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The Works
OF
LORD BYRON
A NEW, REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
Poetry. Vol. VII.
EDITED BY
ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE, M.A.,
HON. F.R.S.L.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.
1904.
PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH VOLUME.
Of the seventy-three "Epigrams and Jeux d'Esprit," which are printed at
the commencement of this volume, forty-five were included in Murray's
one-volume edition of 1837, eighteen have been collected from various
publications, and ten are printed and published for the first time.
The "Devil's Drive," which appears in Moore's _Letters and Journals_,
and in the sixth volume of the Collected Edition of 1831 as an
"Unfinished Fragment" of ninety-seven lines, is now printed and
published for the first time in its entirety (248 lines), from a MS. in
the possession of the Earl of Ilchester. "A Farewell Petition to J.C.H.
Esq.;" "My Boy Hobbie O;" "[Love and Death];" and "Last Words on
Greece," are reprinted from the first volume of _Murray's Magazine_
(1887).
A few imperfect and worthless poems remain in MS.; but with these and
one or two other unimportant exceptions, the present edition of the
Poetical Works may be regarded as complete.
In compiling a "Bibliography of the successive Editions and Translations
of Lord Byron's Poetical Works," I have endeavoured, in the first
instance, to give a full and particular account of the collected
editions and separate issues of the poems and dramas which were open to
my inspection; and, secondly, to extract from general bibliographies,
catalogues of public and private libraries, and other sources
bibliographical records of editions which I have been unable to examine,
and were known to me only at second-hand. It will be observed that the
_title-pages_ of editions which have passed through my hands are
aligned; the _titles_ of all other editions are italicized.
I cannot pretend that this assortment of bibliographical entries is even
approximately exhaustive; but as "a sample" of a bibliography it will, I
trust, with all its imperfections, be of service to the student of
literature, if not to the amateur or bibliophile. With regard to
nomenclature and other technicalities, my aim has been to put the
necessary information as clearly and as concisely as possible, rather
than to comply with the requirements of this or that formula. But the
path of the bibliographer is beset with difficulties. "Al Sirat's
arch"--"the bridge of breadth narrower than the thread of a famished
spider, and sharper than the edge of a sword" (see _The Giaour_, line
483, _note_ I)--affords an easier and a safer foothold.
To the general reader a bibliography says little or nothing; but, in one
respect, a bibliography of Byron is of popular import. It affords
scientific proof of an almost unexampled fame, of a far-reaching and
still potent influence. Teuton and Latin and Slav have taken Byron to
themselves, and have made him their own. No other English poet except
Shakespeare has been so widely read and so frequently translated. Of
_Manfred_ I reckon one Bohemian translation, two Danish, two Dutch,
three French, nine German, three Hungarian, three Italian, two Polish,
one Romaic, one Roumanian, four Russian, and three Spanish translations,
and, in all probability, there are others which have escaped my net. The
question, the inevitable question, arises--What was, what is, the secret
of Byron's Continental vogue? and why has his fame gone out into all
lands? Why did Goethe enshrine him, in the second part of _Faust_, "as
the representative of the modern era ... undoubtedly to be regarded as
the greatest genius of our century?" (_Conversations of Goethe_, 1874,
p. 265).
It is said, and with truth, that Byron's revolutionary politics
commended him to oppressed nationalities and their sympathizers; that he
was against "the tramplers"--Castlereagh, and the Duke of Wellington,
and the Holy Alliance; that he stood for liberty. Another point in his
favour was his freedom from cant, his indifference to the pieties and
proprieties of the Britannic Muse; that he had the courage of his
opinions. Doubtless in a time of trouble he was welcomed as the champion
of revolt, but deeper reasons must be sought for an almost exclusive
preference for the works of one poet and a comparative indifference to
the works of his rivals and contemporaries. He fulfilled another,
perhaps a greater ideal. An Englishman turns to poetry for the
expression in beautiful words of his happier and better feelings, and he
is not contented unless poetry tends to make him happier or
better--happier because better than he would be otherwise. His favourite
poems are psalms, or at least metrical paraphrases, of life. Men of
other nations are less concerned about their feelings and their souls.
They regard the poet as the creator, the inventor, the maker _par
excellence_, and he who can imagine or make the greatest _eidolon_ is
the greatest poet. _Childe Harold_ and _The Corsair_, _Mazeppa_ and
_Manfred, Cain_ and _Sardanapalus_ were new creations, new types, forms
more real than living man, which appealed to their artistic sense, and
led their imaginations captive. "It is a mark," says Goethe (_Aus meinem
Leben: Dichtung und Wahreit_, 1876, iii. 125), "of true poetry, that, as
a secular gospel, it knows how to free us from the earthly burdens which
press upon us, by inward serenity, by outward charm.... The most lively,
as well as the gravest works have the same end--to moderate both
pleasure and pain through a happy mental representation." It is passion
translated into action, the pageantry of history, the transfiguration
into visible lineaments of living moods and breathing thoughts which are
the notes of this "secular gospel," and for one class of minds work out
a secular redemption.
It was not only the questionable belief that he was on the side of the
people, or his ethical and theological audacities, or his prolonged
Continental exile, which won for Byron a greater name abroad than he has
retained at home; but the character of his poetry. "The English may
think of Byron as they please" (_Conversations of Goethe_, 1874, p.
171), "but this is certain, that they can show no poet who is to be
compared to him. He is different from all the others, and, for the most
part, greater." The English may think of him as they please! and for
them, or some of them, there is "a better oenomel," a _vinum Dæmonum_,
which Byron has not in his gift. The evidence of a world-wide fame will
not endear a poet to a people and a generation who care less for the
matter than the manner of verse, or who _believe_ in poetry as the
symbol or "_credo_" of the imagination or the spirit; but it should
arrest attention and invite inquiry. A bibliography is a dull epilogue
to a poet's works, but it speaks with authority, and it speaks last.
_Finis coronat opus!_
I must be permitted to renew my thanks to Mr. G.F. Barwick,
_Superintendent of the Reading Room_, Mr. Cyril Davenport, and other
officials of the British Museum, of all grades and classes, for their
generous and courteous assistance in the preparation and completion of
the Bibliography. The consultation of many hundreds of volumes of one
author, and the permission to retain a vast number in daily use, have
entailed exceptional labour on a section of the staff. I have every
reason to be grateful.
I am indebted to Mr. A.W. Pollard, of the British Museum, for advice and
direction with regard to bibliographical formulas; to Mr. G.L. Calderon,
late of the staff, for the collection and transcription of the
title-pages of Polish, Russian, and Servian translations; and to Mr. R.
Nisbet Bain for the supervision and correction of the proofs of Slavonic
titles.
To Mr. W.P. Courtney, the author of _Bibliotheca Cornubiensis_, I owe
many valuable hints and suggestions, and the opportunity of consulting
some important works of reference.
I have elsewhere acknowledged the valuable information with regard to
certain rare editions and pamphlets which I have received from Mr. H.
Buxton Forman, C.B.
My especial thanks for laborious researches undertaken on my behalf, and
for information not otherwise attainable, are due to M. J.E. Aynard, of
Lyons; Signor F. Bianco; Professor Max von Förster, of Wurtzburg;
Professor Lajos Gurnesovitz, of Buda Pest; Dr. Holzhausen, of Bonn; Mr.
Leonard Mackall, of Berlin; Miss Peacock; Miss K. Schlesinger; M.
Voynich, of Soho Square; Mr. Theodore Bartholomew, of the University
Library of Cambridge; Mr. T.D. Stewart, of the Croydon Public Library;
and the Librarians of Trinity College, Cambridge, and University
College, St. Andrews.
I have also to thank, for special and generous assistance, Mr. J.P.
Anderson, late of the British Museum, the author of the "Bibliography of
Byron's Works" attached to the Life of Lord Byron by the Hon. Roden Noel
(1890); Miss Grace Reed, of Philadelphia, for bibliographical entries of
early American editions; and Professor Vladimir Hrabar, of the
University of Dorpat, for the collection and transcription of numerous
Russian translations of Byron's Works.
To Messrs. Clowes, the printers of these volumes, and to their reader,
Mr. F.T. Peachey, I am greatly indebted for the transcription of
Slavonic titles included in the Summary of the Bibliography, and for
interesting and useful information during the progress of the work.
In conclusion, I must once more express my acknowment of the industry
and literary ability of my friend Mr. F.E. Taylor, of Chertsey, who has
read the proofs of this and the six preceding volumes.
The Index is the work of Mr. C. Eastlake Smith.
ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE.
November, 1903.
CONTENTS OF VOL. VII.
Preface to Vol. VII. of the Poems. _v_
JEUX D'ESPRIT AND MINOR POEMS, 1798-1824.
Epigram on an Old Lady who had some Curious Notions respecting the 1
Soul. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 28.
Epitaph on John Adams, of Southwell. First published, _Letters and 1
Journals_, 1830, i. 106.
A Version of Ossian's Address to the Sun. First published, 2
_Atlantic Monthly_, December, 1898.
Lines to Mr. Hodgson. Written on board the Lisbon Packet. First 4
published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 230-232.
[To Dives. A Fragment.] First published, _Lord Byron's Works_, 7
1833, xvii. 241.
Farewell Petition to J.C.H., Esq^re.^ First published, _Murray's 7
Magazine_, 1887, vol. i. pp. 290, 291.
Translation of the Nurse's Dole in the _Medea_ of Euripides. First 10
published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 227.
My Epitaph. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 240. 10
Substitute for an Epitaph. First published, _Lord Byron's Works_, 11
1832, ix. 4.
Epitaph for Joseph Blacket, late Poet and Shoemaker. First 11
published, _Lord Byron's Works_, 1832, ix. 10.
On Moore's Last Operatic Farce, or Farcical Opera. First published, 12
_Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 295 (_note_).
[R.C. Dallas.] First published, _Life, Writings, Opinions, etc._, 12
1825, ii. 192.
An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill. First published, _Morning 13
Chronicle_, March 2, 1812.
To the Honorable Mr. George Lamb. First published, _The Two 15
Duchesses_, by Vere Foster, 1898, p. 374.
[La Revanche.] _MS.M_. 15
To Thomas Moore. Written the Evening before his Visit to Mr. Leigh 16
Hunt in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, May 19, 1813. First published,
_Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 401.
On Lord Thurlow's Poems. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 17
1830, i. 396.
To Lord Thurlow. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 19
397.
The Devil's Drive. First published (stanzas 1-5, 8, 10-12, 17, 18), 21
_Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 471-474; and (stanzas 6, 7, 9,
13-16, 19-27) from a MS. in the possession of the Earl of
Ilchester.
Windsor Poetics. First published, _Poetical Works_, Paris, 1819, 35
vi. 125.
[Another Version.] On a Royal Visit to the Vaults. From an 36
autograph MS. in the possession of the Hon. Mrs. Norbury, now for
the first time printed.
Ich Dien. From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. A.H. 36
Hallam Murray, now for the first time printed.
Condolatory Address, To Sarah Countess of Jersey. First published, 37
_The Champion_, July 31, 1814.
Fragment of an Epistle to Thomas Moore. First published, _Letters 39
and Journals_, 1830, i. 561, 562 (_note_).
Answer to----'s Professions of Affection. _MS_. 40
On Napoleon's Escape from Elba. First published, _Letters and 41
Journals_, 1830, i. 611.
Endorsement to the Deed of Separation, in the April of 1816. First 41
published, _Poetical Works_, 1831, vi. 454.
[To George Anson Byron (?).] First published, _Nicnac_, March 25, 41
1823.
Song for the Luddites. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 42
1830, ii. 58.
To Thomas Moore ("What are you doing now?"). First published, 23
_Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 58, 59.
To Mr. Murray ("To hook the Reader," etc.). First published, 44
_Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 91.
Versicles. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 87. 45
Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat. First published, _Letters_,
1900, iv. 45
To Thomas Moore ("My boat is on the shore"). First published, 46
_Waltz_, London, 1821, p. 29.
Epistle from Mr. Murray to Dr. Polidori. First published, _Letters 47
and Journals_, 1830, ii. 139-141.
Epistle to Mr. Murray. First published (stanzas 1, 2, 4, 7-9), 51
_Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 156, 157; and (stanzas 3, 5, 6,
10, 11) _Letters_, 1900, iv. 191-193.
On the Birth of John William Rizzo Hoppner. First published, 54
_Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 134.
[E Nihilo Nihil; or, An Epigram Bewitched.] _MS.M_. 55
To Mr. Murray. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 56
171.
Ballad. To the Tune of "Sally in our Alley." _MS.M_. 58
Another Simple Ballat. _MS.M_. 61
Epigram. From the French of Rulhiéres. First published, _Letters 62
and Journals_, 1830, ii. 235.
Epilogue. First published, _Philadelphia Record_, December 28, 63
1891.
On my Wedding-Day. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, 64
ii. 294.
Epitaph for William Pitt. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 64
1830, ii. 295.
Epigram ("In digging up your bones, Tom Paine"). First published, 65
_Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 295.
Epitaph ("Posterity will ne'er survey"). First published, _Lord 65
Byron's Works_, 1833, xvii. 246.
Epigram ("The world is a bundle of hay"). First published, _Letters 65
and Journals_, 1830, ii. 494.
My Boy Hobbie O. First published, _Murray's Magazine_, March, 1887, 66
vol. i. pp. 292, 293.
Lines, Addressed by Lord Byron to Mr. Hobhouse on his Election for 69
Westminster. First published, _Miscellaneous Poems_, 1824.
A Volume of Nonsense. First published, _Letters_, 1900, v. 83. 70
Stanzas. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 377. 70
To Penelope. First published, Medwin's _Conversations_, 1824 p. 106. 71
The Charity Ball. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, 71
ii. 540.
Epigram, On the Braziers' Address, etc. First published, _Letters 72
and Journals_, 1830, ii. 442.
On my Thirty-third Birthday. First published, _Letters and 73
Journals_, 1830, ii. 414.
Martial, Lib. I. Epig. I. First published, _Lord Byron's Works_, 74
1833, xvii. 245.
Bowles and Campbell. First published, _The Liberal_, 1823, No. II. 74
p. 398.
Elegy. First published, Medwin's _Conversations_, 1824, p. 121. 75
John Keats. First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 506. 76
From the French ("Ægle, beauty and poet," etc.). First published, 76
_The Liberal_, 1823, No. II. p. 396.
To Mr. Murray ("For Orford," etc.). First published, _Letters and 76
Journals_, 1830, ii. 517.
[Napoleon's Snuff-box.] First published, _Conversations of Lord 77
Byron_, 1824, p. 235.
The New Vicar of Bray. First published, _Works_ (Galignani), 1831, 78
p. 116.
Lucietta. A Fragment. _MS.M_. 81
Epigrams. First published, _The Liberal_, No. I. October 18, 1822, 81
p. 164.
The Conquest. First published, _Lord Byron's Works_, 1833, xvii. 82
246.
Impromptu ("Beneath Blessington's eyes"). First published, _Letters 82
and Journals_, 1830, ii. 635.
Journal in Cephalonia. First published, _Letters_, 1901, vi. 238. 83
Song to the Suliotes. _MS.M_. 83
[Love and Death.] First published, _Murray's Magazine_, February, 84
1887, vol. i. pp. 145, 146.
Last Words on Greece. First published, _Murray's Magazine_, 85
February, 1887, vol. i. p. 146.
On this Day I complete my Thirty-sixth Year. First published, 86
_Morning Chronicle_, October 29, 1824.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SUCCESSIVE EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF LORD 89
BYRON'S _POETICAL WORKS_.
NOTES--
Note (1).--On Genuine and Spurious Issues of _English Bards, and 305
Scotch Reviewers_.
Note (2).--Correspondence between the First Edition as numbered and 307
the Present Issue as numbered.
Note (3).--The Annotated Copies of the Fourth Edition of 1811 310
APPENDIX TO BIBLIOGRAPHY 314
CONTENTS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY 317
SUMMARY OF BIBLIOGRAPHY 319
INDEX 349
INDEX TO FIRST LINES 449
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Mrs. Birdmere's House, Southwell 2
2. Annesley Hall 38
3. Diadem Hill (Annesley Park), where Lord Byron parted 304
from Mary Chaworth
4. The Prison Called Tasso's Cell, in the Hospital of 348
Sant'Anna, at Ferrara
JEUX D'ESPRIT AND MINOR POEMS, 1798-1824.
EPIGRAM ON AN OLD LADY WHO HAD
SOME CURIOUS NOTIONS RESPECTING THE SOUL.
IN Nottingham county there lives at Swan Green,[1]
As curst an old Lady as ever was seen;
And when she does die, which I hope will be soon,
She firmly believes she will go to the Moon!
1798.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 28.]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] "Swan Green" should be "Swine Green." It lay about a quarter of a
mile to the east of St. James's Lane, where Byron lodged in 1799, at the
house of a Mr. Gill. The name appears in a directory of 1799, but by
1815 it had been expunged or changed _euphoniæ gratiâ_. (See _A New Plan
of the Town of Nottingham_, ... 1744.)
Moore took down "these rhymes" from the lips of Byron's nurse, May Gray,
who regarded them as a first essay in the direction of poetry. He
questioned their originality.
EPITAPH ON JOHN ADAMS, OF SOUTHWELL,
A CARRIER, WHO DIED OF DRUNKENNESS.
