Poems by Lord Byron with Illustrations

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A hardback book titled, Poems by Lord Byron with Illustrations, by Byron and published by George Routledge and Sons. It is a cloth bound hardcover book with a sewn binding and gilded page edges. The green front cover of the embossed volume features a large, ornate, gold leaf rectangular box at the center. The shortened title is printed at the top of the box in black text that reads [BYRON] and [ILLUSTRATED] is printed in smaller, green relief text at the bottom. Between, is a panel of scrolled arabesque leaves and three five petal flowers. Above the box is an illustration of a gold leaf lyre. There is an illustration of a gold leaf flower with leafy stems in a black vase at the bottom of the box. The box is framed by black embossed bands of geometric shapes and vines. At the top of the spine is a gold leaf five-pointed star.

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