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[DOUBLE FORE–EDGE PAINTING] BYRON, Lord George Gordon (1788–1824). Lord Byron’s Poems. London: John Murray, 1813/1814. 5 works in 2 volumes containing canto’s I and II of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, A Romaunt: and Other Poems in Vol. I (1814, eighth edition); Vol. II containing The Giaour, A Fragment of a Turkish Tale (1814, eleventh edition with foldout at rear); The Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale (1813, second edition); Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (1814, eighth edition); and Lara, A Tale (1814, fourth edition). 8vos. Both volumes uniformly bound in period full olive straight grain morocco, framed in gilt and in decorative blind tooling, raised bands rolled in gilt, elaborate gilt and blind scrollwork in compartments, dentelle turn-ins, all edges gilt concealing a DOUBLE FORE EDGE PAINTING TO BOTH VOLUMES with scenes containing views of Newark Castle, Southwark Bridge, The British Museum (ca. 1820s) and Newstead Abbey (Byron’s family seat). Faint rubbing to joints, pale spotting to end leaves and occasionally to margins. Provenance: From the library of a local Chicago collector, part one.