Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Title:
The poetical works of Lord Byron.
Alternate Title(s):
Poems
Published / Created:
London : John Murray ... , 1839.
Physical Description:
8 v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Richard Brown Baker
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC: British Art Center copy is extra-illustrated with 1,468 engraved portraits and views. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in 17 volumes in red gold-tooled calf with silk doublures.
Contents:
v.1. Childe Harold's pilgrimage ; The Giaour -- v. 2. The bride of Asydos ; The corsair ; Lara ; The siege of Corinth ; Parisina ; The prisoner of Chillon ; Beppo ; Mazeppa ; The island -- v. 3. Hours of idleness ; English bards and Scotch reviewers ; Hints from Horace ; The curse of Minerva ; The waltz ; Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte ; Hebrew melodies ; Domestic pieces ; Monody on the death of Sheridan -- v.4. The lament of Tasso ; Ode on Venice ; The Morgante Maggiore ; The prophecy of Dante ; The blues ; The vision of judgement ; The age of Bronze ; Occasional pieces -- v. 5. Manfred ; Marino Faliero ; Heaven and earth ; Sartdanapalus -- v. 6. The two Foscari ; The deformed transformed ; Cain ; Werner -- v. 7-8. Don Juan.
Subject Terms:
Spottiswoode, A. -- Printer. | Murray, John -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance) | Doublures (Binding).
Contributors:
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824. Plays. | Finden, Edward Francis, 1791–1857. Finden's illustrations of the life and works of Lord Byron.