BYRON, [George Gordon Noel], Lord, and Thomas MOORE, biographer.
The Works of Lord Byron, with his Letters and Journals, and his Life … in fourteen Volumes [– in seventeen Volumes].
London, [A. & R. Spottiswoode for] John Murray, 1832 [– 1833; – 1837].
Seventeen vols, small 8vo, each volume with engraved title and frontispiece, with one plate (vol. VI) and 2 folding autograph facsimiles (vols VII and VIII); with half-titles, except vols I and IX (as usual); bound in uniform early twentieth-century half green straight-grained morocco with cloth sides by Hatchards, spines gilt, top-edges gilt, others trimmed, marbled endpapers, vols XVI and XVII misnumbered; spines lightly sunned, very slightly rubbed at extremities, but an excellent set; ink inscription ‘W.G.’ to vol. VI half-title.
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The Works of Lord Byron, with his Letters and Journals, and his Life … in fourteen Volumes [– in seventeen Volumes].
A handsome set, attractively bound in Art Deco green morocco, of the collected works of Lord Byron, accompanied by Moore’s life of the poet.
Byron’s friend and literary executor, Thomas Moore published Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of his Life in two quarto volumes in 1830. It here joins Byron’s collected works to form ‘the great early edition of the prose and poetry … which dominated Byron studies for more than fifty years, [and] provoked and underwrote a series of key scholarly works’ (ODNB).
The Works were initially advertised as a fourteen-volume set, as here designated on the titles of vols I–VII and IX–XII, all dated 1832; during publication it was expanded to seventeen, completed in 1833. Vol. VIII is here present in a later state, with a title dated 1837 and acknowledging the seventeen volumes.
