London. T. Cadell & W. Davies. 1812. pp. xvi, 435. Frontis, 1 plate. 4to. Half later calf, marbled boards. pp.153/154 small section of lower margin neatly cut away not affecting text, p.231 pencil notation crosse out in ink. Light foxing throughout. From the library of William St Clair with his pencil notations on the endpapers. On the titlepage is an oval label inscribed Ne Obliviscaris Ioh. Campbell. Hosp. Linc. Soc. with the heraldic device of a boar's head. This crest is of the Campbell family and Hosp. Linc. Soc indicates a connection to Lincoln's Inn Galt met Byron and John Cam Hobhouse in Gibraltar and sailed in the same ship, Townshend, to Malta. Galt, in this book does not mention this, although he does in is Life of Byron (1830). Byron is aware of this book. Writing on 21 February 1812 to Francis Hodgson he says 'There is a book entituled "Galt, his Travels in ye Archipelago," daintily printed by Cadell and Davies, ye which I could desiderate might be criticised by you, inasmuch as ye author is a well-respected esquire of mine acquaintance, but I fear will meet with little mercy as a writer, unless a friend passeth judgment. Truth to say, ye boke is ye boke of a cock-brained man, and is full of devices crude and conceited, ....'(Marchand Letters and Journals. Vol 2, p 164.) Byron later changed his opinion when discussing Galt's novels - ODNB 'Lady Blessington in her Conversations with Lord Byron (249–50) reports that he said about Galt:I am pleased at finding he is as amiable a man as his recent works prove him to be a clever and intelligent author. When I knew Galt some years ago, I was not in a frame of mind to form an impartial opinion of him; his mildness and equanimity struck me even then; but, to say the truth, his manner had not deference enough for my then aristocratical taste, and finding I could not awe him into a respect sufficiently profound for my sublime self, either as a peer or as an author, I felt a little grudge towards him that has now completely worn off … There is a quaint humour and observance of character in his novels that interest me very much … he shows a tenderness of heart which convinces one that his is the right place.' Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Cantos 1 & 2, the book that made Byron famous was published on the 3rd March 1812. 

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