Research Catalog

Title

The bride of Abydos : a Turkish tale / By Lord Byron.

Author

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.

Publication

London : Printed by T. Davison for John Murray, 1813.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Murray, John, 1778-1843
• Davison, Thomas, 1765?-1830
• Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840

Description

2 p.ℓ., 72 p.; 22 cm.

Note

• Dedication: "To the Right Honourable Lord Holland ..."

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• Wise, T.J. A Bibliography of Byron
• Randolph, F.L. Studies for a Byron Bibliography
• Griffith, R.H. A Descriptive Catalogue
• Coleridge, E.H. Works of Lord Byron
• Tinker Library
• Elkin Mathews Byron and Byroniana
• First Edition Club Bibliographical Catalogue of Byron Books

Call Number

Pforz (Byron, G. Bride of Abydos. 1813 1st ed., 1st issue. London)

OCLC

25932114

Author

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.

Title

The bride of Abydos : a Turkish tale / By Lord Byron.

Imprint

London : Printed by T. Davison for John Murray, 1813.

Edition

[First edition]

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Indexed In:

Wise, T.J. A Bibliography of Byron I, pp. 85-87

Randolph, F.L. Studies for a Byron Bibliography p. 30

Griffith, R.H. A Descriptive Catalogue pp. 30-31

Coleridge, E.H. Works of Lord Byron p. 172

Tinker Library 538

Elkin Mathews Byron and Byroniana 125

First Edition Club Bibliographical Catalogue of Byron Books 9a

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy 1 : First issue. -- Page 43 misnumbered 48. -- Randolph's first variant of the first issue, with the errata slip pasted at bottom of []2 verso. -- Bound in modern brown quarter-calf, gilt vertical spine lettering, marbled boards, mottled edges.

Pforzheimer copy 2 : Second issue. -- Recto [D]⁸, p. 47 has 22 lines, no errata slip. -- Provenance : William Temple Emmet (pencil autograph). -- Binding : Half brown morocco, brown marbled paper boards.

Pforzheimer copy 3 : First issue. -- Errrata slip bound in after []². -- Letter of credit with Byron signature (B 0106), ALs from J.C. Hobhouse (B'ANA 0367), newspaper clipping of Trelawny's letter to Stanhope of 28 April 1824, and portrait of Byron, at front. -- Binding: Crushed purple levant morocco, gilt rules, decorations, crowns with "B" below on spine and covers, gilt rule on cover edges, orange crushed levant morocco doublures with gilt borders and rules, white watered silk on free endpapers, additional binder's leaves at back, t.e.g., bound by Scroll Club N.Y. Shelved as *Pforz 558R 07.

Pforzheimer copy 4: *Pforz BT : First issue. -- Lacking the errata slip. -- With a page of Byron's manuscript corrections tipped in at p. 53 (B 0184). -- With the bookplates of Robert A. Wilson, and David And Lulu Borowitz. -- Bound in half blue morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, original blue wrappers bound in.

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Added Author

Murray, John, 1778-1843, publisher.

Davison, Thomas, 1765?-1830, printer.

Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, dedicatee.

Wilson, Robert Anton, 1932-2007, former owner.

Borowitz, David, 1906-1988, former owner.

Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, former owner.

Emmet, William T. (William Temple), 1869-1918, former owner.

Research Call Number

*Pforz (Byron, G. Bride of Abydos. 1813)

*Pforz BT (Byron, G.) 06

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