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Lord Byron's works. In four volumes. I-IV.
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First edition. Four volumes of Lord Byron's works. Complete in four volumes, as originally issued by Louis and Baudry in 1821. (This is the first Baudry publication of Byron's work). The publishers subsequently expanded this collected edition over the following years (eventually to twelve volumes by 1824), to include Byron's later works and, after his death, a memorial volume containing the first edition of Walter Scott's "Character of Lord Byron." This is a very early work to be associated with Baudry. Born in 1793, he didn't receive his brevet (permission to publish) until 1820. Baudry was one of the most significant Parisian pirate-publishers of English-language literature in the early 19th century. The present set represents the edition complete as first published, prior to that later expansion. The memoir to the beginning of volume one brushes over scandals, and writes that the Viscountess Wentworth (Lady Byron) and Byron both keep a "dignified silence" over their separation, and that Byron, in "voluntary exile" on the continent, is continuing to write, having recently completed the third and fourth cantos of Childe Harold which "lightens to gloom of the heart-broken exile." Apparently a fifth volume was published by Louis and Baudry shortly after this set. Baudry then continued to print further volumes alone. The works present here are: Volume one: The Bride of Abydos; The Corsair; Lara; Parisina. Volume two: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; Don Juan; The Giaour. Volume three: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; Beppo; Fare thee well etc. Volume four: The siege of Corinth; Manfred; Mazeppa; The Prisoner of Chillon; The Lament of Tasso; Various Poems. Collation: xii, 216. 240, 224, 232. pages. All half titles etc. present. 17cm x 10cm. Condition: The volumes are bound in a uniform contemporary half calf with marbled boards and leather labels with titles to spine. Volume number in gilt to spine. There is moderate rubbing to the boards and spine edges. There is loss to the head of each volume, from minor chipping up to two centimetres. The bindings are sound, but boards are just starting to become loose. Ownership signature (Martha Boyse?) has been crossed out to the end papers in a couple of the volumes. Text is sound, but with mild to moderate foxing to the pages Worst to the first few pages of each volume. Overall though, still a reasonable copy of a scarce set (or part set!). .
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