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George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron

Male : Romantic Poet. Lame from birth. Married heiress Anne Isabella Milbanke in 1815 (she left him 1816). Spent much of his life travelling in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Turkey & Greece. Ostracised from England for having an incestuous affair with Augusta Leigh, his half-sister. Fought with the Greeks against the Turks. Died in Greece of malaria (or rheumatic fever)
Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1788 Date of Death : 1824 Age : 36

Pseudonyms : Horace Hornem

Education : Aberdeen GS & Harrow, Trinity College, Cambridge
Gugitive Poems
1807-1810
Hours of Idleness : A Series of Poems
(1807 S & J Ridge, Newark)
Poems Original and Translated
(1808 S & J Ridge, Newark)
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers : A Satire
(1809 James Cawthorn, London) (1818 Galignani, Paris)

1811-1815
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage : A Romaunt
(1812 Murray) - 500 copies
The Curse of Minerva
(1812)
The Waltz : An Apostrophic Hymn
(1813) - by Horace Hornem
The Bride of Abydos : A Turkish Tale
(1813 Murray)
The Giaour : a Fragment of a Turkish Tale
(1813 Murray)
The Corsair
(1814) - [initial print run of 10,000 which sold on publication day]
Lara : A Tale
(1814 Murray)
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte
(1814)
Hebrew Melodies
(1815 Murray)

1816-1820
The Siege of Corinth : A Poem. Parisina : A Poem
(1816 Murray)
Fare Thee Well !
(1816 J Davidson, London for PP distribution) - 50
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage : Canto the Third
(1816 Murray)
Poems on his Domestic Circumstances ..
(1816 W Hone, London)
The Prisoner of Chillon & other Poems
(1816 Murray)
Poems
(1816 Murray)
Monody on the Death of R B Sheridan
(1816 Murray)
Manfred : A Dramatic Poem
(1817 Murray)
The Lament of Tasso
(1817)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage : Canto the Fourth
(1818 Murray)
Three Poems, Not Included in the Works of Lord Byron : Lines to a Lady J, The Aenigma
& The Curse of Minerva
(1818 Effingham Wilson, London)
Beppo : A Venetian Story
(1818 Murray)
Mazeppa : A Poem
(1819 Murray)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage : A Romaunt, in Four Cantos
(1819 Murray) - 2 vols
Don Juan : Cantos I & II
(1819 Davison, London)
Offered in 1998 for £320

1821-1823
Letter on the Rev W L Bowle's Strictures on Pope
(1821 Murray)
Don Juan : Cantos III, IV & V
(1821 Thomas Davison, London)
Waltz : an Apostrophic Poem
(1821 W Clark, London. 2nd Ed) - by Horace Hornem
Marino Faliero : Doge of Venice - the Prophecy of Dante, a Poem
(1821 Murray)
Sardanapalus .. The Two Foscari .. Cain
(1821 Murray)
Cain : A Mystery
(1822 Galignani, Paris)
Hours of Idleness : A Series of Poems
(1822 Benbow, London)
The Liberal : Verse and Prose from the South
(1822-3 John Hunt, London) - 2 vols
The Age of Bronze or, Carmen Seculare et Annus Haud Mirablis
(1823 London for John Hunt)
Werner : A Tragedy
(1823 Murray)
Don Juan : Cantos VI, VII & VIII
(1823 John Hunt, London)
Don Juan : Cantos IX, X & XI
(1823 John Hunt)
The Island
(1823)
The Deformed Transformed
(1823)

[Between 1807 & 1823 Byron received £23.540 from John Murray for the works
he published]


1824-1825
Don Juan : Cantos XV & XVI
(1824 John & H L Hunt)
Don Juan : All 16 Cantos
(1824)
The Parliamentary Speeches
(1824 Rodwell & Martin)
The Prophecy of Dante
(1825 W Dugdale, London)
Correspondence of Lord Byron with a Friend
(1825) - 3 vols. edited by A R C Dallas

1826 -1900
Fugitive Pieces & Reminiscences
(1829 for Whitaker, Treacher, London)
Letters and Journals : with Notices of His Life by Thomas Moore
(1830 Murray) - 2 vols
Offered in 1998 for £260
Byron's Conversations with Thomas Medwin
(1832 Colburn & Bentley) - 2 vols in 1
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
(1859 John Murray) - Skelton, Lear
The Prisoner of Chillon
(1865 Day, London) - illuminated by W & G Audsley
Offered in 1995 for £390
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers : A Satire
(1865 NY) - 75 Large Paper
A Political Ode, hitherto Unknown as his Production
(1880 John Pearson, London) - 100
Letters and Journals
(1898-1901) - 6 vols. edited by R E Prothero

