This book is titled "The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, Complete In One Volume", it was published by John Murray in 1847 and printed by Spottiswoode and Shaw at New-street-Square in London. The book is 3/4 bound, with five raised bands, six compartments with horizontal bands in gilt and gilt lettering on the spine, and it is dated "1846" in gilt at the bottom of the spine, but the title page is dated 1847. There are marbled boards, marbled endpapers with the armorial bookplate of [E.] Effingham, "Howard 1886" is inscribed at the top of the front blank flyleaf, "Dartmouth Bookstall" is printed in small letters at the bottom of the next blank flyleaf, Lord Byron's portrait is engraved on the frontispiece - he was only 19 in the portrait - then a vignette title page labelled "Byron's Works, Complete in One Volume" at the top, Byron's estate "Newstead Abbey" is pictured below the title and dated 1846 at the bottom, and the owners name "Charlotte Howard" is at the top of the vignette title page, then the regular title page, which is dated 1847 and mentions that the book was collected and arranged with the help of authors like Thomas Moore, Sir Walter Scott, and others, one leaf of books printed by Spottiswoode and Shaw, a page dedicated to Robert Peel (a British politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), four pages of Contents, two pages of a Chronology of Lord Byron's Life and Works, four pages of facsimiles of letters written by Lord Byron in 1803, 1813, and 1824, and a fold-out facsimile letter written by Byron at Venice in April 1819, then 760 pages of double-columned text, an Appendix that runs from page 761 to 812, an Index that runs to page 827, a leaf for books published lately about Lord Byron, George Crabbe, Rev. Milman, and Bishop Heber, and all the edges are marbled. George Gordon Bryon (1788 - 1824), aka Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement and has been regarded as one of England's greatest poets, and he died under strange circumstances: in the 1820's, he got involved in Greek politics in their quest for independence from the Ottoman empire, he went to Greece and was besieged by agents of rival Greek factions who wanted him on their side; traveling to one of the Greek islands his ship was intercepted by an Ottoman warship, so he was forced to find an alternative route to where he was going, he tried to pay off Albanian soldiers at an Ottoman fort to turn the fort over to him, most of the Albanian soldiers were executed by the Ottoman commander after the commander found out what was up, the remaining Albanian soldiers demanded more and more pay from Byron to do his dirty work, Byron got fed up with being blackmailed and told everyone to go home, Byron planned an attack on another Ottoman fortress, and before this expedition sailed, he caught a violent cold, was treated with bloodletting, which weakened him further, and he died in April 1824. So Byron wasn't just a poet or literary figure, he was also involved in foreign politics, which ultimately led to his death. The book is a large 8vo. and measures 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in, wide, with light rubbing on the edges of the spine, light rubbing on the heel and a nick at the crown, rubbing at the tips, a small scrape on the front cover, the front gutter is a little exposed, but the rest of the binding is tight, the frontis portrait and vignette title page have brown spots, as do the dedication page and facsimile letter from Venice, with faint toning in the margins, and still an attractive book which brings together all the poetical works of Lord Byron in one volume, and only four copies of this title are offered online at the rare book web site we use. #108 #1631