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hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good Jacket. 1953 printing Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. The Letters of Lord Byron. Mark to front cloth. Browning to spine. Rolled spine. Pink cloth with gilt lettering. Byron's fame as a poet, in the last hundred years, has been less disputed on the Continent than in England; but his reputation as a letter-writer now solidly established in his own country, has scarcely so far crossed the Channel, and this is to be regretted. For the reader whose knowledge of Byron is confined to his poetry has an incomplete and false picture of the man. 394 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .

Condizione: Very Good. 8vo. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. xxiv + 456 pp. Title page in red and black. Bound in original blue green cloth, gilt, with gilt block on front board. A little wear to extremities and occasional scattered foxing; otherwise a very good copy, Illustrated by 16 black and white plate, including portrait frontispiece and facsimile. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Facsimile signature on front pastedown. Includes letters written by and to Samuel Pepys, 1656-1703 and his Second Diary, 1683-84, featuring the visit to Tangier. Edited by Robert Guy Howarth (1906-74). Australian literary scholar, who held academic posts at Sydney University and later at the University of Cape Town. LETTERS DIARIES CORRESPONDENCE DIARIES HISTORY 17TH CENTURY 18TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED LETTERS.