Byron's Works, 4-Volume Leather Set, Philadelphia, 1854

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A handsome mid-nineteenth-century American edition of Byron's complete works, published in Philadelphia by Henry Carey Baird in 1854 — complete … Read more A handsome mid-nineteenth-century American edition of Byron's complete works, published in Philadelphia by Henry Carey Baird in 1854 — complete in eight volumes, bound here in four. Each volume is bound in full leather over raised bands, with gilt-ruled spine compartments and gilt-lettered "BYRON'S WORKS" labels, and finished with marbled endpapers and edges.

The front free endpaper of one volume carries a period ownership inscription, "Anna Lapsley, Dec. 25th 1855," recording the set as a Christmas gift given the year after its publication. See less