LANDOR, Robert Eyres (1781-1869). The Count Arezzi, a Tragedy, in Five Acts. [Bound after:] The Impious Feast: a Poem in Ten Books. London: John Booth, 1824, & J. Hatchard and Son, 1828. 2 works in 1 volume, octavo (210 x 138 mm), [4] 192, xxviii 356. Contemporary half calf. Backstrip perished, front board detached, occasional light spotting and soiling. First editions, both rare in commerce. Robert Landor, a clergyman by profession, was the younger brother of Walter Savage Landor, whom he helped edit the second edition of his poem Gebir in 1803. He 'wrote in several genres, producing four closet dramas, two novels, one long poem, and a series of political letters on the trial of Queen Caroline. In 1824 his verse play The Count Arezzi won praise for its poetical language and its originality, and it sold well until Landor announced that, contrary to rumour, Lord Byron was not the author. In 1828 Landor published the narrative poem The Impious Feast, which was criticized for mixing romance with a biblical subject. The poem is also notable for combining rhyme with blank verse ... Robert Landor was not well known even in his own day, and afterwards was almost totally forgotten—unjustly so, according to one of his biographers, who praises his originality, his "moral nobility", and his elegant prose style' (ODNB).