Byron (Lord), Childe Harold's Pigrimage, extra-illustrated '...

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Byron (Lord), Childe Harold's Pigrimage, extra-illustrated 'grangerised' copy, London: John Murray, 1845, half-title, divisional titles, xvi, 227pp, illustrated with 47 engraved plates, some of which are 60 as called for, including the portrait frontispiece engraved by Finden after Phillips, but most are uncalled for and thus extra-illustrations, including 6 title-page proofs printed on India paper and press-rolled onto leaves, unlettered and other proof states of Ada Lovelace portraits, some plates in duplicate states, etc., numerous engraved vignettes, a fine binding of contemporary olive green morocco gilt, the lettered spine gilt to a Neoclassical design, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, pastedown with later 19th/early 20th c polychrome printed armorial bookplate, 8vo

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Auction Date: 20th Sep 2024 at 10am

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