Byron, George Gordon (Lord) — Childe Harold's Pilgrimage : A Romance (2 Volumes Complete)

Boston, Joseph Knight Company, 1885. Original Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Hardcover in slip. Bound in red cloth with gilt stamped titles and design. Volumes numbered consecutively with 236 total pages. Bw frontis of Lord Byron in Volume I; 14 photogravure illus. in Volume 1 and 15 in volume 2. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is dedicated to "Ianthe". The poem describes the travels and reflections of a world-weary young man who, disillusioned with a life of pleasure and revelry, looks for distraction in foreign lands. In a wider sense, it is an expression of the melancholy and disillusionment felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. The title comes from the term childe, a medieval title for a young man who was a candidate for knighthood. The poem contains elements thought to be autobiographical, as Byron generated some of the storyline from experience gained during his travels through Portugal, the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea between 1809 and 1811. The "Ianthe" of the dedication was the term of endearment he used for Lady Charlotte Harley, about 11 years old when Childe Harold was first published. - Wikipedia. VG-. A few plates shaken loose, but still present. Otherwise a nice copy.