The Works of the Right Hon. Lord Byron - 2 volumes in 1 book

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Leather bound hard cover with re-backed leather spine, original leather boards with some rubbing/wear, gilt titles within black frame on spine. Printed by T Davison and published by John Murray as two volumes in one book, and dated 1815 on first title page. Volume 1: The Giaour, 1813, a fragment of a Turkish Tale, 6th edition, dedication to Samuel Rogers, advertisement and 66 pages; The Corsair, cantos I and II, 1814, 1st edition 2nd issue, dedication to Thomas Moore, January 2, 1814, xi, 100 pages including notes; Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, 1814 printed by W Bulmer, 7th edition, 17 pages; Hebrew Melodies, 1st edition, 1815, 50 pages, and On the death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart., 3 pages, 2 pages of adverts including for Samuel Rogers' Jacqueline and Thomas Campbell's selected beauties of English poetry 'in the press', and prices for Byron's works. Volume II (1815): The Siege of Corinth A Poem, 22 January 1816 dedicated to John Hobhouse, 57 pages including notes and History of the Turks; Parisina, A Poem, 24 pages with notes and dedicated to Scrope Beardmore Davies; The Lament of Tasso, 4th edition, 1817, 18 pages; Beppo, A Venetian Story, 5th edition, 1818, 51 pages with a page of adverts; Mazeppa A Poem, 1819, 46 pages; Ode, 8 pages; A Fragment, June 17, 1816, 11 pages. Each poem has a separate title page. Overall the book itself is in very good condition. N° de ref. del artículo 003859

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