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LORD BYRON : Byron's Letters and Journals. Edited by Leslie A.Marchand. Complete in twelve volumes

John Murray, London 1973-1982

First Editions (first printings). 8vo. Uniform red cloth, lettered in gold at the spines and upper boards, with the top edges stained red (and fractionally faded in places). Colour or monochrome frontispiece to each volume. Neat embossed or inkstamped initials of a former owner to the base of the front endpaper of five volumes. A virtually fine set in non-price-clipped dust wrappers, two of which exhibit a light but lengthy crease to the spine panel, and one some further creasing to the head of the spine panel. An excellent first printing set of the first unbowdlerized collected edition of all of Byron's known letters, including over twice as many as the Rowland Prothero turn-of-the-century edition. The first eleven volumes covering the period 1798-1824, with the twelfth volume providing an anthology of memorable passages and a general and subject index for the whole. Lacking the uncommon supplementary volume published somewhat later in 1994 detailing recently unearthed material. The full twelve volumes as follows: Volume 1 - 'In My Hot Youth 1798-1810'; Volume 2 - 'Famous in my Time 1810-1812'; Volume 3 'Alas! The Love of Women 1813-1814'; Volume 4 'Wedlock's the Devil 1814-1815'; Volume 5 - 'So Late into the Night 1816-1817'; Volume 6 - 'The Flesh is Frail 1818-1819'; Volume 7 'Between Two Worlds 1820'; Volume 8 'Born for Opposition 1821'; Volume 9 'In the Wind's Eye 1821-1822', Volume 10 'A Heart for Every Fate 1822-1923'; Volume 11 'For Freedom's Battle 1823-1824'; and Volume 12 'The Trouble of an Index'.. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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