Byron's Travels: Poems, Letters, and Journals (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

Very clever approach to reading Byron

This is a very nicely produced book on good paper, with extracts from poetry and letters grouped around the various places in Byron's life. If you are a Byron enthusiast, you will probably have all the material assembled here already in other forms, but it is certainly fun to browse through by place, and the selections from e.g. Don Juan are always entertaining and need no reviewing by me.Several of the Greek words that Byron used in his letters are misprinted: 'υα' [ua] instead of 'να' [na] and 'δονλοσ' [donlos] instead of 'δουλοσ' [doulos] (Byron did not use the final sigma). I assume these are OCR errors that were never picked up in proofreading – do Knopf not have anyone who can read Greek? This is more and more common in works with Greek quotations, but this is a prestige Everyman's Library edition, and in one of the letters included in the volume, Byron – a philhellene and linguist – actually rants about 'gross misprints'. There is also a misprint in the dust jacket copy. It is an unfortunate blot on an otherwise handsome production and suggests a book rushed off the presses in time for the 200th anniversary.

I deduct one star for the following reason. You told me to collect it 'by' 23 May, but told me at 3 p.m. on 23 May that I had missed the deadline and could no longer collect it.. 'By 23 May' means (as an Oxford dictionary confirms) 'not later that', not 'before'. Happily, I was able to get to the collection point before it had actually been sent back.Please improve someone's English.