BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). Calligraphic Manuscript. [English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.] London, [after 1810].

4to (266 x 203 mm). Title-page printed in gold and black (see below), 121pp. calligraphic cursive manuscript in brown ink in an unknown hand on lightly ruled pages. (Some light marginal toning.) Black Regency straight-grained morocco, sides decorated in blind and gilt, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest decorated in gilt and blind, edges gilt (covers detaching, some wear to extremities, some minor scuffing to sides). Provenance: H. Dunn (printed paper booklabel to front pastedown).

Text transcribed from the fourth edition, which was the last authorized by Byron. The text also includes Byron's Notes and the critique from the Edinburgh Review which promoted Byron's writing English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, and the transcription of "Windsor Poetics," a sonnet regarding the Prince Regent, later George IV, that was considered so savage that Bryon only allowed it to be circulated privately. The title-page was likely printed by James Whitaker, a London-based printer known for this gold printing. With the label of H. Dunn, possibly Henry Dunn (1776-1867), a Maltese shopkeeper in Livorno, Italy. According to tradition, Lord Byron was in Dunn's shop when he heard of Shelley's death (cf. Prothero edition of Byron's Letters and Journals, v. VI, p. 69n).

Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). Calligraphic Manuscript. [English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.] London, [after 1810].

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). Calligraphic Manuscript. [English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.] London, [after 1810].