Nov 17, 2020 - Sale 2551

Sale 2551 - Lot 146

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BYRON, LORD GEORGE GORDON NOEL. Don Juan, Cantos I-XVI. 6 volumes. First vol. 4to, others 8vo, uniformly bound in full polished navy calf by Zaehnsdorf, covers ruled in gilt, spines gilt in compartments with morocco lettering pieces, three vols. chipped with loss of letters, all edges gilt, rebacked with spines laid down; inner dentelles. First editions. Half-titles in Volumes I-II; errata slip in Volume VI; advertisements in III and VI. Byron's final work, begun in 1819 and left unfinished at the time of his death in 1824. Randolph, pp. 69, 82-84, 86-88; Wise, Byron II, pp. 3-8. London: Thomas Davison, 1819-21 and John & H. L. Hunt, 1823-24