Lord Byron — Childe Harold&Apos;S Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth

London, John Murray, 1818. Hardback. The first edition, third issue of the fourth canto of Lord Byron's influential narrative poem, 'Child Harold's Pilgrimage&apos. The first edition, third issue, according to the following issue points detailed by Wise [p. 61-62]. (1) Page 217 has three footnotes instead of two. (2) Page 218 has four footnotes instead of five. (3) From page 226 the eight-line footnote was removed altogether. "These changes entailed the reprinting of signatures P and Q, and the new sheets were signed *P and *Q."Bound in paper covered boards. Rebacked, with renewed spine and spine labels and original boards. Leaves uncut. Issued without half title. With five-line errata to p. 236. Advertisements to the recto and verso of signature S2.The fourth canto of Lord Byron's popular narrative poem 'Child Harold's Pilgrimage', which describes the travels and reflections of a disillusioned young man looking for distraction in foreign lands. It served as an expression of the wider melancholy felt by a generation weary of the wars of the post-Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. Bound in paper covered boards. Rebacked, with renewed spine, original boards and spine label. Leaves uncut. Externally, marks and rubbing to the original boards. Toning to the spine label. Internally, pages 83-94 are detached but present. Good . Ill.: None. Good .