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FORE-EDGE PAINTING. BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD. 1788-1824. The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale. BOUND WITH: The Siege of Corinth. AND: The Prisoner of Chillon. AND: Poems. AND: Poems on Domestic Circumstances. AND: Monody of the Death of ... Sheridan. AND: The Lament of Tasso. AND: Manfred. AND: Mazeppa. AND: Beppo. AND: The Age of Bronze. London: Printed by T. Davison, for John Murray (except as indicated), 1813; 1816; 1816; 1816; for J. Bumpus, 1816; 1817; 1817; 1817; 1819; 1818; for John Hunt, 1823. 11 works in one volume. 8vo (210x131mm). With four engraved plates. Black straight-grain morocco, all edges gilt, fore-edge painting. Custom fleece-lined slipcase. Some offsetting to leaves adjacent to plates, light uniform browning in “Manfred,” small split to upper joint at head of spine. Provenance: Helmut N. Friedlaender (book label). WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF THE CASTLE OF CHILLON. First editions of “Corinth,” “Chillon,” “Poems,” “Manfred” (second issue), and “Mazeppa.” Third editions of “Giaour,” “Tasso,” and “Bronze.” Fifth edition of “Beppo.” “New” edition of “Monody.” Presumably later edition of “Domestic Circumstances.”