Note 99 — LORD BYRON: (continued 4)
Reading edition
The sale of these books took place the following month, and they were described in the catalogue as the property of "a Nobleman about to leave England on a tour."
From a note to Mr. Murray, it would appear that he had been first announced as going to the Morea.
"I hope that the catalogue of the books, &c., has not been published without my seeing it. I must reserve several, and many ought not to be printed. The advertisement is a very bad one. I am not going to the Morea; and if I was, you might as well advertise a man in Russia as going to Yorkshire.—Ever," &c.
Together with the books was sold an article of furniture, which is now in the possession of Mr. Murray, namely, "a large screen covered with portraits of actors, pugilists, representations of boxing-matches," &c.