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Byron.- Flyer for Harrow Public Speeches, featuring a teenage Lord Byron and Sir Robert Peel, July
Byron.- Flyer for Harrow Public Speeches, featuring a teenage Lord Byron and Sir Robert Peel, July
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Byron.- Flyer for Harrow Public Speeches, folds, portion of light toning to head, some spotting and light soiling, framed and glazed, c.252 x 203mm., frame 280 x 230mm., July 5, 1804; and an engraved portrait of Byron tipped-in to card window mount, 4to & large 8vo (2)*** Featuring a teenage Lord Byron in the part of King Latinus from Virgil's Aeneid, accompanied by future Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel as Turnus, and Leeke, an unknown contemporary, as Drances. Also participating in the Speeches is future politician Sir Thomas Acland as "The Boil'd Pig". Byron entered Harrow at the age of thirteen in 1801, remaining there until July 1805. He participated in three Speech Day declamations, this being a record of his first, the others on the 6th June & 4th July 1805. A rare survival, we can trace no copies at auction.
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Byron.- Flyer for Harrow Public Speeches, featuring a teenage Lord Byron and Sir Robert Peel, July

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Max Hasler
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