JOHN ADAMS lies here, of the parish of Southwell,
A _Carrier_ who _carried_ his can to his mouth well;
He carried so much and he carried so fast,
He could carry no more--so was carried at last;
For the liquor he drank being too much for one,
He could not _carry_ off;--so he's now _carri-on_.
_September_, 1807.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 106.]
[Illustration: MRS. BIRDMERE'S HOUSE, SOUTHWELL.]
A VERSION OF OSSIAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SUN.
FROM THE POEM "CARTHON."
O THOU! who rollest in yon azure field,
Round as the orb of my forefather's shield,
Whence are thy beams? From what eternal store
Dost thou, O Sun! thy vast effulgence pour?
In awful grandeur, when thou movest on high,
The stars start back and hide them in the sky;
The pale Moon sickens in thy brightening blaze,
And in the western wave avoids thy gaze.
Alone thou shinest forth--for who can rise
Companion of thy splendour in the skies!
The mountain oaks are seen to fall away--
Mountains themselves by length of years decay--
With ebbs and flows is the rough Ocean tost;
In heaven the Moon is for a season lost,
But thou, amidst the fullness of thy joy,
The same art ever, blazing in the sky!
When tempests wrap the world from pole to pole,
When vivid lightnings flash and thunders roll,
Thou far above their utmost fury borne,
Look'st forth in beauty, laughing them to scorn.
But vainly now on me thy beauties blaze--
Ossian no longer can enraptured gaze!
Whether at morn, in lucid lustre gay,
On eastern clouds thy yellow tresses play,
Or else at eve, in radiant glory drest,
Thou tremblest at the portals of the west,
I see no more! But thou mayest fail at length,
Like Ossian lose thy beauty and thy strength,
Like him--but for a season--in thy sphere
To shine with splendour, then to disappear!
Thy years shall have an end, and thou no more
Bright through the world enlivening radiance pour,
But sleep within thy clouds, and fail to rise,
Heedless when Morning calls thee to the skies!
Then now exult, O Sun! and gaily shine,
While Youth and Strength and Beauty all are thine.
For Age is dark, unlovely, as the light
Shed by the Moon when clouds deform the night,
Glimmering uncertain as they hurry past.
Loud o'er the plain is heard the northern blast,
Mists shroud the hills, and 'neath the growing gloom,
The weary traveller shrinks and sighs for home.
1806.
[First published, _Atlantic Monthly_, December, 1898.][2]
FOOTNOTES:
[2] [I am indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Pierre De La Rose for sending
me a copy of the foregoing _Version of Ossian's Address to the Sun_,
which was "Privately printed at the Press of Oliver B. Graves,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, June the Tenth, MDCCCXCVIII.," and was
reprinted in the _Atlantic Monthly_ in December, 1898. A prefatory note
entitled, "From Lord Byron's Notes," is prefixed to the Version: "In
Lord Byron's copy of _The Poems of Ossian_ (printed by Dewick and
Clarke, London, 1806), which, since 1874, has been in the possession of
the Library of Harvard University as part of the Sumner Bequest. The
notes which follow appear in Byron's hand." (For the _Notes_, see the
_Atlantic Monthly_, 1898, vol. lxxxii. pp. 810-814.)
It is strange that Byron should have made two versions (for another
"version" from the Newstead MSS., see _Poetical Works_, 1898, i.
229-231) of the "Address to the Sun," which forms the conclusion of
"Carthon;" but the Harvard version appears to be genuine. It is to be
noted that Byron appended to the earlier version eighteen lines of his
own composition, by way of moral or application.]
LINES TO MR. HODGSON.
WRITTEN ON BOARD THE LISBON PACKET.
1.
HUZZA! Hodgson[3], we are going,
Our embargo's off at last;
Favourable breezes blowing
Bend the canvas o'er the mast.
From aloft the signal's streaming,
Hark! the farewell gun is fired;
Women screeching, tars blaspheming,
Tell us that our time's expired.
Here's a rascal
Come to task all,
Prying from the Custom-house;
Trunks unpacking
Cases cracking,
Not a corner for a mouse
Scapes unsearched amid the racket,
Ere we sail on board the Packet.
2.
Now our boatmen quit their mooring,
And all hands must ply the oar;
Baggage from the quay is lowering,
We're impatient, push from shore.
"Have a care! that case holds liquor--
Stop the boat--I'm sick--oh Lord!"
"Sick, Ma'am, damme, you'll be sicker,
Ere you've been an hour on board."
Thus are screaming
Men and women,
Gemmen, ladies, servants, Jacks;
Here entangling,
All are wrangling,
Stuck together close as wax.--
Such the general noise and racket,
Ere we reach the Lisbon Packet.
3.
Now we've reached her, lo! the Captain,
Gallant Kidd,[4] commands the crew;
Passengers their berths are clapt in,
Some to grumble, some to spew.
"Hey day! call you that a cabin?
Why't is hardly three feet square!
Not enough to stow Queen Mab in--
Who the deuce can harbour there?"
"Who, sir? plenty--
Nobles twenty
Did at once my vessel fill."--
"Did they? Jesus,
How you squeeze us!
Would to God they did so still!
Then I'd 'scape the heat and racket
Of the good ship, Lisbon Packet."
4.
Fletcher! Murray! Bob![5] where are you?
Stretched along the deck like logs--
Bear a hand, you jolly tar, you!
Here's a rope's end for the dogs.
Hobhouse muttering fearful curses,
As the hatchway down he rolls,
Now his breakfast, now his verses,
Vomits forth--and damns our souls.
"Here's a stanza[6]
On Braganza--
Help!"--"A couplet?"--"No, a cup
Of warm water--"
"What's the matter?"
"Zounds! my liver's coming up;
I shall not survive the racket
Of this brutal Lisbon Packet."
5.
Now at length we're off for Turkey,
Lord knows when we shall come back!
Breezes foul and tempests murky
May unship us in a crack.
But, since Life at most a jest is,
As philosophers allow,
Still to laugh by far the best is,
Then laugh on--as I do now.
Laugh at all things,
Great and small things,
Sick or well, at sea or shore;
While we're quaffing,
Let's have laughing--
Who the devil cares for more?--
Some good wine! and who would lack it,
Ev'n on board the Lisbon Packet?
Falmouth Roads, _June_ 30, 1809.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 230-232.]
FOOTNOTES:
[3] [For Francis Hodgson (1781-1852), see _Letters_, 1898, i. 195,
_note_ 1.]
[4] [Compare Peter Pindar's _Ode to a Margate Hoy_--
"Go, beauteous Hoy, in safety ev'ry inch!
That storm should wreck thee, gracious Heav'n forbid!
Whether commanded by brave Captain Finch
Or equally tremendous Captain Kidd."]
[5] [Murray was "Joe" Murray, an ancient retainer of the "Wicked Lord."
Bob was Robert Rushton, the "little page" of "Childe Harold's Good
Night." (See _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 26, _note_ 1.)]
[6] [For "the stanza," addressed to the "Princely offspring of
Braganza," published in the _Morning Post_, December 30, 1807, see
_English Bards, etc._, line 142, _note_ 1, _Poetical Works_, 1898, i.
308, 309.]
[TO DIVES.[7] A FRAGMENT.]
UNHAPPY Dives! in an evil hour
'Gainst Nature's voice seduced to deeds accurst!
Once Fortune's minion now thou feel'st her power;
Wrath's vial on thy lofty head hath burst.
In Wit, in Genius, as in Wealth the first,
How wondrous bright thy blooming morn arose!
But thou wert smitten with th' unhallowed thirst
Of Crime unnamed, and thy sad noon must close
In scorn and solitude unsought the worst of woes.
1809.
[First published, _Lord Byron's Works_, 1833, xvii. 241.]
FOOTNOTES:
[7] [Dives was William Beckford. See _Childe Harold_, Canto I. stanza
xxii. line 6, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 37, _note_ 1.]
FAREWELL PETITION TO J. C. H., ESQ^RE^.
O THOU yclep'd by vulgar sons of Men
Cam Hobhouse![8] but by wags Byzantian Ben!
Twin sacred titles, which combined appear
To grace thy volume's front, and gild its rear,
Since now thou put'st thyself and work to Sea
And leav'st all Greece to _Fletcher_[9] and to me,
Oh, hear my single muse our sorrows tell,
_One_ song for _self_ and Fletcher quite as well--
First to the _Castle_ of that man of woes
Dispatch the letter which _I must_ enclose,
And when his lone Penelope shall say
_Why, where_, and _wherefore_ doth my William stay?
Spare not to move her pity, or her pride--
By all that Hero suffered, or defied;
The _chicken's toughness_, and the _lack_ of _ale_
The _stoney mountain_ and the _miry vale_
The _Garlick_ steams, which _half_ his meals enrich,
The _impending vermin_, and the threatened _Itch_,
That _ever breaking_ Bed, beyond repair!
The hat too _old_, the coat too _cold_ to wear,
The Hunger, _which repulsed from Sally's door_
Pursues her grumbling half from shore to shore,
Be these the themes to greet his faithful Rib
So may thy pen be smooth, thy tongue be glib!
This duty done, let me in turn demand
Some friendly office in my native land,
Yet let me ponder well, before I ask,
And set thee swearing at the tedious task.
First the Miscellany![10]--to Southwell town
_Per coach_ for Mrs. _Pigot_ frank it down,
So may'st them prosper in the paths of Sale,[11]
And Longman smirk and critics cease to rail.
All hail to Matthews![12] wash his reverend feet,
And in my name the man of Method greet,--
Tell him, my Guide, Philosopher, and Friend,
Who cannot love me, and who will not mend,
Tell him, that not in vain I shall assay
To tread and trace our "old Horatian way,"[13]
And be (with prose supply my dearth of rhymes)
What better men have been in better times.
Here let me cease, for why should I prolong
My notes, and vex a _Singer_ with a _Song_?
Oh thou with pen perpetual in thy fist!
Dubbed for thy sins a stark Miscellanist,
So pleased the printer's orders to perform
For Messrs. _Longman_, _Hurst_ and _Rees_ and _Orme_.
Go--Get thee hence to Paternoster Row,
Thy patrons wave a duodecimo!
(Best form for _letters_ from a distant land,
It fits the pocket, nor fatigues the hand.)
Then go, once more the joyous work commence[14]
With stores of anecdote, and grains of sense,
Oh may Mammas relent, and Sires forgive!
And scribbling Sons grow dutiful and live!
Constantinople, _June_ 7^th^, 1810.
[First published, _Murray's Magazine_, 1887, vol. i. pp. 290, 291.]
FOOTNOTES:
[8] [For John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869), afterwards Lord Broughton de
Gyfford, see _Letters_, 1898, i. 163, _note_ i.]
[9] [Fletcher was an indifferent traveller, and sighed for "a' the
comforts of the saut-market." See Byron's letters to his mother,
November 12, 1809, June 28, 1810.--_Letters_, 1898, i. 256, 281.]
[10] [Hobhouse's Miscellany (otherwise known as the _Miss-sell-any_) was
published in 1809, under the title of _Imitations and Translations from
The Ancient and Modern Classics_. Byron contributed nine original poems.
The volume was not a success. "It foundered ... in the Gulph of
Lethe."--Letter to H. Drury, July 17, 1811, _Letters_, 1898, i. 319.]
[11] [The word "Sale" may have a double meaning. There may be an
allusion to George Sale, the Orientalist, and translator of the Koran.]
[12] ["In Matthews I have lost my 'guide, philosopher, and
friend.'"--Letter to R.C. Dallas, September 7, 1811, _Letters_, 1898,
ii. 25. (For Charles Skinner Matthews, see _Letters_, 1898, i. 150,
_note_ 3.)]
[13] [Compare--
"In short, the maxim for the amorous tribe is
Horatian, 'Medio tu tutissimus ibis.'"
_Don Juan_, Canto V. stanza xvii. lines 8, 9.
The "doctrine" is Horatian, but the words occur in Ovid, _Metam._, lib.
ii. line 137.--_Poetical Works_, 1902, vi. 273, _note_ 2.]
[14] [Hobhouse's _Journey through Albania and other Provinces of
Turkey_, 4^to^, was published by James Cawthorn, in 1813.]
TRANSLATION OF THE NURSE'S DOLE IN
THE _MEDEA_ OF EURIPIDES.
OH how I wish that an embargo
Had kept in port the good ship Argo!
Who, still unlaunched from Grecian docks,
Had never passed the Azure rocks;
But now I fear her trip will be a
Damn'd business for my Miss Medea, etc., etc.[15]
_June_, 1810.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 227.]
FOOTNOTES:
[15] ["I am just come from an expedition through the Bosphorus to
the Black Sea and the Cyanean Symplegades, up which last I scrambled
with as great risk as ever the Argonauts escaped in their hoy. You
remember the beginning of the nurse's dole in the _Medea_ [lines 1-7],
of which I beg you to take the following translation, done on the
summit;--[A 'damned business'] it very nearly was to me; for, had not
this sublime passage been in my head, I should never have dreamed of
ascending the said rocks, and bruising my carcass in honour of the
ancients."--Letter to Henry Drury, June 17, 1810, _Letters_, 1898, i.
276.
Euripides, _Medea_, lines 1-7--
[Greek: Ei)/th' ô)/phel' A)rgou~s mê\ diapta/sthai ska/phos k.t.l.]
]
MY EPITAPH.[16]
YOUTH, Nature, and relenting Jove,
To keep my lamp _in_ strongly strove;
But Romanelli was so stout,
He beat all three--and _blew_ it _out_.
_October_, 1810.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 240.]
FOOTNOTES:
[16] ["The English Consul ... forced a physician upon me, and in three
days vomited and glystered me to the last gasp. In this state I made my
epitaph--take it."--Letter to Hodgson, October 3, 1810, _Letters_, 1898,
i. 298.]
SUBSTITUTE FOR AN EPITAPH.
KIND Reader! take your choice to cry or laugh;
Here HAROLD lies--but where's his Epitaph?
If such you seek, try Westminster, and view
Ten thousand just as fit for him as you.
Athens, 1810.
[First published, _Lord Byron's Works_, 1832, ix. 4.]
EPITAPH FOR JOSEPH BLACKET, LATE
POET AND SHOEMAKER.[17]
STRANGER! behold, interred together,
The _souls_ of learning and of leather.
Poor Joe is gone, but left his _all_:
You'll find his relics in a _stall_.
His works were neat, and often found
Well stitched, and with _morocco_ bound.
Tread lightly--where the bard is laid--
He cannot mend the shoe he made;
Yet is he happy in his hole,
With verse immortal as his _sole_.
But still to business he held fast,
And stuck to Phoebus to the _last_.
Then who shall say so good a fellow
Was only "leather and prunella?"
For character--he did not lack it;
And if he did, 'twere shame to "Black-it."
Malta, _May_ 16, 1811.
[First published, _Lord Byron's Works_, 1832, ix. 10.]
FOOTNOTES:
[17] [For Joseph Blacket (1786-1810), see _Letters_, 1898, i. 314,
_note_ 2; see, too, _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 359, _note_ 1, and
441-443, _note_ 2. The _Epitaph_ is of doubtful authenticity.]
ON MOORE'S LAST OPERATIC FARCE, OR FARCICAL OPERA.[18]
GOOD plays are scarce,
So Moore writes _farce_:
The poet's fame grows brittle[i]--
We knew before
That _Little_'s Moore,
But now't is Moore that's _little_.
_September_ 14, 1811.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 295 (_note_).]
FOOTNOTES:
[i] _Is fame like his so brittle_?--[_MS_.]
[18] ["On a leaf of one of his paper books I find an epigram, written at
this time, which, though not perhaps particularly good, I consider
myself bound to insert."--Moore, _Life_, p. 137, _note_ 1. The reference
is to Moore's _M.P.; or, The Blue Stocking_, which was played for the
first time at the Lyceum Theatre, September 9, 1811. For Moore's _nom de
plume_, "The late Thomas Little, Esq.," compare Praed's _The Belle of
the Ball-Room_--
"If those bright lips had quoted Locke,
I might have thought they murmured Little."]
[R.C. DALLAS.][19]
YES! wisdom shines in all his mien,
Which would so captivate, I ween,
Wisdom's own goddess Pallas;
That she'd discard her fav'rite owl,
And take for pet a brother fowl,
Sagacious R.C. Dallas.
[First published, _Life, Writings, Opinions, etc._, 1825, ii. 192.]
FOOTNOTES:
[19] ["A person observing that Mr. Dallas looked very wise on a certain
occasion, his Lordship is said to have broke out into the following
impromptu."--_Life, Writings, Times, and Opinions of Lord Byron_, 1825,
ii. 191.]
AN ODE[20] TO THE FRAMERS OF THE FRAME BILL.[21]
1.
OH well done Lord E---- n! and better done R----r![22]
Britannia must prosper with councils like yours;
Hawkesbury, Harrowby, help you to guide her,
Whose remedy only must _kill_ ere it cures:
Those villains; the Weavers, are all grown refractory,
Asking some succour for Charity's sake--
So hang them in clusters round each Manufactory,
That will at once put an end to _mistake_.[23]
2.
The rascals, perhaps, may betake them to robbing,
The dogs to be sure have got nothing to eat--
So if we can hang them for breaking a bobbin,
'T will save all the Government's money and meat:
Men are more easily made than machinery--
Stockings fetch better prices than lives--
Gibbets on Sherwood will heighten the scenery,
Shewing how Commerce, how Liberty thrives!
