61 Byron (Lord). Complete Works, with his Letters and Journals, and Memoirs of his Life, by T. Moore. Illustrated with a fine portrait, and exquisitely engraved vignette frontispieces and title-pages, by Finden, after drawings by Turner, Clarkson, Stanfield and others. 17 vols., new ¾ morocco extra, gilt tooled backs, gilt tops. London: Murray, 1832-33. $65.00
"The handiest, pleasantest and altogether the most distinguished edition of Byron the world has yet seen. The decorative and illustrative frontispiece and vignette titles were engraved after Turner, Stanfield and others at a time when English line engraving was at its best."—Athenaeum.
62 Byron (Lord). Complete Works, with his Letters and Journals, and his Life, by Thomas Moore. Edited and with an Introduction by Richard Henry Stoddard. With many beautiful illustrations, some hand-colored. 16 vols., new ¾ dark green morocco extra, with levant inlays, Imperial silk sides, gilt tops and backs. Boston: Francis Nicolls, 1900.
Published at $160.00. $65.00
The well printed Newstead Edition, of which only a limited number of sets were issued for subscribers only.
63 Byron (Lord) The Works of. Unexpurgated Edition. Finely engraved portrait and frontispieces by Finden. 4 vols., 16mo. New ½ polished light brown calf extra, gilt tooled backs, with brown and blue levant labels, gilt tops, uncut. London: Murray, 1829. $20.00
An exceptionally fine set of an early edition, containing all the suppressed passages omitted from later issues.
64 Another Set. With the vignette engraved frontispieces and titles by Finden, and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of 18 steel plates by Westall; 29 woodcuts by Cruikshank, and 39 exquisite steel plates finely colored by hand. 17 vols., newly bound in ¾ dark green morocco extra, elaborately gilt tooled backs, gilt tops by Morrell. London: Murray, 1833-34. $150.00
Most assuredly one of the finest Extra-Illustrated sets.
65 Butler (Samuel). Hudibras: with Notes by Treadway Russel Nash. A new edition. With engraved portrait and views, and many vignette text illustrations. 2 vols., post 8vo. New ¾ polished wine colored calf extra, full gilt tooled backs, with green levant labels, gilt tops, uncut. London: 1847. $12.50