Chronicles and Characters

Chronicles and Characters. In Two Volumes. By Robert Lytton (Owen Meredith) Signed binding by Orrock, Edinburgh

Author: Lytton, Robert (Owen Meredith)

12mo.(4.75" x 7") 1868. Lytton, Robert (Owen Meredith). London: Chapman and Hall. Full red morocco with gilt fancy frames with gilt lacy filigree surrounding a delicate gilt filigree compass rose centered to both boards. Spine with gilt title to gilt rule framed second compartment, gilt author/vol# to gilt rule framed third compartment, with heavy gilt filigree frames and centered device to all other compartments, gilt place/date at the foot. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Very little edgewear other than rubbing to head and foot of spine and joints (see pic), otherwise a Fine set of books. Old ink inscription to head of half-title page in volume I, typed slip of paper tipped in to front free flyleafs stating "Bequeathed by Gertrude, Lady Pembroke, to Margaret, Wife of Reginald Talbot" in both volumes. Signed binding "Bound by Orrock, Edinburgh. Large armorial roundel tipped into first freeleaf of vol II (see pic). Red satin bookmarks sewn in. A gorgeous set of books.

From Wiki: Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, PC (8 November 1831 – 24 November 1891) was an English statesman, Conservative politician and poet who used the pseudonym Owen Meredith. During his tenure as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880, Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India. He served as British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891. When Lytton was twenty-five years old, he published in London a volume of poems under the name of Owen Meredith. He went on to publish several other volumes under the same name. The most popular is Lucile, a story in verse published in 1860. His poetry was extremely popular and critically commended in his own day. He was a great experimenter with form. Lytton under esteemed his poetic ability: in his Chronicles and Characters (1868), the poor response to which distressed him, Lytton states, 'Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man./Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can'. However, Lytton's poetic ability was highly esteemed by other literary personalities of the day, and Oscar Wilde dedicated his play Lady Windermere's Fan to him.

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