1830 Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life

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First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

The first edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. Illustrated with a frontispiece to Volume II. A collection of the letters and journals written by Lord Byron. Lord Byron has become one of the most famous figures in British history, notorious for his flamboyant and controversial life. He allegedly had an affair with his half sister, fathering a daughter by her. His only legitimate child, Ada Lovelace, was the first computer programmer. Byron ran into a lot of debt in his life, escaping to the East and Europe whenever this happened. He also has a number of high-profiled affairs, including the Lady Caroline Lamb, who was married to Queen Victoria's future first Prime Minister, William Lamb. His wife's separation from him in 1816 was a scandal, and was widely gossiped and written about. Byron was also present at the birth of Mary Shelley's famous horror story 'Frankenstein', in Switzerland. With a short note on the life of Byron by Thomas Moore. Moore was an Irish poet who was the literary executor for Lord Byron, thus burning Lord Byron's memoir after his death. Institutional stamps to the front endpaper, title page, dedication page of Volume I, and to the front endpaper, reverse of the frontispiece, and title page of Volume II.