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Countess Guiccioli's Recollections of Lord Byron
Countess Guiccioli's Recollections of Lord Byron
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Author: Guiccioli, Countess
Title: My Recollections of Lord Byron; and Those of Eye-Witnesses of His Life
Place Published: London
Publisher:Richard Bentley
Date Published: 1869
Description:


2 volumes. x, 459; vi, 453, [1] pp. With color portrait frontispiece of the author. (8vo), 22x14 cm (8½x5½"), period three quarter blue morocco and cloth, gilt decorated spines with raised bands.



With an original 3 page signed letter by the Countess Guiccioli tipped into the front of vol. 1. A few other pieces of related ephemera are tipped in or pasted at the front of the volume as well. With the decorative bookplates of John Francis Neylan, and William and Myrna Pollak.


Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli was the married lover of Lord Byron while he was living in Ravenna, Italy, and writing the first five cantos of Don Juan. Alexandre Dumas included her as a minor character in his novel The Count on Monte Cristo using the disguised name "Countess G-" Lord Byron also used this shortened name in his journals.

Condition
Some sunning to spines, rubbing to extremities; a few minor tears and one small area of loss to tipped in letter; interiors sound with a bit of toning; very good.
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