Byron, full leather, Budworth bookplate, rugby
Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Paris, no publisher. 1827. 12mo. (3x4.25 inches). Full leather, metal clasp, gilt title. Notable for the armorial bookplate and inked initials of 19th-century British rugby forward Richard Dutton Budworth; also with the signature of his father, Philip John Budworth, on a front blank. Budworth was an original member of the Barbarians Football Club. An early, French pirated edition.
Condition Report: Very Good. Lick scuffing to leather; clasp in working order. Possibly missing a frontispiece.
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Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Paris, no publisher. 1827. 12mo. (3x4.25 inches). Full leather, metal clasp, gilt title. Notable for the armorial bookplate and inked initials of 19th-century British rugby forward Richard Dutton Budworth; also with the signature of his father, Philip John Budworth, on a front blank. Budworth was an original member of the Barbarians Football Club. An early, French pirated edition.
Condition Report: Very Good. Lick scuffing to leather; clasp in working order. Possibly missing a frontispiece.