Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author
first edition hardcover
1878 · London
by TRELAWNY, Edward John
London: Pickering, 1878. hardcover. very good(+). 2 frontispiece portraits, 3 illustrations. 2 volumes. Short 8vos, original black cloth with gilt-lettered spines and double filet borders. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1878. First Edition thus. First published in 1858 and here reissued with a new preface and additions. "By this book Trelawny has indissolubly linked his name with those of the two great poets he has depicted. In his portraits of Shelley we have the real Shelley as we have it nowhere else; his portrait of Byron is not only less agreeable, but less truthful, but the fault is not so much in the artist as in the sitter, who pays the penalty of his incessant pose and perpetual mystification .... When Byron is natural, Trelawny is appreciative. His account of his own adventures in Greece is simple and modest." - DNB XIX. (Inventory #: 292722)