Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington.
Margaret Power, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849)
Category
Books
Date
1834
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3169469
Summary
Bibliographic description
iv, 412 p. : front. (port.) ; 8vo. With added half title for the set: Lord Byron / XXVIII. Lacks final advertisement leaf. Pencil text marking, with final endpaper annotation and page references in hand of Harold Nicolson. Provenance: nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: John Adolphus Esqre. [likely to be John Adolphus (1768-1845), historian]; over the latter plate, small round nineteenth-century book label, with cherub holding gold plaque: John Murray, Newstead, Wimbledon Park [i.e. John [iii] Murray] (1808–1892)]. Binding: uniform with with other volumes in the set, nineteenth-century full calf; gilt fillet border; gilt tooled spine; spine labels missing: Byron / 28 / Conversations.
Makers and roles
Margaret Power, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849)