Byron (Lady Anne Isabella Noel). Lady Noel Byron and the Leighs: Some Authentic Records of Certain Circumstances in the Lives of Augusta Leigh, and Others in her Family, that Concerned Anne Isabella, Lady Byron, in the Course of Forty Years after her Separation [edited by Ralph Gordon Noel Milbanke, Earl of Lovelace], Strictly Private, Printed for the Descendants of Lord and Lady Byron by William Clowes and Sons, 1887, some ink annotations and corrections, light spotting front and rear, original boards, joints cracking, some fading, original buff wrapper, lacking spine, some chips and tears, 8vo. Limited edition, 21/36. Wise, Byron, II, pp. 111-112. Provenance: Malcolm Elwin (1903-1973), Byron family biographer, his notes and corrections. According to Wise, only a few of the thirty-six copies were distributed and most destroyed: “I suppose this must be the most hopelessly unobtainable book in the whole series of Byroniana, surpassing in rarity even Lord Broughton’s ‘Contemporary Account of the Separation of Lord and Lady Byron’, privately printed in 1870, and the first edition of Lady Byron’s ‘Remarks’”. (1)
Byron (Lady Anne Isabella Noel). Lady Noel Byron and the Leighs: Some Authentic Records of Certain Circumstances in the Lives of Augusta Leigh, and Others in her Family, that Concerned Anne Isabella, Lady Byron, in the Course of Forty Years after her Separation [edited by Ralph Gordon Noel Milbanke, Earl of Lovelace], Strictly Private, Printed for the Descendants of Lord and Lady Byron by William Clowes and Sons, 1887, some ink annotations and corrections, light spotting front and rear, original boards, joints cracking, some fading, original buff wrapper, lacking spine, some chips and tears, 8vo. Limited edition, 21/36. Wise, Byron, II, pp. 111-112. Provenance: Malcolm Elwin (1903-1973), Byron family biographer, his notes and corrections. According to Wise, only a few of the thirty-six copies were distributed and most destroyed: “I suppose this must be the most hopelessly unobtainable book in the whole series of Byroniana, surpassing in rarity even Lord Broughton’s ‘Contemporary Account of the Separation of Lord and Lady Byron’, privately printed in 1870, and the first edition of Lady Byron’s ‘Remarks’”. (1)
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