Lot 183: BYRON, George Gordon Noel (1788-1824). The Bride of Abydos. A Turkish Tale . [Bound with:] -- The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish tale ... seventh edition, with some additions . London: John Murray, 1813. 2 works in one volume, 8° (218 x

BYRON, George Gordon Noel (1788-1824). The Bride of Abydos. A Turkish Tale. [Bound with:] -- The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish tale ... seventh edition, with some additions. London: John Murray, 1813. 2 works in one volume, 8° (218 x 132mm). 2 engraved plates by E. Finden, one a view of Harrow after C. Stanfield, the other of Missolonghi after W. Purser. (Occasional light browning.) Slightly later green calf gilt, edges gilt (rubbed, upper joint tender at head). Provenance: PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR (publisher's clerk's ink inscription to flyleaf of first work 'From the author' to:) -- SAMUEL ROGERS (manscript corrections in his hand, in pencil to p.4, and in ink to p.47 inserting two missing lines) -- W. Hamilton (a.l.s. receipt acknowledging return to Hamilton from the Byron Loan Exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall, dated 30th June 1877) -- bookseller's clipped description pasted to flyleaf -- Michael Foot (a.n.s. loosely inserted presenting 'A Byronic gift for a true Byron lover' to:) -- Ian Gilmour.

FIRST EDITION, THE FIRST VARIANT OF THE FIRST ISSUE, without the errata leaf, p.47 with 20 lines; p.60 has the eighth line numbered 720. The errors are corrected in Samuel Roger's hand, and the volume was presumably bound for him (he is the dedicatee of The Giaour) with the insertion of two relevant plates. The later political provenance of Michael Foot and Ian Gilmour is fascinating; Lord Gilmour wrote The Making of the Poets: Byron and Shelley in Their Time (2002) and was chairman of the Byron Society from 2003 until his death in 2007. Randolph, p.29-30 (Abydos), p.28 (Giaour); Wise Byron I, pp.85-87 (Abydos), pp. 83-84 (Giaour). A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.

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FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE IAN GILMOUR, BARON GILMOUR OF CRAIGMILLAR