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Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) | First Editions
1788 - 1824
George Gordon Byron (later Noel), 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as 'Lord Byron', was an English poet, and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He produced a wealth of works, from the sexual, to the mystical, to the apocalyptic. Among his best-known pieces are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty".
Byron is regarded as one of the greatest British poets of all time, and remains widely read and influential - particularly in the West, where he is considered canon. Throughout his lifetime, Byron travelled widley across Europe, and lived in Italy for seven years. He became a national hero in Greece after joining the Greek War of Independence in fighting the Ottoman Empire.
Often considered the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantic figures, Byron was both celebrated and castigated in his lifetime. His raw sexuality, aristocratic excesses, hedonistic nature, and numerous love affairs (with both men and women), as well as rumours of a scandalous relationship with his half-sister sent Byron into self-imposed exile.
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Poetry of Byron.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. [Poetry Selection] FINELY BOUND, third impression thus. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.xxxvi; 276. With a vignette title page. Contemporary green full calf by BUMPUS of London, with titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Spotting to preliminaries. Light rubbing to binding; spine..... More
Hebrew Melodies.
London: John Murray, 1815. [Romantic Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 53 [1]. Recently re-backed in tan calf with raised bands and gilt titles to black label; incorporating contemporary tan calf boards by W. Nutt, marbled endpapers and edges. Bound without the advertisement and without the half title..... More
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Collected and arranged with notes by Sir Walter Scott, Lord Jeffrey, Professor Wilson, Thomas Moore, William Gifford, Rev. George Crabbe, Bishop Heber, J.G. Lockhart, Lord Broughton, Thomas Campbell. New and Complete Edition.
London: John Murray, 1883. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xii; 827 [3]. With 12 engraved plates, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, as well as two facsimile plates showing Byron's handwriting. Contemporary red full morocco for Henry Sotheran, with raised bands and gilt..... More
The Works of Lord Byron. With His Letters and Journals, and his Life, by Thomas Moore.
London: John Murray, 1835. [Verse] FINELY BOUND. 18 volumes, being the poetry complete in 17 volumes, with Galt's Life of Byron (First Edition) as the 18th volume. Octavo (17 x 11 x 45cm). Engraved frontispiece and engraved title page to every volume. Finely bound by Kaufmann for booksellers Estes and..... More
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