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[BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD)] Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn. By Horace Hornem, Esq., FIRST EDITION, Riviere Binding, 1813
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[BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL, LORD)]
Waltz: An Apostrophic Hymn. By Horace Hornem, Esq., FIRST EDITION, title with 3 repairs at inner margin and with faded old ink inscriptions ("Lord Byron" and "Suppressed") in blank area, final leaf backed with archival tissue, green morocco gilt, by F. Bedford (gilt stamped inside upper cover), sides with triple line outer border, and inner panel with decorative corner-pieces, spine elaborately tooled with gilt lettering, gilt dentelles, g.e. [Hayward 220; Wise. A Byron Library, p.37], 4to, Printed by S. Gosnell, for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813
Footnotes
VERY RARE. Byron wrote this poem satirising the fashionable waltz whilst staying in Cheltenham in 1812. He offered to his usual publisher John Murray, who decided not to publish. The following year it appeared anonymously to little fanfare, and with Byron deciding not to acknowledge himself as author.
Provenance: Simon Nowell-Smith, bookplate and loosely inserted typed letter dated October 1970 from the bookseller Warren R. Howell, stating that this copy came from the collection of Mrs William H. Crocker (1861–1934); Judith Adams Nowell-Smith; Geoffrey Bond, bookplates.