20thC
Poems and Letters of Lord Byron
(1912 Society for the Dofobs, Chicago) - 52
Lord Byron's Correspondence, Cheifly with Lady Melbourne
(1922) -2 vols. edited by John Murray
The Poems of Lord Byron
(1923 Florence Press)
Don Juan
(1926 JL, Bodley Head) - John Austen
The Ravenna Journal
(1928 First Edition Club, London) - 500
Manfred : A Tragedy
(1929 Fanfrolico Press) - Ltd Ed 550. Decorated by Frederick Carter
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage : A Romaunt
(1931 Harrison of Paris) - 600. Sir Francis Cyril Rose
Byron's Letters & Journals
(1973-82 Murray) - 12 cols. Edited by L A Marchand
(1974-84 Murray. reprint) - 12 vols
Offered in 1998 for £250

Editions of His Works
(1819 Murray) - 3 vols
(1821 Murray) - 5 vols
(1823 Murray) - 4 vols
(1825-6 Murray) - 8 vols
Offered in 1999 for £395
(1825 Pomeroy, Phila) - 8 vols
Including the Suppressed Poems
(1826 Galignani, Paris)
(1827 William Reeves)
(1829 Murray) - 4 vols
With his Letters and Journals
(1832-3 Murray) - 17 vols. With His Life by Thomas Moore
Offered in 1998 for £385
(1839 Murray) - 8 vols
(1850 Fullarton, Edinburgh) - 2 vols - Notes by William Anderson
(1851 Murray) - 10 vols
(1857 Baudry's European Library, Paris)
(1874 Osgood, Boston) - 10 vols
(c1878 Warne) - Houghton, F M Brown, Birket FosterWorks
(1898-1904) - 7 vols incl a Bibliography. Edited by E H Coleridge
Offered in 1999 for £250
New Revised Edition
(1904-22 Murray) - 13 vols
(1980 Clarendon Press) - edited by Jerome J McGann

READING
1822-1850
John Watkins : Memoirs of the Life & Writings of the Rt Hon Lord Byron
(1822 Colburn)
Sir Cosmo Gordon : Life & Genius of Lord Byron
(1824 Knight & Lacey, London)
George Clinton : Memoirs of the Life & Writings of Lord Byron
(1825 James Robins, London)
John Galt : The Life of Lord Byron
(1830 Colburn & Bentley : No.1 in the Library
of General Knowledge 5/-) (1830 E Little, Phila)

1851-1900
The Home and Grave of Byron : An Account of Newstead Abbey, Annesley Hall and Hucknall-Torkard
(1852 London)
Countess Teresa Guiccioli : Lord Byron Juge sic - My Recollections of Lord Byron
(1869 Bentley. New Ed) (1869 Harper)
Karl Elze : Lord Byron : A Biography with a Critical Essay on his Place in Literature
(1872 Murray)
Emilio Castelar : Life of Lord Byron & other Sketches
(1875 Tinsley)
John Cordy Jeaffreson : The Real Lord Byron : New Views of the Poet's Life
(1883 Hurst & Blackett) - 2 vols

1901-1950
Dora Neill Raymond : The Political Career of Lord Byron
(1925 Allen & Unwin)
Thomas James Wise : A Byron Library - A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts
(1928 PP, London)
George Paston & Peter Quennell : To Lord Byron : Feminine Profiles based upon Unpublished
Letters 1807-1824
(1939 Murray)
Willis W Pratt : Byron at Southwell :-the Making of a Poet, with New Poems & Letters from the
Rare Books Collection of the University of Texas
(1948 Texas UP, Austin)
Leslie Marchand : Byron
(1958) - 3 vols
Thomas James Wise : A Bibliography of the Wirings in Verse & prose of Byron
(1932-33 London) - 2 vols
D Gray : The Life and Work of Lord Byron
(1945 Newstead Abbey, Nottingham)
[Newstead Abbey at Linby in Nottinghamshire was where Byron lived. The Roe Collection
of his letters, first editions and manuscripts is housed here]


1951 Onwards
Leslie Marchand : The Life of Byron
(1957) - 3 vols
E M Butler : Byron and Goethe
(1957 Bowes & Bowes 30/-)
Andrew Rutherford : Byron - A Critical Study
(1961 Oliver & Boyd)
Thomas James Wise : A Bibliography of the Wirings in Verse & prose of Byron
(1965 Dawsons Pall Mall, London)
Leslie Marchand : Byron - A Portrait
(1970)
John D Jump : Byron
(1972 Routledge)
(Ed) Leslie Marchand : Byron's Letters and Journals (1973-82) - 12vols
Catherine Turney : Byron's Daughter - A Biography of Elizabeth Medora Leigh
(1974 Peter Davies)
Christopher Nicole : The Secret Memoirs of Lord Byron
(1978 Michael Joseph)
Frederic Raphael : Byron
(1982)
Michael Foot : The Politics of Paradise - A Vindication of Byron
(1988 Collins)
Peter Quennell : Byron - A Self-Portrait in his Own Words
(1989)
Andrew Elfenbein : Byron and the Victorians
(1995 CUP £35)
Phyllis Grosskurth : Byron - The Flawed Angel
(1997 Hodder & Stoughton £25)
Benita Eisler : Byron - Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
(1999 Hamish Hamilton £25)
Fiona MacCarthy : Byron - Life and Legend
(2002 Murray £25)

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