3.
Justice is now in pursuit of the wretches,
Grenadiers, Volunteers, Bow-street Police,
Twenty-two Regiments, a score of Jack Ketches,
Three of the Quorum and two of the Peace;
Some Lords, to be sure, would have summoned the Judges,
To take their opinion, but that they ne'er shall,
For LIVERPOOL such a concession begrudges,
So now they're condemned by _no Judges_ at all.
4.
Some folks for certain have thought it was shocking,
When Famine appeals and when Poverty groans,
That Life should be valued at less than a stocking,
And breaking of frames lead to breaking of bones.
If it should prove so, I trust, by this token,
(And who will refuse to partake in the hope?)
That the frames of the fools may be first to be _broken_,
Who, when asked for a _remedy_, sent down a _rope_.
[First published, _Morning Chronicle, Monday, March_ 2, 1812.]
[See a _Political Ode by Lord Byron, hitherto unknown
as his production_, London, John Pearson, 46, Pall Mall,
1880, 8º. See, too, Mr. Pearson's prefatory Note, pp. 5, etc.]
FOOTNOTES:
[20] ["LORD BYRON TO EDITOR OF THE _MORNING CHRONICLE_.
Sir,--I take the liberty of sending an alteration of the two last lines
of stanza 2^d^, which I wish to run as follows:--
'Gibbets on Sherwood will _heighten_ the scenery,
Shewing how commerce, _how_ liberty thrives.'
I wish you could insert it tomorrow for a particular reason; but I feel
much obliged by your inserting it at all. Of course do _not_ put my name
to the thing--believe me,
Your obliged
and very obedient servant,
BYRON.
8, St. James's Street,
_Sunday, March_ 1, 1812."]
[21] [For Byron's maiden speech in the House of Lords, February 27,
1812, see _Letters_, 1898, ii. 424-430.]
[22] [Richard Ryder (1766-1832), second son of the first Baron Harrowby,
was Home Secretary, 1809-12.]
[23] Lord E., on Thursday night, said the riots at Nottingham arose from
a "_mistake_."
TO THE HON^BLE^ M^RS^ GEORGE LAMB.[24]
1.
The sacred song that on mine ear
Yet vibrates from that voice of thine,
I heard, before, from one so dear--
'T is strange it still appears divine.
2.
But, oh! so sweet that _look_ and _tone_
To her and thee alike is given;
It seemed as if for me alone
That _both_ had been recalled from Heaven!
3.
And though I never can redeem
The vision thus endeared to me;
I scarcely can regret my dream,
When realised again by thee.
1812.
[First published in _The Two Duchesses_, by Vere Foster,
1898, p. 374.]
FOOTNOTES:
[24] [Caroline Rosalie Adelaide St. Jules (1786-1862) married, in 1809,
the Hon. George Lamb (see _English Bards, etc_., line 55, _Poetical
Works_, 1898, i. 300, note 1), fourth son of the first Viscount
Melbourne.]
[LA REVANCHE.]
1.
There is no more for me to hope,
There is no more for thee to fear;
And, if I give my Sorrow scope,
That Sorrow thou shalt never hear.
Why did I hold thy love so dear?
Why shed for such a heart one tear?
Let deep and dreary silence be
My only memory of thee!
2.
When all are fled who flatter now,
Save thoughts which will not flatter then;
And thou recall'st the broken vow
To him who must not love again--
Each hour of now forgotten years
Thou, then, shalt number with thy tears;
And every drop of grief shall be
A vain remembrancer of me!
Undated, ?1812.
[From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. Murray,
now for the first time printed.]
TO THOMAS MOORE.
WRITTEN THE EVENING BEFORE HIS VISIT TO MR. LEIGH HUNT
IN HORSEMONGER LANE GAOL, MAY 19, 1813.
OH you, who in all names can tickle the town,
Anacreon, Tom Little, Tom Moore, or Tom Brown,--[25]
For hang me if I know of which you may most brag,
Your Quarto two-pounds, or your Two-penny Post Bag;
* * * * *
But now to my letter--to _yours_ 'tis an answer--
To-morrow be with me, as soon as you can, sir,
All ready and dressed for proceeding to spunge on
(According to compact) the wit in the dungeon--[26]
Pray Phoebus at length our political malice
May not get us lodgings within the same palace!
I suppose that to-night you're engaged with some codgers,
And for Sotheby's Blues[27] have deserted Sam Rogers;
And I, though with cold I have nearly my death got,
Must put on my breeches, and wait on the Heathcote;[28]
But to-morrow, at four, we will both play the _Scurra_,
And you'll be Catullus, the Regent Mamurra.[29]
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 401.]
FOOTNOTES:
[25] [Moore's "_Intercepted Letters; or, The Twopenny Post-Bag_, By
Thomas Brown, the Younger," was published in 1813.]
[26] [James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) was imprisoned February, 1813,
to February, 1815, for a libel on the Prince Regent, published in the
_Examiner_, March 12, 1812.--_Letters_, 1898, ii. 205-208, _note_ 1.]
[27] [For "Sotheby's Blues," see Introduction to _The Blues, Poetical
Works_, 1901, iv. 570, _et ibid_., 579, 580.]
[28] [Katherine Sophia Manners was married in 1793 to Sir Gilbert
Heathcote. See _Letters_, 1898, ii. 402, 406.]
[29] [See _Catullus_, xxix. 1-4--
"Quis hoc potest videre? quis potest pati,
Nisi impudicus et vorax et aleo,
Mamurram habere, quod Comata Gallia
Habebat uncti et ultima Britannia?" etc.]
ON LORD THURLOW'S POEMS.[30]
1.
WHEN Thurlow this damned nonsense sent,
(I hope I am not violent)
Nor men nor gods knew what he meant.
2.
And since not even our Rogers' praise
To common sense his thoughts could raise--
Why _would_ they let him print his lays?
3.
* * * * *
4.
* * * * *
5.
To me, divine Apollo, grant--O!
Hermilda's[31] first and second canto,
I'm fitting up a new portmanteau;
6.
And thus to furnish decent lining,
My own and others' bays I'm twining,--
So, gentle Thurlow, throw me thine in.
June 2, 1813.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 396.]
FOOTNOTES:
[30] [One evening, in the late spring or early summer of 1813, Byron and
Moore supped on bread and cheese with Rogers. Their host had just
received from Lord Thurlow [Edward Hovell Thurlow, 1781-1829] a copy of
his _Poems on Several Occasions_ (1813), and Byron lighted upon some
lines to Rogers, "On the Poem of Mr. Rogers, entitled 'An Epistle to a
Friend.'" The first stanza ran thus--
"When Rogers o'er this labour bent,
Their purest fire the Muses lent,
T' illustrate this sweet argument."
"Byron," says Moore, "undertook to read it aloud;--but he found it
impossible to get beyond the first two words. Our laughter had now
increased to such a pitch that nothing could restrain it. Two or three
times he began; but no sooner had the words 'When Rogers' passed his
lips, than our fit burst forth afresh,--till even Mr. Rogers himself ...
found it impossible not to join us. A day or two after, Lord Byron sent
me the following:--'My dear Moore, "When Rogers" must not see the
enclosed, which I send for your perusal.'"--_Life_, p. 181; _Letters_,
1898, ii. 211-213, _note_ 1.]
Thurlow's poems are by no means contemptible. A sonnet, "To a Bird, that
haunted the Water of Lacken, in the Winter," which Charles Lamb
transcribed in one of Coleridge's note-books, should be set over against
the absurd lines, "On the Poems of Mr. Rogers."
"O melancholy bird, a winter's day
Thou standest by the margin of the pool;
And, taught by God, dost thy whole being school
To Patience, which all evil can allay:
God has appointed thee the fish thy prey;
And giv'n thyself a lesson to the fool
Unthrifty, to submit to moral rule,
And his unthinking course by thee to weigh.
There need not schools nor the professor's chair,
Though these be good, true wisdom to impart;
He, who has not enough for these to spare
Of time, or gold, may yet amend his heart,
And teach his soul by brooks and rivers fair,
Nature is always wise in every part."
_Select Poems_, 1821, p. 90.
[See "Fragments of Criticism," _Works of Charles Lamb_, 1903, iii. 284.]
[31] [_Hermilda in Palestine_ was published in 1812, in quarto, and
twice reissued in 1813, as part of _Poems on Various Occasions_ (8vo).
The Lines upon Rogers' _Epistle to a Friend_ appeared first in the
_Gentleman's Magazine_ for April, 1813, vol. 83, p. 357, and were
reprinted in the second edition of _Poems, etc._, 1813, pp. 162, 163.
The lines in italics, which precede each stanza, are taken from the last
stanza of Lord Thurlow's poem.]
TO LORD THURLOW.[32]
1.
"_I lay my branch of laurel down_."
"_THOU_ lay thy branch of _laurel_ down!"
Why, what thou'st stole is not enow;
And, were it lawfully thine own,
Does Rogers want it most, or thou?
Keep to thyself thy withered bough,
Or send it back to Doctor Donne:[33]
Were justice done to both, I trow,
He'd have but little, and thou--none.
2.
"_Then, thus, to form Apollo's crown_."
A crown! why, twist it how you will,
Thy chaplet must be foolscap still.
When next you visit Delphi's town,
Enquire amongst your fellow-lodgers,
They'll tell you Phoebus gave his crown,
Some years before your birth, to Rogers.
3.
"_Let every other bring his own_."
When coals to Newcastle are carried,
And owls sent to Athens, as wonders,
From his spouse when the Regent's unmarried,
Or Liverpool weeps o'er his blunders;
When Tories and Whigs cease to quarrel,
When Castlereagh's wife has an heir,
Then Rogers shall ask us for laurel,
And thou shalt have plenty to spare.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 397.]
FOOTNOTES:
[32] ["On the same day I received from him the following additional
scraps ['To Lord Thurlow']. The lines in Italics are from the eulogy
that provoked his waggish comments."--_Life_, p. 181. The last stanza of
Thurlow's poem supplied the text--
"Then, thus, to form Apollo's crown,
(Let ev'ry other bring his own,)
I lay my branch of laurel down."]
[33] [Lord Thurlow affected an archaic style in his Sonnets and other
verses. In the Preface to the second edition of _Poems, etc._, he
writes, "I think that our Poetry has been continually declining since
the days of Milton and Cowley ... and that the golden age of our
language is in the reign of Queen Elizabeth."]
THE DEVIL'S DRIVE.[ii][34]
1.
THE Devil returned to Hell by two,
And he stayed at home till five;
When he dined on some homicides done in _ragoût_,
And a rebel or so in an _Irish_ stew,
And sausages made of a self-slain Jew,
And bethought himself what next to do,
"And," quoth he, "I'll take a drive.
I walked in the morning, I'll ride to-night;
In darkness my children take most delight,
And I'll see how my favourites thrive. 10
2.
"And what shall I ride in?" quoth Lucifer, then--
"If I followed my taste, indeed,
I should mount in a waggon of wounded men,
And smile to see them bleed.
But these will be furnished again and again,
And at present my purpose is speed;
To see my manor as much as I may,
And watch that no souls shall be poached away.
3.
"I have a state-coach at Carlton House,
A chariot in Seymour-place;[35] 20
But they're lent to two friends, who make me amends
By driving my favourite pace:
And they handle their reins with such a grace,
I have something for both at the end of the race.
4.
"So now for the earth to take my chance,"
Then up to the earth sprung he;
And making a jump from Moscow to France,
He stepped across the sea,
And rested his hoof on a turnpike road,
No very great way from a Bishop's abode.[36] 30
5.
But first as he flew, I forgot to say,
That he hovered a moment upon his way,
To look upon Leipsic plain;
And so sweet to his eye was its sulphury glare,
And so soft to his ear was the cry of despair,
That he perched on a mountain of slain;
And he gazed with delight from its growing height,
Nor often on earth had he seen such a sight,
Nor his work done half as well:
For the field ran so red with the blood of the dead, 40
That it blushed like the waves of Hell!
Then loudly, and wildly, and long laughed he:
"Methinks they have little need here of _me_!"
6.
Long he looked down on the hosts of each clime,
While the warriors hand to hand were--
Gaul--Austrian and Muscovite heroes sublime,
And--(Muse of Fitzgerald arise with a rhyme!)
A quantity of _Landwehr_![37]
Gladness was there,
For the men of all might and the monarchs of earth, 50
There met for the wolf and the worm to make mirth,
And a feast for the fowls of the Air!
7.
But he turned aside and looked from the ridge
Of hills along the river,
And the best thing he saw was a broken bridge,[38]
Which a Corporal chose to shiver;
Though an Emperor's taste was displeased with his haste,
The Devil he thought it clever;
And he laughed again in a lighter strain,
O'er the torrent swoln and rainy, 60
When he saw "on a fiery steed" Prince Pon,
In taking care of Number _One_--
Get drowned with a great _many_!
8.
But the softest note that soothed his ear
Was the sound of a widow sighing;
And the sweetest sight was the icy tear,
Which Horror froze in the blue eye clear
Of a maid by her lover lying--
As round her fell her long fair hair,
And she looked to Heaven with that frenzied air 70
Which seemed to ask if a God were there!
And stretched by the wall of a ruined hut,
With its hollow cheek, and eyes half shut,
A child of Famine dying:
And the carnage _begun_, when _resistance_ is done,
And the fall of the vainly flying!
9.
Then he gazed on a town by besiegers taken,
Nor cared he who were winning;
But he saw an old maid, for years forsaken,
Get up and leave her spinning; 80
And she looked in her glass, and to one that did pass,
She said--"pray are the rapes beginning?"[39]
10.
But the Devil has reached our cliffs so white,
And what did he there, I pray?
If his eyes were good, he but saw by night
What we see every day;
But he made a tour and kept a journal
Of all the wondrous sights nocturnal,
And he sold it in shares to the _Men_ of the _Row_,
Who bid pretty well--but they _cheated_ him, though! 90
11.
The Devil first saw, as he thought, the _Mail_,
Its coachman and his coat;
So instead of a pistol he cocked his tail,
And seized him by the throat;
"Aha!" quoth he, "what have we here?
'T is a new barouche, and an ancient peer!"[40]
12.
So he sat him on his box again,
And bade him have no fear,
But be true to his club, and staunch to his rein,
His brothel and his beer; 100
"Next to seeing a Lord at the Council board,
I would rather see him here."
13.
Satan hired a horse and gig
With promises to pay;
And he pawned his horns for a spruce new wig,
To redeem as he came away:
And he whistled some tune, a waltz or a jig,
And drove off at the close of day.
14.
The first place he stopped at--he heard the Psalm
That rung from a Methodist Chapel: 110
"'T is the best sound I've heard," quoth he, "since my palm
Presented Eve her apple!
When _Faith_ is all, 't is an excellent sign,
That the _Works_ and Workmen both are mine."
15.
He passed Tommy Tyrwhitt,[41] that standing jest,
To princely wit a Martyr:
But the last joke of all was by far the best,
When he sailed away with "the Garter"!
"And"--quoth Satan--"this Embassy's worthy my sight,
Should I see nothing else to amuse me to night. 120
With no one to bear it, but Thomas à Tyrwhitt,
This ribband belongs to an 'Order of Merit'!"
16.
He stopped at an Inn and stepped within
The Bar and read the "Times;"
And never such a treat, as--the epistle of one "Vetus,"[42]
Had he found save in downright crimes:
"Though I doubt if this drivelling encomiast of War
Ever saw a field fought, or felt a scar,
Yet his fame shall go farther than he can guess,
For I'll keep him a place in my _hottest Press_; 130
And his works shall be bound in Morocco _d'Enfer_,
And lettered behind with his _Nom de Guerre_."
17.
The Devil gat next to Westminster,
And he turned to "the room" of the Commons;
But he heard as he purposed to enter in there,
That "the Lords" had received a summons;
And he thought, as "a _quondam_ Aristocrat,"
He might peep at the Peers, though to _hear_ them were flat;
And he walked up the House so like one of his own,
That they say that he stood pretty near the throne. 140
18.
He saw the Lord Liverpool seemingly wise,
The Lord Westmoreland certainly silly,
And Jockey of Norfolk--a man of some size--
And Chatham, so like his friend Billy;[43]
And he saw the tears in Lord Eldon's eyes,
Because the Catholics would _not_ rise,
In spite of his prayers and his prophecies;
And he heard--which set Satan himself a staring--
A certain Chief Justice say something like _swearing_.[44]
And the Devil was shocked--and quoth he, "I must go, 150
For I find we have much better manners below.
If thus he harangues when he passes my border,
I shall hint to friend Moloch to call him to order."
19.
Then the Devil went down to the humbler House,
Where he readily found his way
As natural to him as its hole to a Mouse,
He had been there many a day;
And many a vote and soul and job he
Had bid for and carried away from the Lobby:
But there now was a "call" and accomplished debaters 160
Appeared in the glory of hats, boots and gaiters--
_Some_ paid rather more--but _all_ worse dressed
than Waiters!
20.
There was Canning for War, and Whitbread for peace,
And others as suited their fancies;
But all were agreed that our debts should increase
Excepting the Demagogue Francis.
That rogue! how could Westminster chuse him again
To leaven the virtue of these honest men!
