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A Cotemporary [sic] Narrative of Events Connected with the Separation of Lord and Lady Byron by (Byroniana) [Hobhouse, John Cam], Lord Broughton - 1870
by (Byroniana) [Hobhouse, John Cam], Lord Broughton
A Cotemporary [sic] Narrative of Events Connected with the Separation of Lord and Lady Byron
by (Byroniana) [Hobhouse, John Cam], Lord Broughton
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London: John Murray, 1870. Proof copy, a few corrections in ink. viii, 242 pp. 8vo. Green buckram, some rubbing and fading to covers, text browned, title-page split at gutter. Proof copy, a few corrections in ink. viii, 242 pp. 8vo. Proof copy of John Cam Hobhouse's defence of Byron's conduct in regards the separation with his wife, Anne Milbanke. Written in 1830, the work was not published until after Hobhouse's death in 1869. Hobhouse befriended Byron at Trinity College, Cambridge, and accompanied the poet on his first voyage to Greece. His account was published in 1813 as A Journey through Albania, and Other Provinces of Turkey. With a copy of the book as privately published (as "Contemporary Account of the Separation of Lord and Lady Byron") with alterations, later in the same year, bound by Bartlett, Boston, in half blue morocco. Provenance: Robert John Shiell (signature, London 1958); Keith Walker (signature, Trinity College, Cambridge)
- Bookseller James Cummins Bookseller (US)
- Format/Binding Viii, 242 pp. 8vo
- Book Condition Used - Green buckram, some rubbing and fading to covers, text browned, title-page split at gutter
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition Proof copy, a few corrections in ink
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher John Murray
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1870
- Keywords British | Romanticism