CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE, A Romaunt.
New York: Harrison of Paris (Minton, Balch and Company), (1931).
No. IX of 35 copies on Maillol hand-made paper, signed by Francis Cyril Rose (20 copies for America). Total edition 715. Quarto. (xvi), 17-236p, cul-de-lamp, colophon. Designed by Monroe Wheeler. Illustrated by Sir Francis Cyril Rose with 28 wash drawings reproduced in collotype's of various monotone colors. Bound by G. Husar, Paris in half dark blue morocco over light blue textured paper, t.e.g. Quite fine in morocco-lined blue paper board slipcase with slight rubbing. Item #24224
"Assuming that prospective readers of Byron had often been intimidated by the learned notes found in many collections of the author's work, [Wheeler and Westcott] decided to discard the 'brackets and asterisks' and the 'unsightly storehouse of fine print,' the dense commentaries, and retain only Byron's notes, which would be conveniently located as close as possible to the passages they explained or supplemented.... The result, they promised, would be a 'clear view, a legible revelation of Byron's dual intellect; the humane, casual, supremely sincere commentator in one column, the haughty and sumptuously gifted rhapsodist in the other.'" (Published in Paris. pp 336-337.).
Price: $1,750.00