Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
BYRON, LORD GEORGE GORDON NOEL. The Siege of Corinth, a Poem / Parisina, a Poem. Half-title, 4 pages of publisher's advertisements at end dated February 1816. 8vo, original plain brown wrappers, dampstain to outer edge of front cover, mild edgewear and a few light scattered stains, old ownership signature on lower rear wrapper (also two faint inscriptions on front free endpaper), spine foot rubbed with minimal loss, paper reinforcements on versos of both covers, first blank with small portion of lower outer corner excised cleanly; bookplate of Abel E. Berland; preserved in custom cloth chemise. London: John Murray, 1816

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first edition in very scarce original wrappers, also retaining advertisements that are usually lacking, and in surprisingly good condition.