[Byroniana]

Pamphlet, 8vo (8 3/8 x 5 1/8 in.; 213 x 130 mm). Bound with other pamphlets; condition varies.  Half brown morocco gilt; worn and rubbed.

Major G. G. Byron (signature on several pamphlets) — sold Christie's London, 28 November 1997, lot 164 (with 18 other volumes)

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Delavigne's Messénienne sur Lord Byron is bound up in a remarkable sämmelband assembled by the famous Bryon and Shelley forger Major Byron ("Geo. Gordon Byron"), whose signature is on the titles of several pamphlets.  The volume includes seven pamphlets and a fragment, "Reminiscences of Lord Byron" from Leicester Stanhope's Greece in 1823 and 1824.  The other pamphlets include Lamartine's Le Dernier chant du pélerinage d'Harold (1825), Lockhart's Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron. By John Bull (1821), and Louvet's Byron et la liberté (1824).