Lord Byron's Farewell to England : with three other poems, viz. Ode to St. Helena, To my daughter, on the morning of her birth, and To the lily of France.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824.

Byron Collection in Memory of Meyer Davis, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Davis, Meyer (donor)

Davis, Hilda Emery (donor)

Davis, Meyer, Jr. (honoree)

Joline, Adrian H. (Adrian Hoffman), 1850-1912 (bookplate)

Williams, George C. F. (George Clinton Fairchild), 1857-1933 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 31 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Farewell to England

Place of Publication:

London : Published by J. Johnston ... and sold by all booksellers, 1816.

Notes:

The author of the poems is unknown. Cf. Halkett & Laing.

Repudiated by Byron as spurious in a letter to J. Murray, dated 22 July 1816. Cf. Marchand.

"Hamblin and Seyfang, Printers, Garlick-Hill"--T.p. verso.

Signatures: [A]² B-E⁴.

Publisher's advertisements on verso of last printed leaf.

Local Notes:

Given to the Penn Libraries in 1966 by Meyer and Hilda Emery Davis in memory of their son, Meyer Davis, Jr.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full red morocco; gold-stamped covers; five raised, gold-stamped bands on spine; title, purported author's name, place and date of publication stamped in gold on spine; gold-stamped cover-edges and turn-ins; binder's signature ("Bradstreet's") stamped in gold on lower front turn-in; marbled endpapers; gilt tops; original paper wrappers bound in.

Cited in:

Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.) VI, p. 390

Marchand, L.A. Byron's letters, V, p. 84-85

Contains:

Ode to the island of St. Helena.

To my daughter, on the morning of her birth.

To the lily of France.

OCLC:

6122714