But the Devil remained till the Break of Day
Blushed upon Sleep and Lord Castlereagh:[45] 170
Then up half the house got, and Satan got up
With the drowsy to snore--or the hungry to sup:--
But so torpid the power of some speakers, 't is said,
That they sent even him to his brimstone bed.
21.
He had seen George Rose--but George was grown dumb,
And only lied in thought![46]
And the Devil has all the pleasure to come
Of hearing him talk as he ought.
With the falsest of tongues, the sincerest of men--
His veracity were but deceit-- 180
And Nature must first have unmade him again,
Ere his breast or his face, or his tongue, or his pen,
Conceived--uttered--looked--or wrote down letters ten,
Which Truth would acknowledge complete.
22.
Satan next took the army list in hand,
Where he found a new "Field Marshal;"
And when he saw this high command
Conferred on his Highness of Cumberland,[47]
"Oh! were I prone to cavil--or were I not the Devil,
I should say this was somewhat partial; 190
Since the only wounds that this Warrior gat,
Were from God knows whom--and the Devil knows what!"
23.
He then popped his head in a royal Ball,
And saw all the Haram so hoary;
And who there besides but Corinna de Staël![48]
Turned Methodist and Tory!
"Aye--Aye"--quoth he--"'t is the way with them all,
When Wits grow tired of Glory:
But thanks to the weakness, that thus could pervert her,
Since the dearest of prizes to me's a deserter: 200
_Mem_--whenever a sudden conversion I want,
To send to the school of Philosopher Kant;
And whenever I need a critic who can gloss over
All faults--to send for Mackintosh to write up the Philosopher."[49]
24.
The Devil waxed faint at the sight of this Saint,
And he thought himself of eating;
And began to cram from a plate of ham
Wherewith a Page was retreating--
Having nothing else to do (for "the friends" each so near
Had sold all their souls long before), 210
As he swallowed down the bacon he wished himself a Jew
For the sake of another crime more:
For Sinning itself is but half a recreation,
Unless it ensures most infallible Damnation.
25.
But he turned him about, for he heard a sound
Which even his ear found faults in;
For whirling above--underneath--and around--
Were his fairest Disciples Waltzing![50]
And quoth he--"though this be--the _premier pas_ to me,
Against it I would warn all-- 220
Should I introduce these revels among my younger devils,
They would all turn perfectly carnal:
And though fond of the flesh--yet I never could bear it
Should quite in my kingdom get the upper hand of Spirit."
26.
The Devil (but 't was over) had been vastly glad
To see the new Drury Lane,
And yet he might have been rather mad
To see it rebuilt in vain;
And had he beheld their "Nourjahad,"[51]
Would never have gone again: 230
And Satan had taken it much amiss,
They should fasten such a piece on a friend of his--
Though he knew that his works were somewhat sad,
He never had found them _quite_ so bad:
For this was "the book" which, of yore, Job, sorely smitten,
Said, "Oh that _mine_ enemy, _mine_ enemy had written"!
27.
Then he found sixty scribblers in separate cells,[52]
And marvelled what they were doing,
For they looked like little fiends in their own little hells,
Damnation for others brewing-- 240
Though their paper seemed to shrink, from the heat of their ink,
They were only _coolly_ reviewing!
And as one of them wrote down the pronoun "_We_,"
"That Plural"--says Satan--"means _him_ and _me_,
With the Editor added to make up the three
Of an Athanasian Trinity,
And render the believers in our 'Articles' sensible,
How many must combine to form _one_ Incomprehensible"!
_December_ 9, 1813.
[Stanzas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, first published,
_Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 471-474: stanzas 6, 7,
9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19-27, now published for the first time from
an autograph MS. in the possession of the Earl of Ilchester.]
FOOTNOTES:
[ii] The Devil's Drive. _A Sequel to Porson's_ Devil's Walk.--[MS. H.]
[34] ["I have lately written a wild, rambling, unfinished rhapsody,
called 'The Devil's Drive,' the notion of which I took from Porson's
_Devil's Walk_."--_Journal_, December 17, 18, 1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii.
378. "Though with a good deal of vigour and imagination, it is," says
Moore, "for the most part rather clumsily executed, wanting the point
and condensation of those clever verses of Coleridge and Southey, which
Lord Byron, adopting a notion long prevalent, has attributed to Porson."
The _Devil's Walk_ was published in the _Morning Post_, September 6,
1799. It has been published under Porson's name (1830, ed. H. Montague,
illustrated by Cruikshank). (See _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 30, _note_
1.)]
[35] [Lord Yarmouth, nicknamed "Red Herrings," the eldest son of the
Regent's elderly favourite, the Marchioness of Hertford (the "Marchesa"
of the _Twopenny Post-Bag_), lived at No. 7, Seamore Place, Mayfair.
Compare Moore's "Epigram:" "'I want the Court Guide,' said my lady, 'to
look If the House, Seymour Place, be at 30 or 20,'" etc.--_Poetical
Works_, 1850, p. 165.]
[36] [The allusion may be to a case which was before the courts, the
Attorney-General _v_. William Carver and Brownlow Bishop of Winchester
(see _Morning Chronicle_, November 17, 1813). Carver held certain
premises under the Bishop of Winchester, at the entrance of Portsmouth
Harbour, which obstructed the efflux and reflux of the tide. "The fact,"
said Mr. Serjeant Lens, in opening the case for the Crown, "was of great
magnitude to the entire nation, since it effected the security, and even
the existence of one of the principal harbours of Great Britain."]
[37] [The Russian and Austrian troops at the battle of Leipsic, October
16, 1813, were, for the most part, veterans, while the Prussian
contingent included a large body of militia.]
[38] [For the incident of the "broken bridge" Byron was indebted to the
pages of the _Morning Chronicle_ of November 8, 1813, "Paris Papers,
October 30"--
"The Emperor had ordered the engineers to form fougades under the grand
bridge which is between Leipsic and Lindenau, in order to blow it up at
the latest moment, and thus to retard the march of the enemy and give
time to our baggage to file off. General Dulauloy had entrusted the
operation to Colonel Montford. The Colonel, instead of remaining on the
spot to direct it, and to give the signal, ordered a corporal and four
sappers to blow up the bridge the instant the enemy should appear. The
corporal, an ignorant fellow, and ill comprehending the nature of the
duty with which he was charged, upon hearing the first shot discharged
from the ramparts of the city, set fire to the fougades and blew up the
bridge. A part of the army was still on the other side, with a park of
80 pieces of artillery and some hundreds of waggons. The advance of this
part of the army, who were approaching the bridge, seeing it blow up,
conceived it was in the power of the enemy. A cry of dismay spread from
rank to rank. 'The enemy are close upon our rear, and the bridges are
destroyed!' The unfortunate soldiers dispersed, and endeavoured to
effect their escape as well as they could. The Duke of Tarentum swam
across the river. Prince Poniatowsky, mounted on a spirited horse,
darted into the water and appeared no more. The Emperor was not informed
of this disaster until it was too late to remedy it.... Colonel Montfort
and the corporal of the sappers have been handed over to a
court-martial."]
[39] [Compare _Don Juan_, Canto VIII. stanza cxxxii. line 4. Sir Walter
Scott (_Journal_, October 30, 1826 [1890, i. 288]), tells the same story
of "an old woman who, when Carlisle was taken by the Highlanders in
1745, chose to be particularly apprehensive of personal violence, and
shut herself up in a closet, in order that she might escape ravishment.
But no one came to disturb her solitude, and ... by and by she popped
her head out of her place of refuge with the pretty question, 'Good
folks, can you tell me when the ravishing is going to begin?'" In 1813
Byron did not know Scott, and must have stolen the jest from some older
writer. It is, probably, of untold antiquity.]
[40] [The "Four-Horse" Club, founded in 1808, was incorrectly styled the
Four-in-Hand Club, and the Barouche Club. According to the Club rules,
the barouches were "yellow-bodied, with 'dickies,' the horses bay, with
rosettes at their heads, and the harness silver-mounted. The members
wore a drab coat reaching to the ankles, with three tiers of pockets,
and mother-o'-pearl buttons as large as five-shilling pieces. The
waistcoat was blue, with yellow stripes an inch wide; breeches of plush,
with strings and rosettes to each knee; and it was _de rigueur_ that the
hat should be 3-1/2 inches deep in the crown." (See _Driving_, by the
Duke of Beaufort, K.G., 1894, pp. 251-258.)
The "ancient peer" may possibly be intended for the President of the
Club, Philip Henry, fifth Earl of Chesterfield (1755-1815), who was a
member of the Privy Council, and had been Postmaster-General and Master
of the Horse.]
[41] [Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt (_circ_. 1762-1833) was the son of the Rev.
Edmund Tyrwhitt, Rector of Wickham Bishops, etc., and nephew of Thomas
Tyrwhitt, the editor of the _Canterbury Tales_. He was Private Secretary
to the Prince of Wales, auditor of the Duchy of Cornwall (1796), and
Lord Warden of the Stannaries (1805). He was knighted May 8, 1812. He
was sent in the following year in charge of the Garter mission to the
Czar, and on that occasion was made a Knight of the Imperial Order of
St. Anne, First Class. He held the office of Gentleman Usher of the
Black Rod, 1812-1832. "Tommy Tyrwhitt" was an important personage at
Carlton House, and shared with Colonel McMahon the doubtful privilege of
being a confidential servant of the Prince Regent. Compare Letter III.
of Moore's _Twopenny Post-Bag_, 1813, p. 12. "From G.R. to the E. of
Y----th."
"I write this in bed while my whiskers are airing,
And M--c has a sly dose of jalap preparing
For poor T--mm--y T--rr--t at breakfast to quaff--
As I feel I want something to give me a laugh,
And there's nothing so good as old T--mm--y kept close
To his Cornwall accounts, after taking a dose!"
See _Gentleman's Magazine_, March, 1833, vol. 103, pt. i. pp. 275, 276.]
[42] ["Vetus" [Edward Sterling] contributed a series of letters to the
_Times_, 1812, 1813. They were afterwards republished. Vetus was not a
Little Englander, and his political sentiments recall the _obiter dicta_
of contemporary patriots; _e.g._ "the only legitimate basis for a
treaty, if not on the part of the Continental Allies, at least for
England herself [is] that she should conquer all she can, and keep all
she conquers. This is not by way of retaliation, however just, upon so
obdurate and rapacious an enemy--but as an indispensable condition of
her own safety and existence." The letters were reviewed under the
heading of "Illustrations of Vetus," in the _Morning Chronicle_,
December 2, 10, 16, 18; 1813. The reviewer and Byron did not take the
patriotic view of the situation.]
[43] [Robert Banks Jenkinson (1770-1828), second Earl of Liverpool, on
the assassination of Perceval, became Prime Minister, June 7, 1812; John
Fane (1759-1841), tenth Earl of Westmoreland, was Lord Privy Seal,
1798-1827; Charles Howard (1746-1815), eleventh Duke of Norfolk, known
as "Jockey of Norfolk," was a Protestant and a Liberal, and at one time
a friend of the Prince of Wales. Wraxall, _Posthumous Memoirs_, 1836, i.
29, says that "he might have been mistaken for a grazier or a butcher by
his dress and appearance." He figures _largely_ in Gillray, see _e.g._
"Meeting of the Moneyed Interest," December, 1798. John Pitt
(1756-1835), second Earl of Chatham, the hero of the abortive Walcheren
expedition, had been made a general in the army January 1, 1812. He
"inherited," says Wraxall, _ibid._, iii. 129, "his illustrious father's
form and figure; but not his mind."]
[44] [Edward Law (1750-1818), first Baron Ellenborough, Lord Chief
Justice of the King's Bench, 1802-18, was given to the use of strong
language. His temper (see Moore's "Sale of the Tools") was "none of the
best." On one occasion, speaking in the House of Lords (March 22, 1813)
with regard to the "delicate investigation," he asserted that the
accusation ["that the persons intrusted had thought fit to fabricate an
unauthorized document"] "was as false as hell;" and by way of protest
against the tedious harangues of old Lord Darnley, "I am answerable to
God for my time, and what account can I give at the day of judgment if I
stay here longer?"]
[45] [Compare Moore's "Insurrection of the Papers"--
"Last night I toss'd and turn'd in bed,
But could not sleep--at length I said,
'I'll think of Viscount C--stl--r--gh,
And of his speeches--that's the way.'"]
[46] [George Rose (1744-1818) was at this time Treasurer of the Navy.
Wraxall, who quotes the "Probationary Odes" with regard to his alleged
duplicity, testifies that he "knew him well in his official capacity,
during at least twelve years, and never found him deficient in honour or
sincerity" (_Posthumous Memoirs_, 1836, i. 148). Moore ("Parody of a
Celebrated Letter") makes the Regent conceive how shocked the king would
be to wake up sane and find "that R--se was grown honest, or
W--stm--rel--nd wiser."]
[47] [Ernest Augustus (1771-1851), Duke of Cumberland and King of
Hanover, fifth son of George III., was gazetted as Field-Marshal
November 27, 1813. His "wounds," which, according to the Duke's sworn
testimony, were seventeen in number, were inflicted during an encounter
with his valet, Joseph Sellis (? Sélis), a Piedmontese, who had
attempted to assassinate the Prince (June 1, 1810), and, shortly
afterwards, was found with his throat cut. A jury of Westminster
tradesmen brought in a verdict of _felo de se_ against Sellis. The event
itself and the trial before the coroner provoked controversy and the
grossest scandal. The question is discussed and the Duke exonerated of
the charges brought against him, by J.H. Jesse, _Memoirs, etc., of
George III._, 1864, iii. 545, 546, and by George Rose, _Diaries, etc._,
1860, ii. 437-446. The scandal was revived in 1832 by the publication of
a work entitled _The Authentic Memoirs of the Court of England for the
last Seventy Years._ The printer and publisher of the work was found
guilty. (See _The Trial of Josiah Phillips for a Libel on the Duke of
Cumberland_, 1833.)]
[48] ["At half-past nine [Wednesday, December 8, 1813] there was a grand
dress party at Carlton House, at which her Majesty and the Prince Regent
most graciously received the following distinguished characters from the
Russian Court, viz. the Count and Countess Leiven, Mad. La Barrone
(_sic_) de Staël, Monsieur de Staël," etc.--_Morning Chronicle_,
December 10, 1813.]
[49] [In the review of Madame de Staël's _De L'Allemagne_ (_Edinburgh
Review_, October, 1813, vol. 22, pp. 198-238), Sir James Mackintosh
enlarged upon and upheld the "opinions of Kant" as creative and seminal
in the world of thought. In the same article he passes in review the
systems of Hobbes, Paley, Bentham, Reid, etc., and finds words of praise
and admiration for each in turn. See, too, a passage (p. 226) in which
he alludes to Coleridge as a living writer, whose "singular character
and unintelligible style" might, in any other country but England, have
won for him attention if not approval. His own "conversion" from the
extreme liberalism of the _Vindiciæ Gallicæ_ of 1791 to the philosophic
conservatism of the _Introductory Discourse_ (1798) to his lecture on
_The Law of Nature and Nations_, was regarded with suspicion by
Wordsworth and Coleridge, who, afterwards, were still more effectually
"converted" themselves.]
[50] [See Introduction to _The Waltz, Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 475.]
[51] [_Illusion, or the Trances of Nourjahad_, a melodrama founded on
_The History of Nourjahad_, By the Editor of Sidney Bidulph (Mrs.
Frances Sheridan, _née_ Chamberlaine, 1724-1766), was played for the
first time at Drury Lane Theatre, November 25, 1813. Byron was
exceedingly indignant at being credited with the authorship or
adaptation. (See Letter to Murray, November 27, 1813, _Letters_, 1898,
ii. 288, _note_ 1.) Miss Sophia Lee, who wrote some of the _Canterbury
Tales_, "made a very elegant musical drama of it" (_Memoirs of Mrs. F.
Sheridan_, by Alicia Lefanu, 1824, p. 296); but this was not the
_Nourjahad_ of Drury Lane.]
[52] [Millbank Penitentiary, which was built in the form of a pentagon,
was finally taken in hand in the spring of 1813. Solitary confinement in
the "cells" was, at first, reserved as a punishment for
misconduct.--_Memorials of Millbank_, by Arthur Griffiths, 1875, i. 57.]
WINDSOR POETICS.
LINES COMPOSED ON THE OCCASION OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
THE PRINCE REGENT BEING SEEN STANDING BETWEEN
THE COFFINS OF HENRY VIII. AND CHARLES I.,
IN THE ROYAL VAULT AT WINDSOR.
FAMED for contemptuous breach of sacred ties,
By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies;
Between them stands another sceptred thing--
It moves, it reigns--in all but name, a king:
Charles to his people, Henry to his wife,
--In him the double tyrant starts to life:
Justice and Death have mixed their dust in vain,
Each royal Vampire wakes to life again.
Ah, what can tombs avail!--since these disgorge
The blood and dust of both--to mould a George.[53]
[First published, _Poetical Works_, Paris, 1819, vi. 125.]
[ANOTHER VERSION.]
ON A ROYAL VISIT TO THE VAULTS.[54]
[OR CAESAR'S DISCOVERY OF C.I. AND H. 8. IN YE SAME VAULT.]
FAMED for their civil and domestic quarrels
See heartless Henry lies by headless Charles;
Between them stands another sceptred thing,
It lives, it reigns--"aye, every inch a king."
