THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON: With His letters and Journals, and His Life, by Thomas Moore, Esq. In seventeen volumes.
Totalling nearly 6,000 pages, with engraved frontispiece portrait and vignette title page with tissue guard all volumes, plus one plate with tissue guard in Volume VI, 2 folding facsimiles (Volumes VII & IX), appendices, index; f'cap. 8vo; nineteenth century green leather, lettered and decorated in gilt; edges of boards slightly rubbed, spines lightly faded; a.e.g.; ribbon markers; bookseller's sticker at head of upper pastedowns, outer hinges sometimes tender or starting, small inked scribble at foot of lower free endpaper Volume I, a few damp stains and light foxing, mainly to the plates; John Murray, London, 1832-1833. *This edition was initially intended to be in fourteen volumes, but it was extended to seventeen after 'it was suggested to the Publisher, that the time was come when the Public had a right to look for such notes and illustrations to Lord Byron's text, as are usually appended to the pages of a deceased author of established and permanent popularity' [Advertisement Volume XIII]. Several of the plates, engraved by W. Finden, are after J. M. W Turner. Item #183755
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