Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt
by BYRON, Lord
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- Hardcover
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1812.. Second edition, 8vo, xii, 300, (2) pp. Small strip cut from the top of the title page, lacking the folding facsimile at the end, light foxing, light damp stain to the top corner through the second half of the volume, marbled endpapers. Contemporary vellum with some marks and staining, a.e.g., gilt title and crest to the spine, rather dull. Six new poems were added to this edition. Wise I p.52. Originally published the same year in quarto.
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- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45818
- Title
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt
- Author
- BYRON, Lord
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: John Murray
- Date Published
- 1812.
- Keywords
- Literature Poetry
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Bow Windows Bookshop
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Lewes, East Sussex
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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