Byron's letters and journals : the complete and unexpurgated text of all the letters available in manuscript and the full printed version of all others / edited by Leslie A. Marchand [including the supplement, complete in thirteen volumes]

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron (1788-1824) ; Marchand, Leslie A. (1900-1999) (editor)

1973, First Edition. London : John Murray. Fine cloth copies all in near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrappers. Some price-clipped. This set includes the scarce supplement. Remains a remarkably well-preserved collection overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #459784

Physical description: complete in 13 volumes : portraits ; 23 cm. Notes: Volumes 7-9 include original text and English translations of letters written in Italian. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: v. 1. 1798-1810: 'In my hot youth' -- v. 2. 1810-1812: 'Famous in my time' -- v. 3. 1813-1814: 'Alas! the love of women!' -- v. 4. 1814-1815: 'Wedlock's the devil' -- v. 5. 1816-1817: 'So late into the night' -- v. 6. 1818-1819: 'The flesh is frail' -- v. 7. 1820: 'Between two worlds' -- v. 8. 1821: 'Born for opposition' -- v. 9. 1821-1822: 'In the wind's eye' -- v. 10. 1822-1823: 'A heart for every fate' -- v. 11. 1823-1824: 'For freedom's battle' -- v. 12. The trouble of an index : anthology of memorable passages and index to the eleven volumes -- Suppl. vol. What comes uppermost. Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Correspondence. Poets, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence. Authors, English -- 19th century -- Diaries. Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography -- Sources. Romanticism -- England -- Sources. English letters -- 19th century. Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Sources.

Price: €595.00