1825, ISBN: fb8930529c4e468a03b8e022f25f707d

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Gebraucht, [SC: 8.25], [PU: John Murray, London], LORD BYRON, JOURNALS, GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, DIARIES,, xii, 307 p. 22 cm. Two fold-out facsimiles. Cloth hardcover. Front board and p… More...

Gebraucht, [SC: 8.25], [PU: John Murray, London], LORD BYRON, JOURNALS, GREEK WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, DIARIES,, xii, 307 p. 22 cm. Two fold-out facsimiles. Cloth hardcover. Front board and pages up to viii and rear board and pages from 289 onwards are detache. Spine mainly missing. Some tape on spine, spots to cloth. Bookplate for Rowland Edmund Prothero of 3 Cheyne Walk on front pastedown. Pencil inscriptions. Ink date, spot and chip to title page. Other spots to first pages. Extracted from the journal of count Peter Gamba, who attended His Lordship on that expedition. Chew p. 205. Wise Vol. 2, p. 87. A first-hand account of Byron's ill-fated venture into the Greek War of Independence compiled from diaries written at the time by Byron's chief assistant and the brother of his mistress, Teresa Guiccioli. Considered to be a reliable account of Byron's last days. Former owner likely the British agricultural expert, administrator, journalist, author and Conservative politician by that name.<