Charles to his people, Henry to his wife,
In him the double tyrant starts to life:
Justice and Death have mixed their dust in vain.
The royal Vampires join and rise again.
What now can tombs avail, since these disgorge
The blood and dirt[55] of both to mould a George!
FOOTNOTES:
[53] ["I cannot conceive how the _Vault_ has got about; but so it is. It
is too _farouche_; but truth to say, my satires are not very
playful."--Letter to Moore, March 12, 1814, _Letters_, 1899, iii. 57-58.
Moore had written to him, "Your lines about the bodies of Charles and
Henry are, I find, circulated with wonderful avidity; even some clods in
this neighbourhood have had a copy sent to them by some 'young ladies in
town.'"--_Ibid_., p. 57, _note_ 3.
The discovery "that King Charles I. was buried in the vault of King
Henry VIII.," was made on completing the mausoleum which George III.
caused to be built in the tomb-house. The Prince Regent was informed of
the circumstance, and on April 1, 1813, the day after the funeral of his
mother-in-law, the Duchess of Brunswick, he superintended in person the
opening of the leaden coffin, which bore the inscription, "King Charles,
1648" (_sic_). See _An Account of what appeared on Opening the Coffin of
King Charles the First_, by Sir H. Halford, Bart., 1813, pp. 6, 7.
Cornelia Knight, in her _Autobiography_ (1861, i. 227), notes that the
frolic prince, the "Adonis of fifty," who was in a good humour, and "had
given to Princess Charlotte the centre sapphire of Charles's crown,"
acted "the manner of decapitation on my shoulders." He had "forgotten"
Cromwell, who, as Lord Auchinleck reminded Dr. Johnson, had "gart kings
ken that they had a _lith_ in their neck!"]
[54] [From an autograph MS. in the possession of the Hon. Mrs. Norbury.
The first wrapper has written upon it, "The original Impromptu within is
in the handwriting of the noble author Lord Byron, given to Mr. Norbury
[private secretary to Lord Granville] by Mr. Dallas, his Lordship's
valued relative."
Second wrapper, "Autograph of Lord Byron--tres précieux."
Third (outside) wrapper, "Autographe célèbre de Lord Byron."]
[55][
[Greek: Pêlòn ai(/mati pephyramhenon]
"Clay kneaded with blood."
Suetonius, in _Tiberium_, cap. 57.]
ICH DIEN.
FROM this emblem what variance your motto evinces,
For the _Man_ is his country's--the Arms are the Prince's!
?1814.
[From an autograph MS. in the possession of
Mr. A.H. Hallam Murray, now for the first time printed.]
CONDOLATORY ADDRESS
TO SARAH COUNTESS OF JERSEY, ON THE PRINCE REGENT'S
RETURNING HER PICTURE TO MRS. MEE.[56]
WHEN the vain triumph of the imperial lord,
Whom servile Rome obeyed, and yet abhorred,
Gave to the vulgar gaze each glorious bust,
That left a likeness of the brave, or just;
What most admired each scrutinising eye
Of all that decked that passing pageantry?
What spread from face to face that wondering air?
The thought of Brutus[57]--for his was not there!
That absence proved his worth,--that absence fixed
His memory on the longing mind, unmixed; 10
And more decreed his glory to endure,
Than all a gold Colossus could secure.
If thus, fair Jersey, our desiring gaze
Search for thy form, in vain and mute amaze,
Amidst those pictured charms, whose loveliness,
Bright though they be, thine own had rendered less:
If he, that VAIN OLD MAN, whom truth admits
Heir of his father's crown, and of his wits,
If his corrupted eye, and withered heart,
Could with thy gentle image bear to part; 20
That tasteless shame be _his_, and ours the grief,
To gaze on Beauty's band without its chief:
Yet Comfort still one selfish thought imparts,
We lose the portrait, but preserve our hearts.
What can his vaulted gallery now disclose?
A _garden_ with all flowers--except the rose;--
A _fount_ that only wants its living stream;
A _night_, with every star, save Dian's beam.
Lost to our eyes the present forms shall be,
That turn from tracing them to dream of thee; 30
And more on that recalled resemblance pause,
Than all he _shall_ not force on our applause.
Long may thy yet meridian lustre shine,
With all that Virtue asks of Homage thine:
The symmetry of youth--the grace of mien--
The eye that gladdens--and the brow serene;
The glossy darkness of that clustering hair,[58]
Which shades, yet shows that forehead more than fair!
Each glance that wins us, and the life that throws
A spell which will not let our looks repose, 40
But turn to gaze again, and find anew
Some charm that well rewards another view.
These are not lessened, these are still as bright,
Albeit too dazzling _for a dotard's sight_;
And those must wait till ev'ry charm is gone,
To please the paltry heart that pleases none;--
That dull cold sensualist, whose sickly eye
In envious dimness passed thy portrait by;
Who racked his little spirit to combine
Its hate of _Freedom's_ loveliness, and _thine_. 50
_May_ 29, 1814.
[First published in _The Champion_, July 31, 1814.]
FOOTNOTES:
[56] ["The gentlemen of the _Champion_, and Perry, have got hold (I know
not how) of the condolatory Address to Lady Jersey on the
picture-abduction by our Regent, and have published them--with my name,
too, smack--without even asking leave, or inquiring whether or no! Damn
their impudence, and damn every thing. It has put me out of patience,
and so, I shall say no more about it."--Letter to Moore, August 3, 1814,
_Letters_, 1899, iii. 118. For Byron's letter to Lady Jersey, of May 29,
1814, and a note from her with reference to a lost(?) copy of the
verses, _vide ibid_., p. 85. Mrs. Anne Mee (1775?-1851) was a
miniature-painter, who was employed by the Prince Regent to take the
portraits of fashionable beauties.]
[57] [Compare _Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza lix. line 3, _Poetical
Works_, 1899, ii. 374, _note_ 2.]
[58] [See _Conversations ... with the Countess of Blessington_, 1834,
p. 50.]
[Illustration: ANNESLEY HALL.]
FRAGMENT OF AN EPISTLE TO THOMAS MOORE.
"WHAT say _I_?"--not a syllable further in prose;
I'm your man "of all measures," dear Tom,--so here goes!
Here goes, for a swim on the stream of old Time,
On those buoyant supporters, the bladders of rhyme.
If our weight breaks them down, and we sink in the flood,
We are smothered, at least, in respectable mud,
Where the divers of Bathos lie drowned in a heap,
And Southey's last Pæan has pillowed his sleep;
That _Felo de se_ who, half drunk with his Malmsey,
Walked out of his depth and was lost in a calm sea, 10
Singing "Glory to God" in a spick and span stanza,
The like (since Tom Sternhold was choked) never man saw.[59]
The papers have told you, no doubt, of the fusses,
The fêtes, and the gapings to get at these Russes,[60]--
Of his Majesty's suite, up from coachman to Hetman,--
And what dignity decks the flat face of the great man.
I saw him, last week, at two balls and a party,--
For a Prince, his demeanour was rather too hearty.
You know, _we_ are used to quite different graces,
* * * * *
The Czar's look, I own, was much brighter and brisker, 20
But then he is sadly deficient in whisker;
And wore but a starless blue coat, and in kersey-
mere breeches whisked round, in a waltz with the Jersey,[61]
Who, lovely as ever, seemed just as delighted
With Majesty's presence as those she invited.
* * * * *
* * * * *
_June_, 1814.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 561, 562 (note).]
FOOTNOTES:
[59] [The two first stanzas of Southey's "_Carmen Triumphale_, for the
Commencement of the Year 1814," end with the line--
"Glory to God--Deliverance for Mankind!"]
[60] ["The newspapers will tell you all that is to be told of emperors,
etc. They have dined, and supped, and shown their flat faces in all
thoroughfares and several saloons."--Letter to Moore, June 14, 1814,
_Letters_, 1899, iii. 93, 94.
From June 6 to June 27, 1814, the Emperor of Russia, and the King of
Prussia were in England. Huge crowds watched all day and night outside
the Pulteney Hotel (105, Piccadilly), where the Emperor of Russia
stayed. Among the foreigners in London were Nesselrode, Metternich,
Blücher, and Platoff, Hetman of the Cossacks. The two latter were the
heroes of the mob. _Ibid_., p. 93, _note_ 1.]
[61] ["The Emperor," says Lady Vernon (_Journal of Mary Frampton_, pp.
225, 226), "is fond of dancing.... He waltzed with Lady Jersey, whom he
admires, to the great discomposure of the Regent, who has quarrelled
with her."]
ANSWER TO----'S PROFESSIONS OF AFFECTION.
IN hearts like thine ne'er may I hold a place
Till I renounce all sense, all shame, all grace--
That seat,--like seats, the bane of Freedom's realm,
But dear to those presiding at the helm--
Is basely purchased, not with gold alone;
Add Conscience, too, this bargain is your own--
'T is thine to offer with corrupting art
The _rotten borough_[62] of the human heart.
?1814.
[From an autograph MS., now for the first time printed.]
FOOTNOTES:
[62] [The phrase, "rotten borough," was used by Sir F. Burdett,
_Examiner_, October 12, 1812.]
ON NAPOLEON'S ESCAPE FROM ELBA.[63]
ONCE fairly set out on his party of pleasure,
Taking towns at his liking, and crowns at his leisure,
From Elba to Lyons and Paris he goes,
Making _balls for_ the ladies, and _bows to_ his foes.
_March 27, 1815._
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, i. 611.]
FOOTNOTES:
[63] [It may be taken for granted that the "source" of this epigram was
a paragraph in the _Morning Chronicle_ of March 27, 1815: "In the
_Moniteur_ of Thursday we find the Emperor's own account of his _jaunt_
from the Island of Elba to the palace of the Thuilleries. It seems
certainly more like a jaunt of pleasure than the progress of an invader
through a country to be gained."]
ENDORSEMENT TO THE DEED OF SEPARATION,
IN THE APRIL OF 1816.
A YEAR ago you swore, fond she!
"To love, to honour," and so forth:
Such was the vow you pledged to me,
And here's exactly what 't is worth.
[First published, _Poetical Works_, 1831, vi. 454.]
[TO GEORGE ANSON BYRON(?)[64]]
1.
AND, dost thou ask the reason of my sadness?
Well, I will tell it thee, unfeeling boy!
'Twas ill report that urged my brain to madness,
'Twas thy tongue's venom poisoned all my joy.
2.
The sadness which thou seest is not sorrow;
My wounds are far too deep for simple grief;
The heart thus withered, seeks in vain to borrow
From calm reflection, comfort or relief.
3.
The arrow's flown, and dearly shalt thou rue it;
No mortal hand can rid me of my pain:
My heart is pierced, but thou canst not subdue it--
Revenge is left, and is not left in vain.
?1816.
[First published, _Nicnac_, March 25, 1823.]
FOOTNOTES:
[64] ["A short time before Lord Byron quitted England, in 1816, he
addressed these lines to an individual by whom he deemed himself
injured; they are but little known."--_Nicnac_, March 25, 1823.]
SONG FOR THE LUDDITES.[65]
1.
AS the Liberty lads o'er the sea
Bought their freedom, and cheaply, with blood,
So we, boys, we
Will _die_ fighting, or _live_ free,
And down with all kings but King Ludd!
2.
When the web that we weave is complete,
And the shuttle exchanged for the sword,
We will fling the winding sheet
O'er the despot at our feet,
And dye it deep in the gore he has poured.
3.
Though black as his heart its hue,
Since his veins are corrupted to mud,
Yet this is the dew
Which the tree shall renew
Of Liberty, planted by Ludd!
December 24, 1816.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 58.]
FOOTNOTES:
[65] [The term "Luddites" dates from 1811, and was applied first to
frame-breakers, and then to the disaffected in general. It was derived
from a half-witted lad named Ned Lud, who entered a house in a fit of
passion, and destroyed a couple of stocking-frames. The song was an
impromptu, enclosed in a letter to Moore of December 24, 1816. "I have
written it principally," he says, "to shock your neighbour [Hodgson?]
who is all clergy and loyalty--mirth and innocence--milk and water." See
_Letters_, 1900, iv. 30; and for General Lud and "Luddites," see
_Letters_, 1898, ii. 97, note 1.]
TO THOMAS MOORE.
What are you doing now,
Oh Thomas Moore?
What are you doing now,
Oh Thomas Moore?
Sighing or suing now,
Rhyming or wooing now,
Billing or cooing now,
Which, Thomas Moore?
But the Carnival's coming,
Oh Thomas Moore!
The Carnival's coming,
Oh Thomas Moore!
Masking and humming,
Fifing and drumming,
Guitarring and strumming,
Oh Thomas Moore!
December 24, 1816.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 58, 59.]
TO MR. MURRAY.
TO hook the Reader, you, John Murray,
Have published "Anjou's Margaret,"[66]
Which won't be sold off in a hurry
(At least, it has not been as yet);
And then, still further to bewilder him,
Without remorse, you set up "Ilderim;"[67]
So mind you don't get into debt,--
Because--as how--if you should fail,
These books would be but baddish bail.
And mind you do _not_ let escape
These rhymes to _Morning Post_ or Perry,
Which would be _very_ treacherous--_very_,
And get me into such a scrape!
For, firstly, I should have to sally,
All in my little boat, against a _Galley_;
And, should I chance to slay the Assyrian wight,
Have next to combat with the female Knight:
And pricked to death expire upon her needle,
A sort of end which I should take indeed ill!
March 25, 1817.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 91.]
FOOTNOTES:
[66] [_Margaret of Anjou_, by Margaret Holford, 1816.]
[67] [_Ilderim, a Syrian Tale_, by H. Gaily Knight, 1816.]
VERSICLES.
I READ the "Christabel;"[68]
Very well:
I read the "Missionary;"[69]
Pretty--very:
I tried at "Ilderim;"
Ahem!
I read a sheet of "Marg'ret of _Anjou_;"
_Can you_?
I turned a page of Webster's "Waterloo;"[70]
Pooh! pooh!
I looked at Wordsworth's milk-white "Rylstone Doe;"[71]
Hillo!
I read "Glenarvon," too, by Caro Lamb;[72]
God damn!
March 25, 1817.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 87.]
FOOTNOTES:
[68] [_Christabel, etc._, by S.T. Coleridge, 1816.]
[69] [_The Missionary of the Andes, a Poem_, by W.L. Bowles, 1815.]
[70] [_Waterloo and other Poems_, by J. Wedderburn Webster, 1816.]
[71] [_The White Doe of Rylstone, or the Fate of the Nortons, a Poem_,
by W. Wordsworth, 1815.]
[72] [_Glenarvon, a Novel_ [by Lady Caroline Lamb], 1816.]
QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE PRIUS DEMENTAT.[73]
God maddens him whom't is his will to lose,
And gives the choice of death or phrenzy--choose.
[First published, _Letters_, 1900, iv. 93.]
FOOTNOTES:
[73] [_À propos_ of Maturin's tragedy, _Manuel_ (_vide post_, p. 48,
_note_ 1), Byron "does into English" the Latin proverb by way of
contrast to the text, "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth; blessed be
the Name of the Lord" (Letter to Murray, April 2, 1817).]
TO THOMAS MOORE.
1.
My boat is on the shore,
And my bark is on the sea;
But, before I go, Tom Moore,
Here's a double health to thee!
2.
Here's a sigh to those who love me,
And a smile to those who hate;
And, whatever sky's above me,
Here's a heart for every fate.
3.
Though the Ocean roar around me,
Yet it still shall bear me on;
Though a desert shall surround me,
It hath springs that may be won.
4.
Were't the last drop in the well,
As I gasped upon the brink,
Ere my fainting spirit fell,
'T is to thee that I would drink.
5.
With that water, as this wine,
The libation I would pour
Should be--peace with thine and mine,
And a health to thee, Tom Moore.[74]
July, 1817.
[First published, _Waltz_, London, W. Benbow, 1821, p. 29.]
FOOTNOTES:
[74] ["This should have been written fifteen months ago; the first
stanza was."--Letter to Moore, July 10, 1817.]
EPISTLE FROM MR. MURRAY TO DR. POLIDORI.[75]
DEAR Doctor, I have read your play,
Which is a good one in its way,--
Purges the eyes, and moves the bowels,
And drenches handkerchiefs like towels
With tears, that, in a flux of grief,
Afford hysterical relief
To shattered nerves and quickened pulses,
Which your catastrophe convulses.
I like your moral and machinery;
Your plot, too, has such scope for Scenery! 10
Your dialogue is apt and smart;
The play's concoction full of art;
Your hero raves, your heroine cries,
All stab, and every body dies.
In short, your tragedy would be
The very thing to hear and see:
And for a piece of publication,
If I decline on this occasion,
It is not that I am not sensible
To merits in themselves ostensible, 20
But--and I grieve to speak it--plays
Are drugs--mere drugs, Sir--now-a-days.
I had a heavy loss by _Manuel_--[76]
Too lucky if it prove not annual,--
And Sotheby, with his _Orestes_,[77]
(Which, by the way, the old Bore's best is),
Has lain so very long on hand,
That I despair of all demand;
I've advertised, but see my books,
Or only watch my Shopman's looks;-- 30
Still _Ivan_, _Ina_,[78] and such lumber,
My back-shop glut, my shelves encumber.
There's Byron too, who once did better,
Has sent me, folded in a letter,
A sort of--it's no more a drama
Than _Darnley_, _Ivan_, or _Kehama_;
So altered since last year his pen is,
I think he's lost his wits at Venice.
