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First edition of Benjamin Delaroche's translation. Notes and commentary by Walter Scott, Thomas Moore, etc. Printed on fine laid paper. The copy has been extra-illustrated with 39 steel engravings from the album "Women of Byron," a type of collection very fashionable at the time, as there were also "Women of Balzac," "Women of Walter Scott," and "Women of Shakespeare," in which the heroines of the novels were depicted in engravings by English artists, considered masters of the genre during this period. Life of Byron by John Galt.
Contemporary half polished navy calf binding. Spine with 4 flat raised bands decorated with fillets and compartments, roulettes at head and tail. Gilt title and volume number. Navy marbled paper with wave pattern. Marbled edges. Traces of rubbing. Overall the paper is in very fine condition, with occasional light foxing at the tissue guards, in the margins of the engravings, at the beginning or end of volumes. Traces of an old label in the last compartments. Corner fold to second board of volume 4.
Handsome copy.