8vo. 128pp. With a half-title. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath (stamp-signed to verso of FFEP) in modern gilt-tooled blue calf, contrasting red and brown morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G., marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Lightly rubbed, joints creased. Very occasional light spotting. W. A. Foyle's copy, with his morocco bookplate to FEP.

The first edition, published anonymously, of Byron's tragic narrative poem Lara, printed together with the first release of Samuel Rogers' (1763-1855) Jacqueline, a similar long narrative poem written in iambic tetrameter.

Lara, intended as a sequel to Byron's previous narrative epic, The Corsair (1814), follows the journey of the mysterious Count Lara as he returns to his native country and leads a doomed serf rebellion against its rulers. In contrast, Rogers' Jacqueline tells the tale of a runaway bride, who is blessed with a forgiving father. Prior to their joint publication, Byron's admiration for Rogers had been well documented; he had acclaimed his fellow poet as 'melodious Rogers' in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), and to Rogers he had dedicated his first Oriental romance, The Giaour (1813).

William Alfred Westropp Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, co-founder of the eponymous bookshop on Charing Cross Road. Following his purchase of the former medieval monastery of Beeleigh Abbey in 1943, Foyle built an extensive personal library. In July 2000, following the death of his daughter and successor Christina, the library was dispersed at Christie's over three days, at the time being the most valuable English private library ever to be offered in Britain or on the Continent. Those books that remained with the family were sold by Dominic Winter Auctioneers in 2023 following the death of Foyle's grandson Christopher.