8vo. x, 924pp. With a half-title. Finely bound by Mudie in contemporary dark brown morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, gilt initials 'B.E.C. ' to upper board, A.E.G., marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Contemporary inked gift inscription addressed to Blanche E. Cheekley, from M Darnell, and dated October 1903, to front blank fly-leaf. Internally clean and crisp.

A handsomely bound Oxford edition of the collected works of Lord Byron, including his complete lyric poetry, the four cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818), a selection of tales, among them The Corsair (1814), and concluding with his dramas, most notably the gothic closet drama Manfred (1816-17).