Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted During a Residence with his Lordship at Pisa, in the Years 1821 and 1822.

MEDWIN, Thomas.

Item Number: 120506

London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1824.

A new edition of Medwin’s sensational biography of Lord Byron. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Root & Son with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon bound in, engraved frontispiece portrait of Byron and folding facsimile autograph letter signed by him. In near fine condition. Armorial bookplate to the pastedown.

"Medwin stayed at Pisa from 20 Nov. 1821 until 15 March 1822, and, after a visit to Rome, again from 18 until 28 of the following August, during which time he was constantly in Byron's society and took notes of his talk. [Published in the year of Byron's death, the present volume] excited great interest, being republished in Paris and New York, and translated into French and German before the end of the year. At home it created considerable controversy, especially over the statements made therein in regard to Lady Byron. some impugning Medwin's veracity or his recollection, others holding that Byron, with his love of half mystifying confidences, had deliberately misled him" (DNB).