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BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL)
Hebrew Melodies, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, John Murray, 1815

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL)

Hebrew Melodies, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with advertisement listing titles by Samuel Rogers ("Jacqueline") and Thomas Campbell ("Selected Beauties of English Poetry"), half-title, inserted after advertisement leaf are half-titles and titles to be used in binding the pamphlet editions of Byron's poems in 2 volumes, and an additional 4-page publisher's advertisement (dated June 1815, not recorded by Wise) at end, uncut in original grey wrappers (rebacked, light soiling), preserved in gilt-lettered cloth solander box [Randolph 50; Wise I, pp.103-104], 8vo, John Murray, 1815

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Provenance: Abel E. Berland, bookplate; his sale, Christie's New York, 8 October 2001, lot 18.

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