THE POETICAL WORKS OF LORD BYRON 1854 LEATHER BINDING

[BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron]. The Poetical Works. Collected and Arranged, with Notes and Illustrations. London: John Murray, 1854.

Collective edition. Complete in one volume. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Tall octavo (240 x 160 x 50 mm.). Pp. viii, 827. English text printed in double columns. Bound in contemporary full tan calf; spine gilt with morocco lettering-piece in second compartment; gilt borders to boards; marbled page edges and endpapers; portrait frontispiece and engraved title; facsimiles of Byron's handwriting; printed footnotes; rear appendix and index. Printed by Spottiswoode and Shaw, London. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of the C. R. Atherton to front pastedown - also inscribed to fep. Condition: FAIR to GOOD. Binding secure. Covers somewhat rubbed to spine, joints and extremities, with some marking to boards. Interior largely clean with just a touch of foxing to endpaper.

Note: George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was a British nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage as well as the short lyric poem "She Walks in Beauty". He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years in the cities of Venice, Ravenna and Pisa. During his stay in Italy he frequently visited his friend and fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Later in life Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died in 1824 at the age of 36 from a fever contracted in Missolonghi.