Lot 104•
BYRONIANA Lady Noel Byron and the Leighs, FIRST EDITION, COPY NUMBER 33 OF 36 COPIES, Printed for the Descendants of Lord and Lady Byron, by William Clowes, 1887
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BYRONIANA
Lady Noel Byron and the Leighs: Some Authentic Records of Certain Circumstances in the Lives of Augusta Leigh, and Others of Her Family, that Concerned Anne Isabella, Lady Byron, in the Course of Forty Years of Her Separation, FIRST EDITION, "STRICTLY PRIVATE", NUMBER 33 OF 36 COPIES, edited by Ralph Gordon Noel Milbanke, Earl of Lovelace, half-title, publisher's boards with printed spine label spine soiled with loss to label and headband [Wise, Byron II, pp.111-112], 8vo, Printed for the Descendants of Lord and Lady Byron, by William Clowes, 1887
Footnotes
"HOPELESSLY UNOBSTAINABLE" (Wise). Published for the family descendants of Lord and Lady Byron, marked "Strictly Private" on the title-page, in an edition of only 36 copies. Wise notes that it is "the most hopelessly unobtainable book in the whole series of Byroniana. Of the thirty-six copies printed a few only were distributed; the larger proportion of the issue was destroyed"
Provenance: Geoffrey Bond, bookplate.