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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt . Cantos I and II. London: Thomas Davison for John Murray William Blackwood and John Cumming, 1812. 4 o (268 x 210 mm). Engraved facsimile of a Romaic letter at end. (Lacks leaf of advertisements, facsimile foxed, some scattered pale foxmarks.) Contemporary blue calf gilt, marbled edges (repaired in morocco at head of spine, rubbed). Provenance : Edward John Stanley 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley and 1st Baron Eddisbury of Winnington (armorial bookplate) -- Fransic Lewis Randolph, Byron bibliographer (bookplate) -- purchased from Seven Gables Bookshop (with the accompanying volume below), New York, 28 March 1973. FIRST EDITION, Randolph's second variant with BB3 cancelled and page 97 line 11 reading "vengeance forego:". Randolph writes of the first variant that it is "doubtful... this state was ever issued." This copy also has M3 cancelled, a state not described by Randolph or Wise. With an interesting provenance: Baron Eddisbury's wife, Henrietta Maria Stanley, Lady Stanley of Alderley, was a friend of Carlyle, F. Denison Maurice and Jowett. Grolier English 68; PMM 270 (with the following); Randolph, pp.19-20; Wise Byron I, p.50. [ With :] BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Third. London: T. Davison for John Murray 1816. 8 o (211 x 132 mm). (Lacks half-title, some light spotting.) 19th-century calf gilt, marbled edges, with binder's label of T. Mullen (lightly rubbed). Provenance : Edward Westby (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, first issue, first variant, with " Lettre " on the title-page set directly under "la" and without the exclamation point at the end of line 1, page 4. Randolph, pp.59-60; Wise Byron I, p.58. [ Bound with :] BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth . London: T. Davison for John Murray 1818. 8 o . (Scattered light spotting and pale browning.) FIRST EDITION, second issue. With the following points: p.217 has two footnotes only; p.218 has five footnotes; p.226 has an 8-line footnote; and the errata list is six lines long. Randolph, pp xi (noting that the seven variant sheets can be bound up in 49 combinations); Wise Byron I, p.58 The complete Childe Harold , which "established Byron and Byronism as a temporarily national and centennially international force in the western mind" (PMM). (2)