Byron.

MAUROIS, Andre; Translated by Hamish Miles.

Item Number: 2537

New York: D. Appleton, 1930.

First edition. Finely bound in three quarters morocco, gilt tooling to the spine. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece of Lord Byron. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities.

"Byron is to a far greater degree than the other romanticists the poet of humankind. He conveys with tremendous power the majesty and desolation of history, the vanity of pomp and pride, the transitoriness of fame. And he is the poet of contemporary society, keen to discern the false and the corrupt, courageous in denunciation yet with pity for the young and innocent… As a poet he mirrored brilliantly and without distortion an absorbingly interesting world" (Baugh, 1229).