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Edité par Armand AubreÌ e, Paris, 1830
Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Not stated (illustrateur). Two volumes from the complete works of Lord Byron. Published in French, each with frontispiece. Volumes three and ten from a French edition of the Complete Works of Byron. Published in French, each with frontispiece. Alongside a memoir of Byron by the Irish poet Thomas Moore, this collection contains a translation of one of Byron's best-known works; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Originally published between 1812 and 1818, the the lengthy narrative poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who is disillusioned with a life of pleasure and looks for distraction in a foreign land. The four part poem is often viewed as an expression of melancholy and disappointment felt by a generation tired of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. Rebound in a green quarter cloth binding over blue patterned boards. Externally, generally smart. Lightly rubbed to the boards and extremities, with a small chip in the paper to the front extremity of volume 10. A little rubbed to the spine, with some light bumping to the tail, with a tiny chip in the cloth to the head of the spine to volume 10. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with and generally clean with patches of light scattered foxing. Very Good. book.