Byron. [Hobhouse (John Cam)]/Broughton (The Right Hon. Lord)...

Hammer

£1,800

Byron. [Hobhouse (John Cam)]/Broughton (The Right Hon. Lord), Contemporary Account of the Separation of Lord and Lady Byron; also, An Account of the Destruction of Lord Byron’s Memoirs, sole edition, London: Privately Printed/Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, 1870, 239pp, still unbound in 8s as issued, ex-lib and with some stamps, including the title-page, loosely preserved in a manila wrap inscribed: Presented by Mr D Durrant, The Old House, Bleasby, 8vo, [Wise II 105].


“One of the scarcest, as well as one of the most important, of the many volumes devoted to the life and affairs of Byron” (Wise, A Byron Library). An early source for the debate concerning the “mystery” of the Byrons’ separation (attributed, amongst other things, to incest and sodomy), and the infamous destruction, by Hobhouse, of Byron’s memoirs immediately following the poet’s death.