May 17, 2007 - Sale 2114

Sale 2114 - Lot 302

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BYRON, LORD GEORGE GORDON NOEL. Hebrew Melodies. 8vo, rear cover original wrapper, front has been tastefully replaced, endpapers foxed and lightly soiled; folding cloth chemise bearing the bookplate of Byron bibliographer Francis L. Randolph, laid into 1/4 morocco gilt clamshell case. London: Printed for John Murray, 1815

Additional Details

first edition, first issue. Uncut, and containing half-title, 1814 watermark, printed list of Byron's writing, four leaves containing the half-titles and title-pages of the published Works of Lord Byron (intended for binding Byron's Works into two volumes), four pages of advertisements dated June 1815 (including Roger's Jacqueline), and rear blank. Hebrew Melodies contains the first appearance of "She Walks in Beauty" and "The Destruction of Sennacherib." Wise I, pages 103-04; Randolph 50. 104.
with--A copy of Randolph's book Studies for a Byron Bibliography. Lititz: Sutter House, 1979 and a TLS with his notes concerning some of the poems.