8vo. xxiii, [1], 351pp, [1], ciii, [1]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of Lord Byron, a large folding facsimile of his handwriting, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Modern black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, with the library stamp of Nottingham Public Libraries to top edge. Armorial bookplate of the Local History Library, Citty of Nottingham Public Libraries to FEP, with their library-stamp to verso of title and blind-stamp to head of title. Title page browned, light scattered spotting.

A new edition of an infamous memoir of Byron by English poet and writer Thomas Medwin (1788-1869), perhaps better known as the biographer of his cousin Percy Shelley. Published just under three months after the great Romantic poet's death, Medwin's recollections of his friend received significant backlash, both personal and literary - among its detractors were Mary Shelley, Blackwood's Magazine, the Westminster Review, and Byron's mistress, Lady Caroline Lamb, who wrote Medwin scathing letters in response to his assertions about their affair. Maintaining a reputation for controversy until his death, Medwin eventually wrote a full Life of Shelley (1847), a strongly opinionated work which included personal attacks on his own enemies, and which was subsequently lambasted in The Atheneum itself.