[BYRON, LORD]. Les Dames de Byron; or, Portraits of the Principal Female Characters in Lord Byron's Poems. Engraved from Original Paintings by Eminent Artists. Under the Superintendence of W. & E. Finden. London: Charles Tilt, MDCCCXXXVI [1836].
FIRST EDITION; leather bound, hardcover, quarto (29 x 22 x 2.5 cm), unpaginated. English text, with 39 engraved portraits, each with a tissue guard. Handsomely bound in publisher's original full crimson morocco gilt, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Slight rubbing to extremities, the upper board with a small abrasion. Interior largely very well-preserved with some trivial foxing. An excellent copy. Scarce thus.
Notes: A striking collection of portraits by Corbaux, Stone, Meadows, Bostock, Wood, Chalon, Lewis, Wright, Boxall, Corbould, and Browne. Poems illustrated include Minor Poems, Childe Harold, Giour, Corsair, Don Juan, Lara, Hebrew Melodies, Parisina, Manfred, Lament of Tasso, Mazeppa, Prophecy of Dante, Marino Faliero, Heaven and Earth, Sardanapalus, Deformed Transformed and Cain.
