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AB117579, Hobhouse John; (Lord Byron), Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold: Containing Dissertations on The Ruins of Rome; and an Essay on Italian Literature., London, 1818, John Murray, Second Edition Revised and Corrected, Full Calf, Very Good, 8vo, viii, 576pp. A.e.g. Apart from heavy gilt decorative scroll-work on inner dentelles, sympathetically re-backed spine titling & a few lines of gilt at fore edges of boards all decorations to spine & boards are in blind. Beginnings of cracks at head (2cm.) & tail (3cm.) of front outer hinge. Tail fore corner of front board bumped with minute affect to the tip of the text-block. Edges rubbed with very light wear.
