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Auction archive: Lot number 203

BYRON, George Gordon Noel. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte . London: John Murray, 1814.

Auction 22.05.2001
22 May 2001
Estimate
US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$1,058
Auction archive: Lot number 203

BYRON, George Gordon Noel. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte . London: John Murray, 1814.

Auction 22.05.2001
22 May 2001
Estimate
US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$1,058
Beschreibung:

BYRON, George Gordon Noel. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte . London: John Murray 1814. 8 o (206 x 125 mm). Half-title. Modern red quarter morocco. FIRST EDITION. "Very rare, in any condition--the half-title is usually lacking" (Randolph, p.40.). "Of all the pamphlet-poems published by John Murray in octavo size the Ode to Napoleon is by far the rarest. It is now almost impossible to find a copy in the original printed paper wrappers" (Wise Byron I, pp.98-99).

Auction archive: Lot number 203
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

BYRON, George Gordon Noel. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte . London: John Murray 1814. 8 o (206 x 125 mm). Half-title. Modern red quarter morocco. FIRST EDITION. "Very rare, in any condition--the half-title is usually lacking" (Randolph, p.40.). "Of all the pamphlet-poems published by John Murray in octavo size the Ode to Napoleon is by far the rarest. It is now almost impossible to find a copy in the original printed paper wrappers" (Wise Byron I, pp.98-99).

Auction archive: Lot number 203
Auction:
Datum:
22 May 2001
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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