Second wife (1813-1881) of Millard Fillmore, who married the former president five years after he left office. Signed book set: The Works of the Rt. Hon. Lord Byron, Vol. 1-8. NY: William Borradale, 1825. Hardcovers bound in full morocco, 3 x 5.25, totaling 2,680 pages. Signed on an opening page of each volume in ink, "Caroline C. McIntosh." This set reproduces the entire oeuvre of Lord Byron, ranging from epic poems like Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan, to individual poems from the Hebrew Melodies. Each volume contains a frontispiece engraving illustrating one of his works. Autographic condition: fine. Book conditions: VG/None, with repairs to detached covers to Volumes III and VIII, scattered foxing, various inventory notations, and isolated closed tears and loss to corners and edges. Deaccessioned from the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Library, the institution founded by Millard and Abigail Fillmore.
Below is a detailed description of where Caroline C. Fillmore's signature appears in each volume:
Volume I. Signed as "Caroline C. McIntosh" on p. 9, the first page of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Volume II. Signed as "Caroline C. McIntosh" on p. 11, the first page of The Corsair
Volume III. Signed as "Caroline C. McIntosh" on p. 13, the first page of "Marino Faliero"
Volume IV. Signed as "Caroline C. McIntosh" on p. vii, the preface page of "The Mystery of Cain"
Volume V. Signed as "Caroline C. McIntosh" on the title page facing a frontispiece engraving from The Corsair
Volume VI. Signed as "Caroline C. McIntosh" on p. 7, the first page of "The Siege of Corinth"
Volume VII. Signed as "Caroline C. McIntosh" on p. 5, the first page of Don Juan, Canto I
Volume VIII. Signed as "Caroline C. McIntosh" on p. 3, the first page of Don Juan, Canto VII
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