The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Complete in One Volume.

LORD BYRON. [BYRON, George Gordon].

Item Number: 141438

London: John Murray, 1846.

Finely bound 19th century printing of the complete poetical works of Lord Byron. Octavo, bound in full polished calf, gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, illustrated. In very good condition.

"Byron is to a far greater degree than the other romanticists the poet of humankind. He conveys with tremendous power the majesty and desolation of history, the vanity of pomp and pride, the transitoriness of fame. And he is the poet of contemporary society, keen to discern the false and the corrupt, courageous in denunciation yet with pity for the young and innocent… As a poet he mirrored brilliantly and without distortion an absorbingly interesting world" (Baugh, 1229).