Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte
BYRON, Lord George Gordon Noel
HALF MOROCCO BY ZAEHNSDORF
Published: John Murray, 1814
Stock code: 9301
Price: £976.00
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in early twentieth century green crushed half morocco, marbled boards with gilt rules, backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, BY ZAEHNSDORF, uncut, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy.
The binding is signed by Zaehnsdorf on front free endpaper verso. As usual, this copy is bound without the half-title and advertisement leaf. 'Very rare, in any condition - the half-title is usually lacking. A copy in wrappers is an extreme rarity' (Randolph). Randolph p. 40; Wise I, p.100.