THE BYRON SOCIETY COLLECTION was founded in 1995 as a living collection of Byron-related books and material objects donated by various Byron Society members and other individuals who wanted their personal collections to benefit future students of Byron and English Romanticism. As such, the Byron Collection presents a material history of literary and cultural studies on Byron from the nineteenth century to the present day. Its holdings integrate the printed and autograph materials usually employed in the study of a literary figure with the decorative arts and other material objects (from busts to statues, from engravings to lithographs), all of which demonstrate the impact of Byron’s life and works on his readers, both past and present.
The Collection has already received, through donation and bequest, 5,000 books and material objects. Donors to the Byron Society Collection have given the Collection permission to sell certain duplicates (mainly secondary criticism from the twentieth century) for the purpose of raising funds to support the operating and curatorial needs of the Collection. (Buyers are reminded that the Collection retains one or more copies of the exact edition of any item offered here for sale.) This sale, at the same time, will provide books and materials to the next generation of Byronists. Contained within Catalogue 1A are over 250 items donated to the Collection by Byron collectors with varying interests. A list of donors whose items are represented here may be found below, and the catalogue specifically identifies those items from the collection of Leslie A. Marchand (some of which bear the evidence of Leslie’s notes and, occasionally, a faint hint of Marion’s smoking). We are excited to present this email follow-up to our first printed sale catalogue (it contains new materials since the publication of Catalogue One), and we hope that Byronists will find books and other items of interest for their own collections.
BYRON BOOK SALE
c/o Charles E. Robinson
English Department
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware 19716-2537
USA
E-mail: robinson@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-3654 (Charles E. Robinson)
Ordering Information:
By e-mail (preferred): Please email
robinson@udel.edu and indicate the
item number(s) and short title of the item(s) selected. An email reply
will confirm which requested items are still available and will indicate
charges for shipping and handling.
Telephone inquiries to Professor Charles E. Robinson at 302-831-3654.
Response to orders: The condition of all material has been carefully described; however, any item may be returned within two weeks of receipt for any reason. Items will be sold on a first come, first served, basis—the time logs on email and telephone voicemail will be used to determine the sequence in which orders have been received. All customers must indicate their email address and/or telephone number in order to receive confirmation of the order and the final invoice, including shipping.
Payment must include the cost of the book plus shipping costs quoted—and can be made by PayPal (preferred), a check or money order in USD (US Dollars), drawn on a USA bank ONLY and made payable to Byron Society of America and marked “For Byron Society Collection” in the “Memo” or “For” line. No payment should be initiated until the purchaser is informed of the availability of the item(s) and of the shipping costs.
Current members of the Byron Society of America may deduct 10% from the total cost of the book(s) purchased.
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With grattitude to the donors who made this catalogue possible:
Peter X. Accardo
Anahit Bekaryan
Betty T. Bennett
Mario Curelli
Réal de Mélogue
Andrew Elfenbein
Paula Feldman
Anne Fleming
Barbara T. Gates
Steven Helmling
Kenneth Henriques
Maxine Houck
In memory of James A. Houck
Peter Isaac
Marsha M. Manns
Leslie A. Marchand
Marion Marchand
Jacqueline Voignier-Marshall
Nancy Mayer
Innes V. Merabishvili
Pansy Michaels
John and Virginia Murray
Yash Nandan
Patricia A. O’Hara
William B. O’Neill
M. Byron Raizis
Donald H. Reiman
Charles E. Robinson
Marion K. Stocking
Jack Gumpert Wasserman
Timothy Webb
Future of the Collection
Collection Holdings
Catalogue of the Collection
Objects from the Collection
New Additions