A Cotemporary [sic] Narrative of Events Connected with the Separation of Lord and Lady Byron de (Byroniana) [Hobhouse, John Cam], Lord Broughton - 1870

Scribners, NY, 1909, 8vos., cloth, 348,383pp., foxed, G+ $

Philadelphia: M. Thomas, 1816. First American edn. 8vo, pp. vii, 348, cxix (appendix in the original French). Leather. Ex library with bookplate. . Cover worn, front detached. Little foxing here and there. Title little torn at edges, but not into text. Interior solid. S&S 39029. Hobhouse was a British administrator and liberal pamphleteer. From personal observation wrote an account of the Hundred Days (1816).

LONDON, JOHN MURRAY, 1910. REPRINTS. TWO VOLUMES, WITH PORTRAITS. EDITED BY HIS DAUGHTER , LADY DORCHESTER. VOLUME 1: 1786-1816. VOLUME 2: 1816-1822. BOTH COPIES IN DARK BLUE CLOTH, FINGERING TO THE TOPS OF THE SPINES AND SOME LOSS.

Italy, 1825. Hardcover. Good. Italy: n.p., 1825. 8vo (220 x 140mm). 186pp. Signatures: [1]-11(8), 12(6). 19th century three-quarter vellum over marbled boards, spine with morocco lettering label, “HOBHOUSE SAGGIO DELLA LETT ITA,” edges speckled blue; (some light foxing or marginal dampstaining throughout, corners slightly bumped light edgewear; good copy). This is the original Italian edition, translated from English by Mario Pegna, of the Essay on the Present Literature of Italy; a classic but controversial work which epitomized the ardent interest of British Romantic writers in Italian literature. John Hobhouse, Lord Broughton, was a British baronet and diarist operating within the circle of Lord Byron in the early nineteenth century. Both Byron and Hobhouse, recognized peers in British society and Romantic Movement writers, made many trips to the Italian peninsula, subsequently publishing their reflections in collaborative works. The Essay on the Present Literature of Italy began as a… Leer más