BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord.

£2,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. First Rose edition, extra limited issue, letter C of five copies only on imperial japan vellum signed by the illustrator, each containing four original colour drawings by the surrealist artist Sir Francis Cyril Rose, from a limited edition of 725. Rose (1909-1979) was vigorously championed by Gertrude Stein, who famously said of him "Rose is a rose is a rose". His wife Frederica, Lady Rose (1910-2002), became a well known travel writer, notably on Corsica, under the name of Dorothy Carrington. Rose was, however, a noted homosexual and their marriage ended by a divorce in 1966.

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