[BYRON (George Gordon Noel, Lord)]. Poetry. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1905.
REPRINT. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (15.5 x 10 x 2 cm); pp. xxxvi, 276. English text, edited and arranged by Matthew Arnold. Beautifully bound in the most attractive green morocco with red floral inlays tooled in gilt, by Ramage, signed in gilt at foot of front turn-in, covers with semé of alternating rows of three and two different floral motifs against a background of small gilt dots and stars, spine in five compartments with four raised bands, two compartments with title and author in gilt, the others with similar gilt-tooled flowers, ivory silk moiré doublures and linings, turn-ins tooled in gilt with line of small flowers and circles and large flower at corners all within roll borders, all page edges gilt, engraved title vignette. Condition: FINE. An immaculate copy with an attractive bookplate of P.H.Mumm von Schwarzenstein verso front endpaper.
Notes: A spectacular binding by this accomplished binder. John Ramage (1836-1911) went to Paris once he had completed his apprenticeship and worked for Lortic but moved back to London with his own business in 1863, producing bindings mostly in seventeenth and eighteenth century styles.
