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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
by Lord Byron [George Gordon]
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. 2nd Edition. VG. Bound by Charles Hering, the most distinguished and influential English binder of the first decade of the 19th century. Binding signed. Edge wear along spine, boards, and tips. Full s. q. morocco elaborately decorated in gold. Silk end papers and partial leather dentelles. Moderate foxing. Gilt text block. Folding facsimile plate in Greek and errata page.
Charles Hering from Göttingen/Germany, was called "the artistic successor to Roger Payne, the doyen of English bookbinders". He worked for Lord Spencer and the statesman Thomas Grenville. The wealthy and famous West End clientele such as Lord Byron frequented his shop at 34 St. Martin's Street.
Synopsis
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition. He himself disliked the poem, because he felt it revealed too much of himself. In it a young man (called childe after the medieval term for a candidate for knighthood) travels to distant lands to relieve the boredom and weariness brought on by a life of dissipation. It is thought to be a comment on the post-Revolutionary and -Napoleonic generation, who were weary of war.
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- EGR books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3138
- Title
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
- Author
- Lord Byron [George Gordon]
- Format/Binding
- Charles Hering
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1812
- Pages
- 300
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Binding;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
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