* * * * *
* * * * *
In short, Sir, what with one and t' other,
I dare not venture on another. 40
I write in haste; excuse each blunder;
The Coaches through the street so thunder!
My room's so full--we've Gifford here
Reading MS., with Hookham Frere,
Pronouncing on the nouns and particles,
Of some of our forthcoming Articles.
The _Quarterly_--Ah, Sir, if you
Had but the Genius to review!--
A smart Critique upon St. Helena,
Or if you only would but tell in a 50
Short compass what--but to resume;
As I was saying, Sir, the Room--
The Room's so full of wits and bards,
Crabbes, Campbells, Crokers, Freres, and Wards
And others, neither bards nor wits:
My humble tenement admits
All persons in the dress of Gent.,
From Mr. Hammond to Dog Dent.[79]
A party dines with me to-day,
All clever men, who make their way: 60
Crabbe, Malcolm,[80] Hamilton,[81] and Chantrey,
Are all partakers of my pantry.
They're at this moment in discussion
On poor De Staël's late dissolution.
Her book,[82] they say, was in advance--
Pray Heaven, she tell the truth of France!
'T is said she certainly was married
To Rocca, and had twice miscarried,
No--not miscarried, I opine,--
But brought to bed at forty-nine. 70
Some say she died a Papist; some
Are of opinion that's a Hum;
I don't know that--the fellows Schlegel,[83]
Are very likely to inveigle
A dying person in compunction
To try th' extremity of Unction.
But peace be with her! for a woman
Her talents surely were uncommon,
Her Publisher (and Public too)
The hour of her demise may rue-- 80
For never more within his shop he--
Pray--was not she interred at Coppet?
Thus run our time and tongues away;--
But, to return, Sir, to your play:
Sorry, Sir, but I cannot deal,
Unless 't were acted by O'Neill.
My hands are full--my head so busy,
I'm almost dead--and always dizzy;
And so, with endless truth and hurry,
Dear Doctor, I am yours, 90
JOHN MURRAY.
August 21, 1817.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 139-141.
Lines 67-82 first published, _Letters_, 1900, iv. 161.]
FOOTNOTES:
[75] ["By the way," writes Murray, Aug. 5, 1817 (_Memoir, etc._, i.
386), "Polidori has sent me his tragedy! Do me the kindness to send by
return of post a _delicate_ declension of it, which I engage faithfully
to copy."
"I never," said Byron, "was much more disgusted with any human
production than with the eternal nonsense, and _tracasseries_, and
emptiness, and ill-humour, and vanity of this young person; but he has
some talent, and is a man of honour, and has dispositions of amendment.
Therefore use your interest for him, for he is improved and improvable;"
and, in a letter to Murray, Aug. 21, 1817, "You want a 'civil and
delicate declension' for the medical tragedy? Take it."--For J.W.
Polidori (1795-1821), see _Letters_, 1899, iii, 284 _note_ I.]
[76] [Maturin's second tragedy, _Manuel_, produced at Drury Lane, March
8, 1817, with Kean as "Manuel Count Valdis, failed, and after five
nights was withdrawn." It was published in 1817. "It is," says Byron
(letter to Murray, June 14, 1817), "the absurd work of a clever
man."--_Letters_, 1900, iv. 134, and _note_ I.]
[77] [Sotheby published, in 1814, _Five Tragedies_, viz. "The Confession,"
"Orestes," "Ivan," "The Death of Darnley," and "Zamorin and Zama."]
[78] [_Ina, A Tragedy_, by Mrs. Wilmot [Barberina Ogle (1768-1854),
daughter of Sir Chaloner Ogle], afterwards Lady Dacre, was produced at
Drury Lane, April 22, 1815. Her "tragedy," writes Byron to Moore, April
23, 1815, "was last night damned." See _Letters_, 1898, ii. 332, _note_
3, etc.; _ibid._, 1899, iii. 195, _note_ I.]
[79] [George Hammond (1763-1853) was a distinguished diplomatist, who
twice (1795-1806 and 1807-1809) held the office of Under-secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs. He is associated with the foundation of the
_Anti-Jacobin_ and the _Quarterly Review_. In the drawing-room of
Albemarle Street, he was Murray's "chief 4-o'clock man," until his
official duties compelled him to settle at Paris.--_Letters_, 1900, iv.
160, _note_ 1.
John Dent, M.P., a banker, was nicknamed "Dog Dent" because he was
concerned in the introduction of the Dog-tax Bill in 1796. In 1802 he
introduced a Bill to abolish bull-baiting.--_Ibid_]
[80] [Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833), soldier, administrator, and
diplomatist, published (January, 1815) his _History of
Persia.--Letters_, 1899, iii. 113, _note_ 1.]
[81] [For "Dark Hamilton," W.R. Hamilton (1777-1859), see _Childe
Harold_, Canto II. stanza xiii. _var_. I, _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii.
108, _note_ 1. Lines 61, 62 were added October 12, 1817.]
[82] [Madame de Staël's _Considérations sur la Révolution Française_ was
offered to Murray in June, 1816 (_Memoir, etc., 1891_, i. 316), and the
sum of £4000 asked for the work. During the negotiations, Madame de
Staël died (July 14, 1817), and the book was eventually published by
Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock.--_Letters_, 1900, iv. 94, _note_.]
[83] [Byron and the elder Schlegel met at Copet, in 1816, but they did
not take to each other. Byron "would not flatter him," perhaps because
he did not appreciate or flatter Byron.]
EPISTLE TO MR. MURRAY.
1.
MY dear Mr. Murray,
You're in a damned hurry
To set up this ultimate Canto;[84]
But (if they don't rob us)
You'll see Mr. Hobhouse
Will bring it safe in his portmanteau.
2.
For the Journal you hint of,[85]
As ready to print off,
No doubt you do right to commend it;
But as yet I have writ off
The devil a bit of
Our "Beppo:"--when copied, I'll send it.
3.
In the mean time you've "Galley"[86]
Whose verses all tally,
Perhaps you may say he's a Ninny,
But if you abashed are
Because of _Alashtar_,
He'll piddle another _Phrosine_.[87]
4.
Then you've Sotheby's Tour,--[88]
No great things, to be sure,--
You could hardly begin with a less work;
For the pompous rascallion,
Who don't speak Italian
Nor French, must have scribbled by guess-work.
5.
No doubt he's a rare man
Without knowing German
Translating his way up Parnassus,
And now still absurder
He meditates Murder
As you'll see in the trash he calls _Tasso's_.
6.
But you've others his betters
The real men of letters
Your Orators--Critics--and Wits--
And I'll bet that your Journal
(Pray is it diurnal?)
Will pay with your luckiest hits.
7.
You can make any loss up
With "Spence"[89] and his gossip,
A work which must surely succeed;
Then Queen Mary's Epistle-craft,[90]
With the new "Fytte" of "Whistlecraft,"
Must make people purchase and read.
8.
Then you've General Gordon,[91]
Who girded his sword on,
To serve with a Muscovite Master,
And help him to polish
A nation so owlish,
They thought shaving their beards a disaster.
9.
For the man, "_poor and shrewd_,"[92]
With whom you'd conclude
A compact without more delay,
Perhaps some such pen is
Still extant in Venice;
But please, Sir, to mention _your pay_.
10.
Now tell me some news
Of your friends and the Muse,
Of the Bar, or the Gown, or the House,
From Canning, the tall wit,
To Wilmot,[93] the small wit,
Ward's creeping Companion and _Louse_,
11.
Who's so damnably bit
With fashion and Wit,
That he crawls on the surface like Vermin,
But an Insect in both,--
By his Intellect's growth,
Of what size you may quickly determine.[94]
Venice, _January_ 8, 1818.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 156, 157;
stanzas 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, first published, _Letters_, 1900,
iv. 191-193.]
FOOTNOTES:
[84] [The Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_.]
[85] [Murray bought a half-share in _Blackwood's Edinburgh Monthly
Magazine_ in August, 1818, and remained its joint proprietor till
December, 1819, when it became the property of William Blackwood. But
perhaps the reference is to Byron's Swiss Journal of September, 1816.]
[86] [Henry Gaily Knight (1786-1846), who was a contemporary of Byron at
Trinity College, Cambridge, was a poetaster, and, afterwards, a writer
of works on architecture. His Oriental verses supplied Byron with a
subject for more than one indifferent _jeu d'esprit_.]
[87] [_Phrosyne_, a Grecian tale, and _Alashtar_, an Arabian tale, were
published in 1817. In a letter to Murray, September 4, 1817, Byron
writes, "I have received safely, though tardily, the magnesia and
tooth-powder, _Phrosine_ and _Alashtar_. I shall clean my teeth with
one, and wipe my shoes with the other."--_Letters_, 1901, iv.]
[88] [Sotheby's _Farewell to Italy_ and _Occasional Poems_ were
published in 1818, as the record of a tour which he had taken in 1816-17
with his family, Professor Elmsley, and Dr. Playfair. For Byron's
unfinished skit on Sotheby's Tour, see _Letters_, 1900, iv. Appendix V.
pp. 452, 453.]
[89] [_Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters of Books and Men_, by the
Rev. Joseph Spence, arranged, with notes, by the late Edmund Malone,
Esq., 1 vol. 8vo, 1820.]
[90] [_The Life of Mary Queen of Scots_, by George Chalmers, 2 vols.
4to, 1819.]
[91] [Thomas Gordon (1788-1841) entered the Scots Greys in 1808. Two
years later he visited Ali Pasha (see _Letters_, 1898, i. 246, _note_ 1)
in Albania, and travelled in Persia and Turkey in the East. From 1813 to
1815 he served in the Russian Army. He wrote a _History of the Greek
Revolution_, 1832, 2 vols., but it does not appear that he was
negotiating with Murray for the publication of any work at this period.]
[92] _Vide_ your letter.
[93] [Probably Sir Robert John Wilmot (1784-1841) (afterwards Wilmot
Horton), Byron's first cousin, who took a prominent part in the
destruction of the "Memoirs," May 17, 1824. (For Lady Wilmot Horton, the
original of "She walks in beauty," see _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii. 381,
_note_ I.)]
[94] [Stanzas 12, 13, 14 cannot be published.]
ON THE BIRTH OF JOHN WILLIAM RIZZO HOPPNER.[95]
HIS father's sense, his mother's grace,
In him, I hope, will always fit so;
With--still to keep him in good case--
The health and appetite of Rizzo.
_February_ 20, 1818.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 134.]
FOOTNOTES:
[95] [Richard Belgrave Hoppner (1786-1872), second son of John Hoppner,
R.A., was appointed English Consul at Venice, October, 1814. (See
_Letters_, 1900, iv. 83, _note_ I.) The quatrain was translated (see the
following poem) into eleven different languages--Greek, Latin, Italian
(also the Venetian dialect), German, French, Spanish, Illyrian, Hebrew,
Armenian, and Samaritan, and printed "in a small neat volume in the
seminary of Padua." For nine of these translations see _Works_, 1832,
xi. pp. 324-326, and 1891, p. 571. Rizzo was a Venetian surname. See W.
Stewart Rose's verses to Byron, "Grinanis, Mocenijas, Baltis, Rizzi,
Compassionate our cruel case," etc., _Letters_, iv. 212.]
[E NIHILO NIHIL;
OR
AN EPIGRAM BEWITCHED.]
OF rhymes I printed seven volumes--[96]
The list concludes John Murray's columns:
Of these there have been few translations[97]
For Gallic or Italian nations;
And one or two perhaps in German--
But in this last I can't determine.
But then I only sung of passions
That do not suit with modern fashions;
Of Incest and such like diversions
Permitted only to the Persians,
Or Greeks to bring upon their stages--
But that was in the earlier ages
Besides my style is the romantic,
Which some call fine, and some call frantic;
While others are or would seem _as_ sick
Of repetitions nicknamed Classic.
For my part all men must allow
Whatever I was, I'm classic now.
I saw and left my fault in time,
And chose a topic all sublime--
Wondrous as antient war or hero--
Then played and sung away like Nero,
Who sang of Rome, and I of Rizzo:
The subject has improved my wit so,
The first four lines the poet sees
Start forth in fourteen languages!
Though of seven volumes none before
Could ever reach the fame of four,
Henceforth I sacrifice all Glory
To the Rinaldo of my Story:
I've sung his health and appetite
(The last word's not translated right--
He's turned it, God knows how, to vigour)[98]
I'll sing them in a book that's bigger.
Oh! Muse prepare for thy Ascension!
And generous Rizzo! thou my pension.
_February_, 1818.
[From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. Murray,
now for the first time printed.]
FOOTNOTES:
[96] [Byron must have added the Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold_ to the
complete edition of the _Poetical Works_ in six volumes. See Murray's
list, dated "Albemarle Street, London, January, 1818." The seventh
volume of the Collected Works was not issued till 1819.]
[97] [A French translation of the _Bride of Abydos_ appeared in 1816, an
Italian translation of the _Lament of Tasso_ in 1817. Goethe (see
_Letters_, 1901, v. 503-521) translated fragments of _Manfred_ in 1817,
1818, but the earliest German translation of the entire text of
_Manfred_ was issued in 1819.]
[98] [See the last line of the Italian translation of the quatrain.]
TO MR. MURRAY.
1.
Strahan, Tonson, Lintot of the times,[99]
Patron and publisher of rhymes,
For thee the bard up Pindus climbs,
My Murray.
2.
To thee, with hope and terror dumb,
The unfledged MS. authors come;
Thou printest all--and sellest some--
My Murray.
3.
Upon thy table's baize so green
The last new Quarterly is seen,--
But where is thy new Magazine,[100]
My Murray?
4.
Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine
The works thou deemest most divine--
The Art of Cookery,[101] and mine,
My Murray.
5.
Tours, Travels, Essays, too, I wist,
And Sermons, to thy mill bring grist;
And then thou hast the _Navy List_,
My Murray.
6.
And Heaven forbid I should conclude,
Without "the Board of Longitude,"[102]
Although this narrow paper would,
My Murray.
Venice, _April 11_, 1818.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 171.]
FOOTNOTES:
[99] [William Strahan (1715-1785) published Johnson's _Dictionary_,
Gibbon's _Decline and Fall_, Cook's _Voyages, etc_. He was
great-grandfather of the mathematician William Spottiswoode (1825-1883).
Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736) published for Otway, Dryden, Addison, etc. He
was secretary of the Kit-Cat Club, 1700. He was the publisher (1712,
etc.) of the _Spectator_.
Barnaby Bernard Lintot (1675-1736) was at one time (1718) in partnership
with Tonson. He published Pope's _Iliad_ in 1715, and the _Odyssey_,
1725-26.]
[100] [See note 2, p. 51.]
[101] [Mrs. Rundell's _Domestic Cookery_, published in 1806, was one of
Murray's most successful books. In 1822 he purchased the copyright from
Mrs. Rundell for £2000 (see _Letters_, 1898, ii. 375; and _Memoir of
John Murray_, 1891, ii. 124).]
[102] [The sixth edition of _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_ (1813) was
"printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars, for John Murray, Bookseller to the
Admiralty, and the Board of Longitude." Medwin (_Conversations_, 1824,
p. 259) attributes to Byron a statement that Murray had to choose
between continuing to be his publisher and printing the "Navy Lists,"
and "that there was no hesitation which way he should decide: the
Admiralty carried the day." In his "Notes" to the _Conversations_
(November 2, 1824) Murray characterized "the passage about the
Admiralty" as "unfounded in fact, and no otherwise deserving of notice
than to mark its absurdity."]
BALLAD. TO THE TUNE OF "SALLEY IN OUR ALLEY."
1.
OF all the twice ten thousand bards
That ever penned a canto,
Whom Pudding or whom Praise rewards
For lining a portmanteau;
Of all the poets ever known,
From Grub-street to Fop's Alley,[103]
The Muse may boast--the World must own
There's none like pretty Gally![104]
2.
He writes as well as any Miss,
Has published many a poem;
The shame is yours, the gain is his,
In case you should not know 'em:
He has ten thousand pounds a year--
I do not mean to vally--
His songs at sixpence would be dear,
So give them gratis, Gaily!
3.
And if this statement should seem queer,
Or set down in a hurry,
Go, ask (if he will be sincere)
His bookseller--John Murray.
Come, say, how many have been sold,
And don't stand shilly-shally,
Of bound and lettered, red and gold,
Well printed works of Gally.
4.
For Astley's circus Upton[105] writes,
And also for the Surry; (_sic_)
Fitzgerald weekly still recites,
Though grinning Critics worry:
Miss Holford's Peg, and Sotheby's Saul,
In fame exactly tally;
From Stationer's Hall to Grocer's Stall
They go--and so does Gally.
5.
He rode upon a Camel's hump[106]
Through Araby the sandy,
Which surely must have hurt the rump
Of this poetic dandy.
His rhymes are of the costive kind,
And barren as each valley
In deserts which he left behind
Has been the Muse of Gally.
6.
He has a Seat in Parliament,
Is fat and passing wealthy;
And surely he should be content
With these and being healthy:
But Great Ambition will misrule
Men at all risks to sally,--
Now makes a poet--now a fool,
And _we_ know _which_--of Gally.
7.
Some in the playhouse like to row,
Some with the Watch to battle,
Exchanging many a midnight blow
To Music of the Rattle.
