"The Works of Lord Byron in Eight Volumes." Volume 6. Published by R.W. Pomeroy, Philadelphia, 1824. Early American edition; illustrated.

Hard boards, leather [leather creases between boards and spine, boards are attached]; 4" x 6"; engraved frontispiece painted by Thomas Stothard (1755-1834), engraved by Francis Kearny; additional engraved title page engraved by G.B. Ellis after the drawing by Thomas Underwood (1772–1835).

Provenance:
"LeRoy G. Edwards" is ink written on the title page, 301 pages; some soiling and foxing, small bookworm damage at the last page [the text is not impacted: see photo]; very good condition.

This volume contains:

"The Siege of Corinth"
"The Island" [based on the Mutiny on Bounty (1789) and partly on "Mariner’s Account of the Tonga Island."

"The Lament of Tasso"
"Heaven on Earth, a Mystery"
"The Curse of Minerva"
"Ode"
Other poems [see photos]

Francis Kearney [Kearny] (1785-1837), was an American engraver and lithographer, active in Philadelphia and New York. He was born and died in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and studied under Peter Rushton Maverick.

George B. Ellis was a pupil of Francis Kearny. From 1825 to 1837, he operated a business in his own right. By 1838, however, he no longer appeared in the Philadelphia city directories.

Provenance:

"LeRoy Griffin Edwards (1804-1866), president of the Convention of 1864, was the son of Griffin Edwards and Priscilla Lee Edwards.

After teaching school in Norfolk County late in the 1820s or early in the 1830s, Edwards began working in 1835 as collector of tolls for the Dismal Swamp Canal Company. In June 1845, after the General Assembly had established free schools in Norfolk County, Edwards was elected president of the first county school board. During the 1850s he served as superintendent of public schools. In 1858 Edwards left the canal company and on July 1st of that year began a six-year term as clerk of the Norfolk County Court. He won reelection in July 1865.

On January 21, 1864 voters in the state senate district comprising Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties and the city of Portsmouth elected Edwards to represent them in a convention that met from February 13 through April 11, 1864 in Alexandria to revise the state constitution. The seventeen delegates represented thirteen counties and four cities then under United States control in the Tidewater, Eastern Shore, and northern region of the state.

On February 16, 1864 Edwards, whose three sons served in the Confederate army, defeated two other candidates to win election as president of the convention. He joined fourteen other delegates in voting on March 10th to adopt a report by the Committee on Emancipation and Education that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude (except in criminal cases) in the state, that allowed courts to apprentice black children just as they would white children, and declared that the General Assembly would not enact laws establishing slavery or recognizing human property.

The new constitution recognized the creation of West Virginia as a separate state, provided funding for primary and free schools, reduced from five to three the number of judges on the Supreme Court of Appeals, and required voting by paper ballot for state officers and members of the General Assembly."[excerpts from: John G. Deal,"LeRoy Griffin Edwards (1804–1866)," Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Library of Virginia (1998- ), published 2016.]

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