By Thomas Moore
Philadelphia   Thomas Wardle
8" by 5" [5], x-xiii, 606, [3]; [5], vi-viii, 702pp
The US first edition of Thomas Moore's insightful biography on the life and work of his friend, Lord Byron.
By Thomas Moore

1840 The Life of Lord Byron; With His Letters and Journals

Philadelphia   Thomas Wardle
8" by 5" [5], x-xiii, 606, [3]; [5], vi-viii, 702pp
The US first edition of Thomas Moore's insightful biography on the life and work of his friend, Lord Byron.
£180.00
: 2kgs / : 719P20

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First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

Complete in two volumes.

The first edition thus, being the first US edition.

A detailed and favourable biography on the life of Lord Byron, the noted and infamous Romantic poet.

Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume.

Written by Thomas Moore, a close friend of Byron. Moore was trusted with the memoirs of Byron, and was advised to burn them upon Byron's death.

Condition

In a half calf binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, generally smart. Some fading to the spine. Some marks and rubbing to the boards and spines. A little bumping to the extremities. Spots to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just a few spots. Tidemark to the first few and last few pages of Volume I. Tear to the last two leaves of Volume I, pages 607/608 and 609, with loss only to the pagination of pages 607/608, and some loss to four lines to the head of page 609.

Very Good

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