Some folks like rowing on the Thames,
Some rowing in an Alley,
But all the Row my fancy claims
Is _rowing_--of my _Gally_.
_April_ 11, 1818.[107]
FOOTNOTES:
[103] [For Fop's Alley, see _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 410, _note_ 2.]
[104] [H. Gally Knight (1786-1846) was at Cambridge with Byron.]
[105] [William Upton was the author of _Poems on Several Occasions_,
1788, and of the _Words of the most Favourite Songs, Duets, etc._, sung
at the Royal Amphitheatre, Westminster Bridge, etc. In the dedication to
Mrs. Astley he speaks of himself as the author of the _Black Cattle_,
_Fair Rosamond_, etc. He has also been credited with the words of James
Hook's famous song, _A Lass of Richmond Hill_, but this has been
disputed. (See _Notes and Queries_, 1878, Series V. vol. ix. p. 495.)]
[106] [Compare--
"Th' unloaded camel, pacing slow.
Crops the rough herbage or the tamarisk spray."
_Alashtar_ (by H.G. Knight), 1817, Canto I, stanza viii, lines 5, 6.]
[107] [From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. Murray, now for
the first time printed. For stanzas 3, 4, 6, see _Letters_, 1900, iv.
219, 220. For stanzas 1, 2, 3 of "Another Simple Ballat. To the tune of
Tally i.o. the Grinder" (probably a variant of Dibdin's song, "The
Grinders, or more Grist to the Mill"), _vide ibid._, pp. 220, 221.]
ANOTHER SIMPLE BALLAT.
1.
MRS. WILMOT sate scribbling a play,
Mr. Sotheby sate sweating behind her;
But what are all these to the Lay
Of Gally i.o. the Grinder?
Gally i.o. i.o., etc.
2.
I bought me some books tother day,
And sent them down stairs to the binder;
But the Pastry Cook carried away
My Gally i.o. the Grinder.
Gally i.o. i.o., etc.
3.
I wanted to kindle my taper,
And called to the Maid to remind her;
And what should she bring me for paper
But Gally i.o. the Grinder.
Gally i.o. i.o., etc.
4.
Among my researches for EASE
I went where one's certain to find her:
The first thing by her throne that one sees
Is Gally i.o. the Grinder.
Gally i.o. i.o., etc.
5.
Away with old Homer the blind--
I'll show you a poet that's blinder:
You may see him whene'er you've a mind
In Gally i.o. the Grinder.
Gally i.o. i.o., etc.
6.
Blindfold he runs groping for fame,
And hardly knows where he will find her:
She don't seem to take to the name
Of Gally i.o. the Grinder.
Gally i.o. i.o., etc.
7.
Yet the Critics have been very kind,
And Mamma and his friends have been kinder;
But the greatest of Glory's behind
For Gally i.o. the Grinder.
Gally i.o. i.o., etc.
_April_ 11, 1818.
[From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. Murray,
now for the first time printed.]
EPIGRAM.
FROM THE FRENCH OF RULHIÈRES.[108]
IF for silver, or for gold,
You could melt ten thousand pimples
Into half a dozen dimples,
Then your face we might behold,
Looking, doubtless, much more snugly,
Yet even _then_ 'twould be damned ugly.
_August_ 12, 1819.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 235.]
FOOTNOTES:
[108] ["Would you like an epigram--a translation? It was written on some
Frenchwoman, by Rulhières, I believe."--Letter to Murray, August 12,
1819, _Letters_, 1900, iv. 346.
Claude Carloman de Rulhière (1718-1791), historian, poet, and
epigrammatist, was the author of _Anecdotes sur la revolution de Russie
en l'anneé_ 1762, _Histoire de l'anarchie de Pologne_ (1807), etc. His
epigrams are included in "Poésies Diverses," which are appended to _Les
jeux de Mains_, a poem in three cantos, published in 1808, and were
collected in his _Oeuvres Posthumes_, 1819; but there is no trace of the
original of Byron's translation. Perhaps it is _after_ de Rulhière, who
more than once epigrammatizes "Une Vieille Femme."]
EPILOGUE.[109]
1.
THERE'S something in a stupid ass,
And something in a heavy dunce;
But never since I went to school
I heard or saw so damned a fool
As William Wordsworth is for once.
2.
And now I've seen so great a fool
As William Wordsworth is for once;
I really wish that Peter Bell
And he who wrote it were in hell,
For writing nonsense for the nonce.
3.
It saw the "light in ninety-eight,"
Sweet babe of one and twenty years![110]
And then he gives it to the nation
And deems himself of Shakespeare's peers!
4.
He gives the perfect work to light!
Will Wordsworth, if I might advise,
Content you with the praise you get
From Sir George Beaumont, Baronet,
And with your place in the Excise!
1819.
[First published, _Philadelphia Record_, December 28, 1891.]
FOOTNOTES:
[109] [The MS. of the "Epilogue" is inscribed on the margin of a copy of
Wordsworth's _Peter Bell_, inserted in a set of Byron's _Works_
presented by George W. Childs to the Drexel Institute. (From information
kindly supplied by Mr. John H. Bewley, of Buffalo, New York.)
The first edition of _Peter Bell_ appeared early in 1819, and a second
edition followed in May, 1819. In Byron's Dedication of _Marino
Faliero_, "To Baron Goethe," dated October 20, 1820 (_Poetical Works_,
1891, iv. 341), the same allusions to Sir George Beaumont, to
Wordsworth's "place in the Excise," and to his admission that _Peter
Bell_ had been withheld "for one and twenty years," occur in an omitted
paragraph first published, _Letters_, 1891, v. 101. So close a
correspondence of an unpublished fragment with a genuine document leaves
little doubt as to the composition of the "Epilogue."]
[110] [The missing line may be, "To _permanently_ fill a station," see
Preface to _Peter Bell_.]
ON MY WEDDING-DAY.
HERE'S a happy New Year! but with reason
I beg you'll permit me to say--
Wish me _many_ returns of the _Season_,
But as _few_ as you please of the _Day_.[111]
_January_ 2, 1820.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 294.]
FOOTNOTES:
[111] [Medwin (_Conversations_, 1824, p. 156) prints an alternative--
"You may wish me returns of the season,
Let us, prithee, have none of the day!"]
EPITAPH FOR WILLIAM PITT.
WITH Death doomed to grapple,
Beneath this cold slab, he
Who lied in the Chapel
Now lies in the Abbey.
_January_ 2, 1820.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 295.]
EPIGRAM.
IN digging up your bones, Tom Paine,
Will. Cobbett[112] has done well:
You visit him on Earth again,
He'll visit you in Hell.
or--
You come to him on Earth again
He'll go with you to Hell!
_January_ 2, 1820.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 295.]
FOOTNOTES:
[112] [Cobbett, by way of atonement for youthful vituperation (he called
him "a ragamuffin deist") of Tom Paine, exhumed his bones from their
first resting-place at New Rochelle, and brought them to Liverpool on
his return to England in 1819. They were preserved by Cobbett at
Normanby, Farnham, till his death in 1835, but were sold in consequence
of his son's bankruptcy in 1836, and passed into the keeping of a Mr.
Tilly, who was known to be their fortunate possessor as late as 1844.
(See _Notes and Queries_, 1868, Series IV. vol. i. pp. 201-203.)]
EPITAPH.
POSTERITY will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this;
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop traveller, * *
_January_ 2, 1820.
[First published, _Lord Byron's Works_, 1833, xvii. 246.]
EPIGRAM.
The world is a bundle of hay,
Mankind are the asses who pull;
Each tugs it a different way,--
And the greatest of all is John Bull!
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 494.]
MY BOY HOBBIE O.[113]
New Song to the tune of
"_Whare hae ye been a' day,
My boy Tammy O.!
Courting o' a young thing
Just come frae her Mammie O._"
1.
HOW came you in Hob's pound to cool,
My boy Hobbie O?
Because I bade the people pull
The House into the Lobby O.
2.
What did the House upon this call,
My boy Hobbie O?
They voted me to Newgate all,
Which is an awkward Jobby O.
3.
Who are now the people's men,
My boy Hobbie O?
There's I and Burdett--Gentlemen
And blackguard Hunt and Cobby O.
4.
You hate the house--_why_ canvass, then?
My boy Hobbie O?
Because I would reform the den
As member for the Mobby O.
5.
Wherefore do you hate the Whigs,
My boy Hobbie O?
Because they want to run their rigs,
As under Walpole Bobby O.
6.
But when we at Cambridge were
My boy Hobbie O,
If my memory don't err
You founded a Whig Clubbie O.
7.
When to the mob you make a speech,
My boy Hobbie O,
How do you keep without their reach
The watch within your fobby O?
8.
But never mind such petty things,
My boy Hobbie O;
God save the people--damn all Kings,
So let us Crown the Mobby O!
Yours truly,
(Signed) _INFIDUS SCURRA_.
_March 23d_, 1820.
[First published _Murray's Magazine_, March, 1887,
vol. i. pp. 292, 293.]
FOOTNOTES:
[113] [John Cam Hobhouse (1786-1869) (see _Letters_, 1898, i. 163,
_note_ 1) was committed to Newgate in December, 1819, for certain
passages in a pamphlet entitled, _A Trifling Mistake in Thomas Lord
Erskine's recent Preface_, which were voted (December 10) a breach of
privilege. He remained in prison till the dissolution on the king's
death, February 20, 1820, when he stood and was returned for
Westminster. Byron's Liberalism was intermittent, and he felt, or, as
Hobhouse thought, pretended to feel, as a Whig and an aristocrat with
regard to the free lances of the Radical party. The sole charge in this
"filthy ballad," which annoyed Hobhouse, was that he had founded a Whig
Club when he was an undergraduate at Cambridge. He assured Murray (see
his letter, November, 1820, _Letters_, vol. iv. Appendix XI. pp.
498-500) that he was not the founder of the club, and that Byron himself
was a member. "As for his Lordship's vulgar notions about the _mob_" he
adds, "they are very fit for the Poet of the _Morning Post_, and for
nobody else." There is no reason to suppose that Byron was in any way
responsible for the version as sent to the _Morning Post_.]
"MY BOY HOBBY O.
[ANOTHER VERSION.]
To the Editor of the _Morning Post_.
Sir,--A copy of verses, to the tune of '_My boy Tammy_,' are repeated
in literary circles, and said to be written by a Noble Lord of the
highest poetical fame, upon his quondam friend and annotator. My memory
does not enable me to repeat more than the first two verses quite
accurately, but the humourous spirit of the Song may be gathered from
these:--
1.
Why were you put in Lob's pond,
My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)
For telling folks to pull the House
By the ears into the Lobby O!
2.
Who are your grand Reformers now,
My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)
There's me and BURDETT,--gentlemen,
And Blackguards HUNT and COBBY O!
3.
Have you no other friends but these,
My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)
Yes, Southwark's Knight,[*] the County BYNG,
And in the City, BOBBY O!
[*] "Southwark's Knight" was General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson
(1777-1849), who was returned for Southwark in 1818, and again in 1820;
"County Byng" was George Byng, M.P. for Middlesex; and "Bobby" was Sir
Robert Waithman (1764-1833), who represented the City of London in 1818,
but lost his seat to Sir William Curtis in 1820. All these were advanced
Liberals, and, as such, Parliamentary friends of Hobhouse.
4.
How do you recreate yourselves,
My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)
We spout with tavern Radicals,
And drink with them hob-nobby O!
5.
What purpose can such folly work,
My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)
It gives our partisans a chance
Watches to twitch from fob-by O!
6.
Have they no higher game in view,
My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)
Oh yes; to stir the people up,
And then to head the mob-by O.
7.
But sure they'll at their ruin pause,
My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)
No! they'd see King and Parliament
Both d--d without a sob-by O!
8.
But, if they fail, they'll be hanged up,
My boy, HOBBY O? (_bis_)
Why, then, they'll swing, like better men,
And that will end the job-by O!
PHILO-RADICLE.
April 15, 1820."
LINES
ADDRESSED BY LORD BYRON TO MR. HOBHOUSE
ON HIS ELECTION FOR WESTMINSTER.[114]
WOULD you go to the house by the true gate,
Much faster than ever Whig Charley went;
Let Parliament send you to Newgate,
And Newgate will send you to Parliament.
_April 9, 1820_.
[First published, _Miscellaneous Poems_, printed for
J. Bumpus, 1824.]
FOOTNOTES:
[114] ["I send you 'a Song of Triumph,' by W. Botherby, Esq^re^ price
sixpence, on the election of J.C.H., Esqre., for Westminster (_not_ for
publication)."--Letter to Murray, April 9, 1820, _Letters_, 1901, v. 6.]
A VOLUME OF NONSENSE.
DEAR MURRAY,--
You ask for a "_Volume of Nonsense_,"
Have all of your authors exhausted their store?
I thought you had published a good deal not long since.
And doubtless the Squadron are ready with more.
But on looking again, I perceive that the Species
Of "Nonsense" you want must be purely "_facetious_;"
And, as that is the case, you had best put to press
Mr. Sotheby's tragedies now in M.S.,
Some Syrian Sally
From common-place Gally,
Or, if you prefer the bookmaking of women,
Take a spick and span "Sketch" of your feminine _He-Man_.[115]
_Sept. 28, 1820._
[First published, _Letters_, 1900, v. 83.]
FOOTNOTES:
[115] [For Felicia Dorothea Browne (1793-1835), married in 1812 to
Captain Hemans, see _Letters_, iii. 368, _note_ 2. In the letter which
contains these verses he writes, "I do not despise Mrs. Heman; but if
she knit blue stockings instead of wearing them it would be better."
Elsewhere he does despise her: "No more _modern_ poesy, I pray, neither
Mrs. Hewoman's nor any female or male Tadpole of poet
Wordsworth's."--_Ibid._, v. 64.]
STANZAS.[116]
WHEN a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,
Let him combat for that of his neighbours;
Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome,
And get knocked on the head for his labours.
To do good to Mankind is the chivalrous plan,
And is always as nobly requited;
Then battle for Freedom wherever you can,
And, if not shot or hanged, you'll get knighted.
_November 5, 1820_.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 377.]
FOOTNOTES:
[116] [The lines were sent in a letter to Moore (November 5, 1820) by
way of _Autoepitaphium_, "if 'honour should come unlooked for' to any of
your acquaintance;" i.e. if Byron should fall in the cause of Italian
revolution, and Moore should not think him worthy of commemoration, here
was a threnody "ready at hand."]
TO PENELOPE.[117]
JANUARY 2, 1821.
THIS day, of all our days, has done
The worst for me and you:--
'T is just _six_ years since we were _one_,
And _five_ since we were _two_.
_November 5, 1820._
[First published, Medwin's _Conversations_, 1824, p. 106.]
FOOTNOTES:
[117] ["For the anniversary of January 2, 1821, I have a small grateful
anticipation, which, in case of accident, I add."--Letter to Moore,
November 5, 1820, _Letters_, 1891, v. 112.]
THE CHARITY BALL.[118]
WHAT matter the pangs of a husband and father,
If his sorrows in exile be great or be small,
So the Pharisee's glories around her she gather,
And the saint patronises her "Charity Ball!"
What matters--a heart which, though faulty, was feeling,
Be driven to excesses which once could appal--
That the Sinner should suffer is only fair dealing,
As the Saint keeps her charity back for "the Ball!"
_December 10, 1820._
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 540.]
FOOTNOTES:
[118] [Written on seeing the following paragraph in a newspaper: "Lady
Byron is this year the lady patroness at the annual Charity Ball, given
at the Town Hall, at Hinckley, Leicestershire...."--_Life_, p. 535.
Moore adds that "these verses [of which he only prints two stanzas] are
full of strong and indignant feeling,--every stanza concluding pointedly
with the words 'Charity Ball.'"]
EPIGRAM
ON THE BRAZIERS' ADDRESS TO BE PRESENTED
IN _ARMOUR_ BY THE COMPANY TO QUEEN CAROLINE.[119]
IT seems that the Braziers propose soon to pass
An Address and to bear it themselves all in brass;
A superfluous pageant, for by the Lord Harry!
They'll _find_, where they're going, much more than they carry.
Or--
THE Braziers, it seems, are determined to pass
An Address, and present it themselves all in brass:--
A superfluous {pageant/trouble} for, by the Lord Harry!
They'll find, where they're going, much more than they carry.
_January 6, 1821._
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 442.]
FOOTNOTES:
[119] [The allusion is explained in Rivington's _Annual Register_,
October 30, 1820 (vol. lxii. pp. 114, 115)--
"ADDRESSES TO THE QUEEN.
" ... The most splendid exhibition of the day was that of the
brass-founders and braziers. The procession was headed by a man dressed
in a suit of burnished plate armour of brass, and mounted on a handsome
black horse, the reins being held by pages ... wearing brass helmets....
A man in a complete suite of brass armour ... was followed by two
persons, bearing on a cushion a most magnificent imitation of the
imperial Crown of England. A small number of the deputation of
brass-founders were admitted to the presence of her Majesty, and one of
the persons in armour advanced to the throne, and bending on one knee,
presented the address, which was enclosed in a brass case of excellent
workmanship."--See _Letters_, 1901, v. 219, 220, _note_ 2.
