BYRON IN ITALY

First edition, first printing. Original peach cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Barnett Freedman illustrated dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the spine tips and board corners a little bumped, with a tiny black stain to the upper board. The contents, with light spotting to the text block edges and faint offsetting to the free endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked original dustwrapper which has a short closed tear to the top of the front spine fold which has been repaired with a piece of tape to the underside, a very small chip to the head of the spine, a small hole to the front panel corresponding with the small stain to the cloth, and a little fading to the spine. Not price clipped (12s. 6d. to the bottom of the front flap). An excellent example, scarce in the dustwrapper.