The Last Days of Lord Byron: With His Lordship’s Opinions on Various Subjects, Particularly on the State and Prospects of Greece.
PARRY, William. [Lord Byron].
The Last Days of Lord Byron: With His Lordship’s Opinions on Various Subjects, Particularly on the State and Prospects of Greece.
First edition of William Parry's The Last Days of Byron
London: Printed for Knight and Lacey, 1825.
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First edition of Parry’s tribute to the late Lord Byron. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, watered silk doublures and endleaves, top edge gilt, illustrated with four engraved aquatint plates including frontispiece. Rare. From the library of bibliophile and binder George Albert Zabriskie with his bookplate to the pastedown. Zabriskie
Parry's solemn tribute to his close friend, the late Lord Byron, focuses on the Romantic poet and politician's involvement in the mid-19th century movement for Greek independence. Upon his death in 1824 at the age of 36, the Greeks mourned Lord Byron deeply, and he became a hero. In 1969, 145 years after Byron's death, a memorial to him was finally placed in Westminster Abbey.
