- Museum number
- 1992,0406.49
- Description
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Byron, George Gordon, Baron Byron. The poetical works. Reprinted from the original editions, with explanatory notes, &c. [Monogram of Frederick Warne]. Portrait and original illustrations. London: Frederic Warne and Co., Bedford Street, Strand, [1878] . Bungay : Clay and Taylor, printers. viii, 668p. 8 plates. With ten pages of publisher’s titles bound at the end. In the publisher’s series “The Lansdowne Poets”, this work is described as: “Entirely new edition, red line border. With original notes steel portraits, and full page illustrations. Large crown 8o, cloth extra, gilt edges, price 3s. 6d. each; or in morocco elegant, 8s.” The frontispiece plate is a portrait of Lord Byron “Aet 27”, signed: “London. Frederick Warne & Co.” Apart from the frontispiece, the plates are signed: “A Houghton” and “Dalziel”. The plate opposite page 60 is entitled: “Jephthah’s daughter”. Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front pastedown. Inscribed on the front endpaper recto: “/For Alice/ With Annie’s love/ and best wishes/ November 14th 1878./”
Binding: Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Blue fine rib diagonal-grain cloth. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. The lower cover is blocked in blind and in relief. A single fillet is blocked in blind on the borders. Inside this, repeating patterns of Greek frets (on each side), squares (head and tail), ‘two leaves and flowers (inner head and tail) curling stem and buds ((on each corner) - all form an ornamental frame. The upper cover is blocked in gold and in black. A single black fillet is blocked on the borders. At the head, the series title: “/The Lansdowne Poets/” is blocked in black within a rectangular panel formed by two black fillets. Decoration of two lyres, blocked in gold, and columns blocked in black (beneath each lyre), with plants blocked in relief within each - all forms an inner ornamental frame. The perimeter of the oval centre is blocked in black with fillets and a repeating pattern of ‘small squares and rectangles’. On the centre, the word: “/Byron./.” is blocked in gold with in a rectangular panel formed by two fillets, one gold and one black. Above and below this, horizontal hatch is blocked in gold, with leaves blocked in black, with their veins being blocked in gold, and with flower heads blocked in gold, and the flower bases being blocked in black. Towards the tail, the words: “/ Notes, Illustrations./” are blocked in relief, surrounded by black blocking, within a rectangular lettering-piece, with a single fillet blocked in relief on its borders. At the tail, more decoration in black, showing stylised plant patterns. The spine is blocked in gold and in black From the head downwards, the decoration is: three fillets across the spine, blocked in black; the series title:”/ Lansdowne/ Poets/” blocked in gold; above and below the title word, there are three more fillets blocked in black, the lowest of which has decoration in relief within it; two gold filets; the word: “/Byron./” blocked in gold; an oval panel, with the same design as on the upper cover, with the same black borders, the same horizontal gold hatch, with stems and leaves blocked in gold and in black; the word: “/ Illustrated/” is blocked in black in the middle of this oval panel; seven fillets blocked in black with stylised plant decoration fillets four and five, and between six and seven; just above the tail, the words: “/ F. Warne & Co./” are blocked in gold; two black fillets at the tail.
- Production date
- 1878
- Dimensions
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Height: 186 millimetres
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Thickness: 35 millimetres
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Width: 130 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The poetical works
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.49
