 engraved plates by E. Finden, one a view of Harrow after C. Stanfield, the other of Missolonghi after W. Purser. (Occasional light browning.) Slightly later green calf gilt, edges gilt (rubbed, upper joint tender at head). Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR (publisher's clerk's ink inscription to flyleaf of first work 'From the author' to:) -- SAMUEL ROGERS (manscript corrections in his hand, in pencil to p.4, and in ink to p.47 inserting two missing lines) -- W. Hamilton (a.l.s. receipt acknowledging return to Hamilton from the Byron Loan Exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall, dated 30th June 1877) -- bookseller's clipped description pasted to flyleaf -- Michael Foot (a.n.s. loosely inserted presenting 'A Byronic gift for a true Byron lover' to:) -- Ian Gilmour.
BYRON, George Gordon Noel (1788-1824). The Bride of Abydos. A Turkish Tale . [Bound with:] -- The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish tale ... seventh edition, with some additions . London: John Murray 1813. 2 works in one volume, 8° (218 x 132mm). 2 engraved plates by E. Finden, one a view of Harrow after C. Stanfield, the other of Missolonghi after W. Purser. (Occasional light browning.) Slightly later green calf gilt, edges gilt (rubbed, upper joint tender at head). Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR (publisher's clerk's ink inscription to flyleaf of first work 'From the author' to:) -- SAMUEL ROGERS (manscript corrections in his hand, in pencil to p.4, and in ink to p.47 inserting two missing lines) -- W. Hamilton (a.l.s. receipt acknowledging return to Hamilton from the Byron Loan Exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall, dated 30th June 1877) -- bookseller's clipped description pasted to flyleaf -- Michael Foot (a.n.s. loosely inserted presenting 'A Byronic gift for a true Byron lover' to:) -- Ian Gilmour. FIRST EDITION, THE FIRST VARIANT OF THE FIRST ISSUE, without the errata leaf, p.47 with 20 lines; p.60 has the eighth line numbered 720. The errors are corrected in Samuel Roger's hand, and the volume was presumably bound for him (he is the dedicatee of The Giaour ) with the insertion of two relevant plates. The later political provenance of Michael Foot and Ian Gilmour is fascinating; Lord Gilmour wrote The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time (2002) and was chairman of the Byron Society from 2003 until his death in 2007. Randolph, p.29-30 ( Abydos ), p.28 ( Giaour ); Wise Byron I, pp.85-87 ( Abydos ), pp. 83-84 ( Giaour ). A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.
BYRON, George Gordon Noel (1788-1824). The Bride of Abydos. A Turkish Tale . [Bound with:] -- The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish tale ... seventh edition, with some additions . London: John Murray 1813. 2 works in one volume, 8° (218 x 132mm). 2 engraved plates by E. Finden, one a view of Harrow after C. Stanfield, the other of Missolonghi after W. Purser. (Occasional light browning.) Slightly later green calf gilt, edges gilt (rubbed, upper joint tender at head). Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR (publisher's clerk's ink inscription to flyleaf of first work 'From the author' to:) -- SAMUEL ROGERS (manscript corrections in his hand, in pencil to p.4, and in ink to p.47 inserting two missing lines) -- W. Hamilton (a.l.s. receipt acknowledging return to Hamilton from the Byron Loan Exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall, dated 30th June 1877) -- bookseller's clipped description pasted to flyleaf -- Michael Foot (a.n.s. loosely inserted presenting 'A Byronic gift for a true Byron lover' to:) -- Ian Gilmour.
BYRON, George Gordon Noel (1788-1824). The Bride of Abydos. A Turkish Tale . [Bound with:] -- The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish tale ... seventh edition, with some additions . London: John Murray 1813. 2 works in one volume, 8° (218 x 132mm). 2 engraved plates by E. Finden, one a view of Harrow after C. Stanfield, the other of Missolonghi after W. Purser. (Occasional light browning.) Slightly later green calf gilt, edges gilt (rubbed, upper joint tender at head). Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR (publisher's clerk's ink inscription to flyleaf of first work 'From the author' to:) -- SAMUEL ROGERS (manscript corrections in his hand, in pencil to p.4, and in ink to p.47 inserting two missing lines) -- W. Hamilton (a.l.s. receipt acknowledging return to Hamilton from the Byron Loan Exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall, dated 30th June 1877) -- bookseller's clipped description pasted to flyleaf -- Michael Foot (a.n.s. loosely inserted presenting 'A Byronic gift for a true Byron lover' to:) -- Ian Gilmour. FIRST EDITION, THE FIRST VARIANT OF THE FIRST ISSUE, without the errata leaf, p.47 with 20 lines; p.60 has the eighth line numbered 720. The errors are corrected in Samuel Roger's hand, and the volume was presumably bound for him (he is the dedicatee of The Giaour ) with the insertion of two relevant plates. The later political provenance of Michael Foot and Ian Gilmour is fascinating; Lord Gilmour wrote The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time (2002) and was chairman of the Byron Society from 2003 until his death in 2007. Randolph, p.29-30 ( Abydos ), p.28 ( Giaour ); Wise Byron I, pp.85-87 ( Abydos ), pp. 83-84 ( Giaour ). A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.
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