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Reprint. Hard cover, in two volumes complete, 8vo, bound in three-quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards, with matching marbled text block edges and marbled end papers. The spine with four raised bands with neoclassical gilt decoration to the compartments, gilt roping along bands, onlaid black title labels to the second and fourth compartments. Illustrated with black and white line art, including frontispiece portrait of the Poet at beginning of Vol. 1. **CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Board surfaces are very clean and unmarked, with no edge wear seen. Very minor, superficial wear to tips and top inch only of the joint of the first volume. Hinges are all in order. A manufacturing problem has left title page of Vol. I (only) with some buckling seen near the head of the gutter. Otherwise, this item has only gentle age toning, no writing, no underlining and remains firmly bound and very attractive. Vol. 1: [2], iv, 366, [2]pp. Vol. 2: [2], 367-800 [2]pp. The Publisher's Preface highlights the inclusion in this edition of works such as "Don Juan," and "Childe Harold" and other items he claims were routinely omitted from competitor's editions. Notes accompany each poem or drama, giving historical and literary context. Volume I contains the shorter verse works as well as 1812's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," the so-called, Turkish tales, "The Giaour" (1813), and "The Bride of Abydos" (1813), his first really successful dramatic poem, "The Corsair," (1814), "Lara," "The Siege of Corinth" (1816), "Beppo, A Venetian Story," (1817). "The Island" (1823),said to be based partly on Bligh's Mutiny on the Bounty, and finally, "The Lament of Tasso" and "The Prophecy of Dante" (1821). Vol. 2 includes the dramatic works and poems, : "The Morgante Maggiore"(1822), "Francesca of Rimini" (1820-30), "Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice" (1820), "Sardanapalus: a Tragedy" (1821), "The Two Foscari, (1821), "Cain: a Mystery," (1821), "Heaven and Earth, A Mystery" (1821), "Werner; or The Inheritance" (1822), "The Deformed Transformed" (1824) and "Don Juan" (1819).** LORD BYRON (1788 - 1824), one of the preeminent Romantic poets, famously lived abroad in Italy and Greece in latter years, with the result that a good number of his works after 1819 have classical or Mediterranean subject matter. He died in Missolonghi while actively supporting the cause of Greek Independence. (Please see our No. 9678 for P. Gamba's "A Narrative of Lord Byron's Last Journey to Greece," for more on his later years and these political activities.) A handsome set. OCLC 4789519. (AMJ)
Ref: POEMEW 9725
$125.00