15V Thomas Moore THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON WITH HIS LETTERS AND JOURNALS AND HIS LIFE 1832-1833 Decorative Binding Gilt Engraved Tissue-Guarded Frontispiece Faux-Title Page Romantic Movement Poet Writer

Title: The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life
Author: Thomas Moore - Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer." He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. In his lifetime he was often referred to as Anacreon Moore. [Courtesy Wikipedia]
Publisher: John Murray
City: London
Year: 1832-1833
Binding Style: Hardcover
Number of Volumes: 15 Full Set: No
Width: 4.5" Height: 7"
Book Details: This fifteen-volume set is an incomplete set of the larger seventeen-volume set. The volumes are bound in moiré-patterned green cloth with gilt spine lettering and ornament. Each volume is adorned with an engraved frontispiece and faux-title page. The set was originally planned to be 14 volumes but was later expanded to 17. Biographical volumes as well as published works are present.

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.

Often described as the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics, Byron was both celebrated and castigated in his life for his aristocratic excesses, which included huge debts, numerous love affairs with both men and women, as well as rumors of a scandalous liaison with his half-sister. One of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, summed him up in the famous phrase "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". His only legitimate child, Ada Lovelace, is regarded as the first computer programmer based on her notes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.
Condition / Notes: This antique set shows well with some typical indications of age and wear, including shelfwear and rubbing. Bindings and text blocks are sound. Text is clear and crisp through mild age toning and occasional foxing, particularly to the faux-title and frontispiece pages. Volume four has a partially separated spine cover. Volumes I and VII are lacking.

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