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Mad, bad and dangerous to know. This was Lady Caroline Lamb's opinion on meeting Byron. It didn't put her off. In fact it was Bryon who terminated their relationship six months later as he couldn't cope with her. It takes one to know one as they say. Byron's childhood had been marred by his father's cavalier attitude to money which was the only thing Byron inherited from him at his death when Byron was only three. More happily Byron was left Newstead Abbey by his great uncle the 'wicked Lord Byron'. Newstead was however in a state of (romantic) disrepair. With Childe Harold in 1812 he found early and lasting fame. Then notoriety with his relationship with his half sister. An enforced spell on the continent followed and finally the tragic but heroic fight in Greece where he is still a national hero. In between he wrote some of the finest romantic poetry ever penned.
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1957 Byron's Don JuanAustin, Texas: 1957This scarce first edition, first impression four volume variorum of Lord Byron's epic nineteenth-century poem Don Juan, with facsimile reproductions of Byron's manuscripts accompanying the text.
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1864 The Termination of the Sixteenth Canto of Lord Byron's Don JuanLondon: 1864A very scarce, first edition of Harry Wetton's notes regarding the sixteenth canto of Lord Byron's epic poem, 'Don Juan'.
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1824 Recollections of the Life of Lord ByronLondon: 1824A smart first edition of R. C. Dallas's biography of the final years of the life of George Gordon, Lord Byron.
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1833 3vol Letters and Journals of Lord Byron Thomas Moore Illustrated 3rdLondon: 1833The third edition of the collection of Lord Byron's letters and journals, edited by Thomas Moore, illustrated throughout.
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1824 Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron First EditionLondon: 1824An attractive edition of this bibliographical works of the poet Lord Byron.