The Complete Works. Including His Suppressed Poems, and Others Never Before Published; [together with] -- Letters and Journals of Lord Byron With Notices of his Life, by Thomas Moore.

BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord.

Published by Paris: Baudry's Foreign Library [& 5 others in Paris], 1832-33

About this Item

An early continental edition of Byron's collected poetry, bound uniformly with two biographical volumes edited by his friend Thomas Moore. Both works were published by the notable Parisian publisher of pirated English-language works, Louis-Claude Baudry (1793-1853). Baudry's Foreign Library preceded by decades the Tauchnitz editions of English books sold on the continent from 1841. As multiple agents held the British copyright for different Byron poems, contemporary authorized editions of his collected works were often found less complete than their continental counterparts. European publishers "who were not bound by British intellectual property laws were soon producing attractive multi-volume editions which were not only cheaper but textually more complete than anything available at home" (St Clair, p. 294). As such, they were often purchased by British individuals, book clubs, and circulating libraries. William St Clair, The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, 2004. Two works in 6 vols, octavo (210 x 127 mm). Engraved portrait frontispieces in the first vol. of both works, other vols bound without frontispieces, as usual. Contemporary brown morocco, spines with raised bands lettered in gilt, compartments elaborately decorated in gilt, triple gilt fillet to boards, gilt inner dentelles, cream coated endpapers, gilt edges, red bookmarkers. Bindings well-preserved with minor corner wear and faint marks to boards, contents foxed and occasionally toned. A very good set.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Works. Including His Suppressed Poems, and Others Never Before Published; [together with] -- Letters and Journals of Lord Byron With Notices of his Life, by Thomas Moore.
• Publisher: Paris: Baudry's Foreign Library [& 5 others in Paris], 1832-33