Illustrations of the Life and Works of Lord Byron. With original and selected information on the subjects of the engravings by W. Brockedon. (BYRON, Lord.) FINDEN, W. and E. ILLUSTRATED,TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. 8vo. (22 x 15.5 cm). Full contemporary green morocco, gilt and blind stamped fillet borders, gilt decorations surrounding a central gilt stamped device. Yellow endpapers, all edges gilt. 123 full page steel engraved plates, plus 3 engraved titles with vignettes. Bookplate of George Hansard. A superb set. Finden's attractive engraved illustrations to the works of Byron, taken after drawings and paintings by Turner, Stanfield, Weston etc., and his portraits of the Romantics after paintings in the Murrays' collection, were published in parts by John Murray in 1833-4. Here they appear with descriptive text by Brockenden in this three-volume collected edition. Included are portraits of 'Monk' Lewis, Southey, Coleridge, Clare, Murray, Caroline Lamb, along with other engravings of European and Middle-Eastern scenes associated with Byron, from Missolonghi to the Palace of Ali Pacha and the Dungeon of Chillon. Sometimes found bound in 2 Vols., this one bound in 3.