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The WORKS OF LORD BYRON!! With Explanatory Notes and a Life of the Author, by Thomas Moore. Complete in one-volume.
Printed in 1867!! This book is well Over 125 YEARS OLD!!
Illustrated, with numerous FINE STEEL ENGRAVINGS; embracing the principal female characters, landscape and historical subjects.
Bound in high-quality leather. Raised hubs on spine. Marbled edges. This is a large, heavy book at 11 1/4 inches tall, and very thick! 740 pages. Early thick royal quarto edition of Byron's Collected works. Complete in one Volume, as stated on title page. Johnson, Fry & Company, New York. 1867.
Good condition. VERY GOOD interior. Hinge rubbing/wear, as shown. Some general rubbing. Some pages overextended, some loose tissue paper with edge wear. Blind-stamp (no ink) on title page. Shows foxing and tide marks. Leather bookplate on cover. No mustiness.
Includes a frontis protected by tissue, a preface and a biography of Lord Byron. Beautiful, detailed engravings and wide margins. A fantastic edition of Byron's works with very impressive full-page engraved plates.
During his lifetime, Byron was the most internationally famous poet England had produced, and long after his death continued to be one of the most influential, widely imitated, and widely reviled personalities of his age.
Byron's notability rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured aristocratic excesses, huge debts, numerous love affairs, and self-imposed exile. He was famously described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad and dangerous to know". He travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died from a fever contracted while in Messolonghi in Greece.
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