Byron's Letters and Journals Volumes 1 - 12 Complete Set de Lord Byron; Leslie A. Marchand (editor) - 1982-01-01

Belknap Press of Harvard, 1982-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Price-clipped jackets have minor wear, several have a small amoutn of white spotting (paint) bottom edges of the books also have some white paint stuck on them, Volume 7 is missing its jacket. The books have various dates of printing spanning 1973-1982, a couple specify second printing (vol. 1, and 2). Bindings are tight, all internally clean. George Gordon Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition of all Byron’s known letters supersedes Prothero’s incomplete edition at the turn of the century. It includes a considerable number of hitherto unpublished letters and the complete text of many that were bowdlerized by former editors for a variety of reasons. Prothero’s edition included 1,198 letters. This edition has more than 3,000, over 80 percent of them transcribed entirely from the original manuscripts.