London: John Murray, Date: 1833-1834. First edition. Leather. Good Only. 9.5" by 6.5". William Finden; Edward Francis Finden. Three volumes of beautifully detailed engravings of subjects related to the life and works of Romantic poet Lord Byron, accompanied by three further volumes of explanatory notes. Three volumes of engraved plates concerning subjects associated with the life and work of the celebrated poet. Accompanied by three volumes of 'original and selected information on the subjects of the engravings' from English painter, writer and inventor William Brockedon. The first edition of this work to feature both the text and plates. With three volumes of Plates and three Letter Press volumes. With engraved title page and frontispiece portrait to Letter Press volume III. With engraved title page to Plates volume I and II. Collated, with thirty plates to volume I, eleven missing. With thirty-four plates to volume II, eight missing. With thirty-three plates to volume III. Volume III does not have a contents page, and so missing plates, if any, cannot be identified. The work of English engraver William Finden. In Finden's later life, in co-operation with his brother Edward Francis Finden, he undertook the publication as well as the production of various galleries of engravings. The first of these was this work, a series of landscape and portrait illustrations to the life and works of Byron, appearing in 1833 and following years.With plates depicting such subjects as Ada ...