Shelfmark
Km.1.21
Author
Title
Childe Harold's pilgrimage. A romaunt. By Lord Byron..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for John Murray, 32, Fleet Street; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin. By Thomas Davison, White-Friars., 1812..
Physical description
vi, [2], 226, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : facsim. ; 27 cm.
Note
First edition, second variant of Cantos I and II.
Note
With cancel leaf at pp. 189-90.
Note
Final leaf of booksellers' advertisements.
Provenance
19th century armorial bookplate of Delamere House, Northwich, Cheshire identified as Wilbraham of Delamere, obscuring earlier bookplate.
Provenance
20th century bookplate of Alex Bridge and his inscription dated 1956.
Binding
Contemporary full calf binding; gold-tooled palmette and anthemion border; rebacked in 1965 by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in modern calf with gold-tooled spine compartments; marbled endpapers and text block edges.
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted cutting from Blackwell's Rare Books, Dec. 1979 loosely inserted; additional copy notes in unidentified hand, n.d., loosely inserted.
Added entry--name
Blackwood, William, 1776 - 1834 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Cumming, John (Publisher) bookseller.
Added entry--name
Wilbraham, George, 1779 - 1852 former owner.
Added entry--name
John Murray bookseller.
Added entry--name
Sangorski & Sutcliffe bookbinder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Added entry--place
Scotland Edinburgh.
Added entry--place
Ireland Dublin.
Identifier
B50164