Annotations.
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Printed pages of ‘Fugitive Pieces’, ‘Poems on Various Occasions’, 'Hours of Idleness' and ‘Poems, Original and Translated’, by Lord Byron, with notes, revisions and additions by Henry Buxton Forman., 1884-1896.
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Identifier: MS.43399
Scope and Contents
The pages here are of poems contained in the first four publications of Lord Byron. They have been heavily annotated by Henry Buxton Forman.Henry Buxton Forman was a well-known bibliographer and, it was later discovered, forger. He and John Murray [III] had agreed that he would work on a new edition of the works of Byron for Murray in the 1884. This never came to fruition, but the proofs here are the result of the start of that work and was sent to John Murray [IV] in 1896....
Dates:
1884-1896.