Book from the Firs library

Above is the binding of the "Albion" edition of Byron's Poetical Works and a copy of the inside front page on which is written in ink : -

"William Hardy, Oct 16th 1887" and underneath
"Ethel Whitehouse Trease, Kimberley, 1894"

On the back cover is a label "James Bell, Printer Bookseller & Binder, Calton St., Nottingham".

Inside the front cover is the price "6/6 net" in pencil and, next to it, in different pencil "Page 81".
(Page 81 has four poems including "The Destruction of Senacherib" which contains the verse "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, .. etc." )

On page 209, verse CLXXVIII of the poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" is marked with squiggly line in pencil. This verse reads "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is a society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, .. Etc. "

It seems likely that the pencilled bits are by Ethel as she loved painting tranquil nature scenes in water colours and was obviously liked Byron enough to claim ownership of the book.