Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
Hammer price: | £240 |
BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). The Poetical Works ... A New Edition. London: John Murray, 1855-56. 6 volumes, large 8vo (211 x 140mm). Half titles, engraved portrait frontispiece of Lord Byron in vol. one (occasional light spotting and staining). Attractively bound in full contemporary calf gilt, the spines elaborately decorated in gilt with red and green morocco lettering-pieces, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (lightly rubbed, some scuffing to covers). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). (6)