In a postscript to a letter to Murray, dated January 19, 1821, he
writes, "I sent you a line or two on the Braziers' Company last week,
_not_ for publication. The lines were even worthy
'Of ----dsworth the great metaquizzical poet,
A man of great merit amongst those who know it,
Of whose works, as I told Moore last autumn at _Mestri_
I owe all I know to my passion for _Pastry_.'"
He adds, in a footnote, "_Mestri_ and _Fusina_ are the ferry trajects to
Venice: I believe, however, that it was at Fusina that Moore and I
embarked in 1819, when Thomas came to Venice, like Coleridge's Spring,
'slowly up this way.'"
Again, in a letter to Moore, dated January 22, 1821, he encloses
slightly different versions of both epigrams, and it is worth noting
that the first line of the pendant epigram has been bowdlerized, and
runs thus--
"Of Wordsworth the grand metaquizzical poet."
--_Letters_, 1901, v. 226, 230.]
ON MY THIRTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY.
JANUARY 22, 1821.[120]
THROUGH Life's dull road, so dim and dirty,
I have dragged to three-and-thirty.
What have these years left to me?
Nothing--except thirty-three.
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 414.]
FOOTNOTES:
[120] ["To-morrow is my birthday--that is to say, at twelve o' the
clock, midnight; _i.e._ in twelve minutes I shall have completed thirty
and three years of age!!! and I go to my bed with a heaviness of heart
at having lived so long, and to so little purpose. * * * It is three
minutes past twelve--''Tis the middle of night by the castle clock,' and
I am now thirty-three!--
'Eheu, fugaces, Posthume, Posthume,
Labuntur anni;'--
but I don't regret them so much for what I have done, as for what I
might have done."--Extracts from a Diary, January 21, 1821, _Letters_,
1901, v. 182.
In a letter to Moore, dated January 22, 1821, he gives another version--
"Through Life's road, so dim and dirty,
I have dragged to three-and-thirty.
What _have_ these years left to me?
Nothing--except thirty-three."
_Ibid._, p. 229.]
MARTIAL, LIB. I. EPIG. I.
"Hic est, quem legis, ille, quem requiris,
Toto notus in orbe Martialis," etc.
HE, unto whom thou art so partial,
Oh, reader! is the well-known Martial,
The Epigrammatist: while living,
Give him the fame thou would'st be giving;
So shall he hear, and feel, and know it--
Post-obits rarely reach a poet.
[N.D. ?1821.]
[First published, _Lord Byron's Works_, 1833, xvii. 245]
BOWLES AND CAMPBELL.
To the air of "How now, Madam Flirt," in the _Beggar's Opera_.[121]
BOWLES.
"WHY, how now, saucy Tom?
If you thus must ramble,
I will publish some
Remarks on Mister Campbell.
Saucy Tom!"
CAMPBELL.
"WHY, how now, Billy Bowles?
Sure the priest is maudlin!
(_To the public_) How can you, d--n your souls!
Listen to his twaddling?
_Billy Bowles_!"
_February 22, 1821._
[First published, _The Liberal_, 1823, No. II. p. 398.]
FOOTNOTES:
[121] [Compare the Beggar's Opera, act ii. sc. 2--
Air, "Good morrow, Gossip Joan."
"Polly. _Why, how now, Madam Flirt?
If you thus must chatter,
And are for flinging dirt,
Let's try who best can spatter,
Madam Flirt_!
"Lucy. _Why, how now, saucy jade?
Sure the wench is tipsy!
How can you see me made
The scoff of such a gipsy_? [To him.]
_Saucy jade_!" [To her.]
Bowles replied to Campbell's Introductory Essay to his _Specimens of the
English Poets_, 7 vols., 1819, by _The Invariable Principles of Poetry_,
in a letter addressed to Thomas Campbell. For Byron's two essays, the
"Letter to.... [John Murray]" and "Observations upon Observations," see
_Letters_, 1901, v. Appendix III. pp. 536-592.]
ELEGY.
BEHOLD the blessings of a lucky lot!
My play is _damned_, and Lady Noel _not_.
_May 25, 1821._
[First published, Medwin's _Conversations_, 1824, p. 121.]
JOHN KEATS.[122]
WHO killed John Keats?
"I," says the Quarterly,
So savage and Tartarly;
"'T was one of my feats."
Who shot the arrow?
"The poet-priest Milman
(So ready to kill man)
"Or Southey, or Barrow."
_July 30, 1821._
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 506.]
FOOTNOTES:
[122] [For Croker's "article" on Keats's _Endymion_ (_Quarterly Review_,
April, 1818, vol. xix. pp. 204-208), see _Don Juan_, Canto XI. stanza
lx. line 1, _Poetical Works_, 1902, vi. 445, _note_ 4.]
FROM THE FRENCH.
ÆGLE, beauty and poet, has two little crimes;
She makes her own face, and does not make her rhymes.
_Aug. 2, 1821._
[First published, _The Liberal_, 1823, No. II. p. 396.]
TO MR. MURRAY.
1.
FOR Orford[123] and for Waldegrave[124]
You give much more than me you _gave_;
Which is not fairly to behave,
My Murray!
2.
Because if a live dog, 't is said,
Be worth a lion fairly sped,
A live lord must be worth _two_ dead,
My Murray!
3.
And if, as the opinion goes,
Verse hath a better sale than prose,--
Certes, I should have more than those,
My Murray!
4.
But now this sheet is nearly crammed,
So, if _you will_, _I_ shan't be shammed,
And if you _won't_,--_you_ may be damned,
My Murray![125]
_August 23, 1821._
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 517.]
FOOTNOTES:
[123] [Horace Walpole's _Memoirs of the Last Nine Years of the Reign of
George II._ ]
[124] [_Memoirs_ by James Earl Waldegrave, Governor of George III. when
Prince of Wales.]
[125] ["Can't accept your courteous offer [_i.e._ £2000 for three cantos
of _Don Juan, Sardanapalus_, and _The Two Foscari_.] These matters must
be arranged with Mr. Douglas Kinnaird. He is my trustee, and a man of
honour. To him you can state all your mercantile reasons, which you
might not like to state to me personally, such as 'heavy season'--'flat
public'--'don't go off'--'lordship writes too much'--'won't take
advice'--'declining popularity'--'deductions for the trade'--'make very
little'--'generally lose by him'--'pirated edition'--'foreign
edition'--'severe criticisms,' etc., with other hints and howls for an
oration, which I leave Douglas, who is an orator, to answer."--Letter to
Murray, August 23, 1821, _Letters_, 1901, v. 348.]
[NAPOLEON'S SNUFF-BOX.][126]
LADY, accept the box a hero wore,
In spite of all this elegiac stuff:
Let not seven stanzas written by a bore,
Prevent your Ladyship from taking snuff!
1821.
[First published, _Conversations of Lord Byron_, 1824, p. 235.]
FOOTNOTES:
[126] [Napoleon bequeathed to Lady Holland a snuff-box which had been
given to him by the Pope for his clemency in sparing Rome. Lord Carlisle
wrote eight (not seven) stanzas, urging her, as Byron told Medwin, to
decline the gift, "for fear that horror and murder should jump out of
the lid every time it is opened."--_Conversations_, 1824, p. 362. The
first stanza of Lord Carlyle's verses, which _teste_ Medwin, Byron
parodied, runs thus--
"Lady, reject the gift! 'tis tinged with gore!
Those crimson spots a dreadful tale relate;
It has been grasp'd by an infernal Power;
And by that hand which seal'd young Enghien's fate."
The snuff-box is now in the jewel-room in the British Museum.]
THE NEW VICAR OF BRAY.
1.
DO you know Doctor Nott?[127]
With "a crook in his lot,"
Who seven years since tried to dish up
A neat Codi_cil_
To the Princess's Will,[128]
Which made Dr. Nott _not_ a bishop.
2.
So the Doctor being found
A little unsound
In his doctrine, at least as a teacher,
And kicked from one stool
As a knave or a fool,
He mounted another as preacher.
3.
In that Gown (like the Skin
With no Lion within)
He still for the Bench would be driving;
And roareth away,
A new Vicar of _Bray_,
Except that _his bray_ lost his living.
4.
"Gainst Freethinkers," he roars,
"You should all block your doors
Or be named in the Devil's indentures:"
And here I agree,
For who e'er would be
A Guest where old Simony enters?
5.
Let the Priest, who beguiled
His own Sovereign's child
To his own dirty views of promotion,
Wear his Sheep's cloathing still
Among flocks to his will,
And dishonour the Cause of devotion.
6.
The Altar and Throne
Are in danger alone
From such as himself, who would render
The Altar itself
But a step up to Pelf,
And pray God to pay his defender.
7.
But, Doctor, one word
Which perhaps you have heard
"He should never throw stones who has windows
Of Glass to be broken,
And by this same token
As a sinner, you can't care what Sin does.
8.
But perhaps you do well:
Your own windows, they tell,
Have long ago sufferéd censure;
Not a fragment remains
Of your character's panes,
Since the Regent refused you a glazier.
9.
Though your visions of lawn
Have all been withdrawn,
And you missed your bold stroke for a mitre;
In a very snug way
You may still preach and pray,
And from bishop sink into backbiter!"
[First published, _Works_ (Galignani), 1831, p. 116.]
FOOTNOTES:
[127] [George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), critic and divine, was Rector
of Harrietsham and Woodchurch, a Prebendary of Winchester and of
Salisbury. He was Bampton Lecturer in 1802, and, soon afterwards, was
appointed sub-preceptor to the Princess Charlotte of Wales. He was a
connoisseur of architecture and painting, and passed much of his time in
Italy and at Rome. When he was at Pisa he preached in a private room in
the basement story of the house in Pisa where Shelley was living, and
fell under Byron's displeasure for attacking the Satanic school, and
denouncing _Cain_ as a blasphemous production. "The parsons," he told
Moore (letter, February 20, 1820), "preached at it [_Cain_] from Kentish
Town to Pisa." Hence the apostrophe to Dr. Nott. (See _Records of
Shelley, Byron, and the Author_, by E.T. Trelawny, 1887, pp. 302, 303.)]
[128] [According to Lady Anne Hamilton (_Secret History of the Court of
England_, 1832, i. 198-207), the Princess Charlotte incurred the
suspicion and displeasure of her uncles and her grandmother, the Queen,
by displaying an ardent and undue interest in her sub-preceptor. On
being reproved by the Queen for "condescending to favour persons in low
life with confidence or particular respect, persons likely to take
advantage of your simplicity and innocence," and having learnt that
"persons" meant Mr. Nott, she replied by threatening to sign a will in
favour of her sub-preceptor, and by actually making over to him by a
deed her library, jewels, and all other private property. Lady Anne
Hamilton is not an accurate or trustworthy authority, but her extremely
circumstantial narrative was, no doubt, an expansion of the contemporary
scandal to which Byron's lampoon gave currency.]
LUCIETTA. A FRAGMENT.
LUCIETTA, my deary,
That fairest of faces!
Is made up of kisses;
But, in love, oft the case is
Even stranger than this is--
There's another, that's slyer,
Who touches me nigher,--
A Witch, an intriguer,
Whose manner and figure
Now piques me, excites me,
Torments and delights me--
_Cætera desunt_.
[From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. Murray,
now for the first time printed.]
EPIGRAMS.
OH, Castlereagh! thou art a patriot now;
Cato died for his country, so did'st thou:
He perished rather than see Rome enslaved,
Thou cut'st thy throat that Britain may be saved!
* * * * *
So Castlereagh has cut his throat!--The worst
Of this is,--that his own was not the first.
* * * * *
So _He_ has cut his throat at last!--He! Who?
The man who cut his country's long ago.
_?August, 1822._
[First published, _The Liberal_, No. I. October 18, 1822, p. 164.]
THE CONQUEST.[129]
THE Son of Love and Lord of War I sing;
Him who bade England bow to Normandy,
And left the name of Conqueror more than King
To his unconquerable dynasty.
Not fanned alone by Victory's fleeting wing,
He reared his bold and brilliant throne on high;
The Bastard kept, like lions, his prey fast,
And Britain's bravest Victor was the last.
_March 8-9, 1823._
[First published, _Lord Byron's Works_, 1833, xvii. 246.]
FOOTNOTES:
[129] [This fragment was found amongst Lord Byron's papers, after his
departure from Genoa for Greece.]
IMPROMPTU.[130]
BENEATH Blessington's eyes
The reclaimed Paradise
Should be free as the former from evil;
But if the new Eve
For an Apple should grieve,
What mortal would not play the Devil?
_April, 1823._
[First published, _Letters and Journals_, 1830, ii. 635.]
FOOTNOTES:
[130] [With the view of inducing these friends [Lord and Lady
Blessington] to prolong their stay at Genoa, he suggested their taking a
pretty villa, called "Il Paradiso," in the neighbourhood of his own, and
accompanied them to look at it. Upon that occasion it was that, on the
lady expressing some intention of residing there, he produced the
following impromptu.--_Life_, 577.]
JOURNAL IN CEPHALONIA.
THE dead have been awakened--shall I sleep?
The World's at war with tyrants--shall I crouch?
The harvest's ripe--and shall I pause to reap?
I slumber not; the thorn is in my Couch;
Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
Its echo in my heart----
_June 19, 1823._
[First published, _Letters_, 1901, vi. 238.]
SONG TO THE SULIOTES.
1.
UP to battle! Sons of Suli
Up, and do your duty duly!
There the wall--and there the Moat is:
Bouwah![131] Bouwah! Suliotes!
There is booty--there is Beauty,
Up my boys and do your duty.
2.
By the sally and the rally
Which defied the arms of Ali;
By your own dear native Highlands,
By your children in the islands,
Up and charge, my Stratiotes,
Bouwah!--Bouwah!--Suliotes!
3.
As our ploughshare is the Sabre:
Here's the harvest of our labour;
For behind those battered breaches
Are our foes with all their riches:
There is Glory--there is plunder--
Then away despite of thunder!
[From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. Murray,
now for the first time printed.]
FOOTNOTES:
[131] "Bouwah!" is their war-cry.
[LOVE AND DEATH.]
1.
I WATCHED thee when the foe was at our side,
Ready to strike at him--or thee and me.
Were safety hopeless--rather than divide
Aught with one loved save love and liberty.
2.
I watched thee on the breakers, when the rock
Received our prow and all was storm and fear,
And bade thee cling to me through every shock;
This arm would be thy bark, or breast thy bier.
3.
I watched thee when the fever glazed thine eyes,
Yielding my couch and stretched me on the ground,
When overworn with watching, ne'er to rise
From thence if thou an early grave hadst found.
4.
The earthquake came, and rocked the quivering wall,
And men and nature reeled as if with wine.
Whom did I seek around the tottering hall?
For thee. Whose safety first provide for? Thine.
5.
And when convulsive throes denied my breath
The faintest utterance to my fading thought,
To thee--to thee--e'en in the gasp of death
My spirit turned, oh! oftener than it ought.
6.
Thus much and more; and yet thou lov'st me not,
And never wilt! Love dwells not in our will.
Nor can I blame thee, though it be my lot
To strongly, wrongly, vainly love thee still.[132]
[First published, _Murray's Magazine_, February, 1887,
vol. i. pp. 145, 146.]
FOOTNOTES:
[132] ["The last he ever wrote. From a rough copy found amongst his
papers at the back of the 'Song of Suli.' Copied November, 1824.--John
C. Hobhouse."
"A note, attached to the verses by Lord Byron, states they were
addressed to no one in particular, and were a mere poetical Scherzo.
--J.C.H."]
LAST WORDS ON GREECE.
WHAT are to me those honours or renown
Past or to come, a new-born people's cry?
Albeit for such I could despise a crown
Of aught save laurel, or for such could die.
I am a fool of passion, and a frown
Of thine to me is as an adder's eye.
To the poor bird whose pinion fluttering down
Wafts unto death the breast it bore so high;
Such is this maddening fascination grown,
So strong thy magic or so weak am I.
[First published, _Murray's Magazine_, February,
1887, vol. i. p. 146.]
ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR.[133]
1.
'T IS time this heart should be unmoved,
Since others it hath ceased to move:
Yet, though I cannot be beloved,
Still let me love!
2.
My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of Love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone!
3.
The fire that on my bosom preys
Is lone[iii] as some Volcanic isle;
No torch is kindled at its blaze--
A funeral pile.
4.
The hope, the fear, the jealous care,
The exalted portion of the pain
And power of love, I cannot share,
But wear the chain.
5.
But 't is not _thus_--and 't is not _here_--[iv]
Such thoughts should shake my soul, nor now
Where Glory decks the hero's bier,[v]
Or binds his brow.
6.
The Sword, the Banner, and the Field,[vi]
Glory and Greece, around me see!
The Spartan, borne upon his shield,[134]
Was not more free.
7.
Awake! (not Greece--she _is_ awake!)
Awake, my spirit! Think through _whom_
Thy life-blood tracks its parent lake,[vii]
And then strike home!
8.
Tread those reviving passions down,[viii]
Unworthy manhood!--unto thee
Indifferent should the smile or frown
Of Beauty be.
9.
If thou regret'st thy youth, _why live_?
The land of honourable death
Is here:--up to the Field, and give
Away thy breath!
10.
Seek out--less often sought than found--
A soldier's grave, for thee the best;
Then look around, and choose thy ground,
And take thy Rest.
Missolonghi, _Jan_. 22, 1824.
[First published, _Morning Chronicle_, October 29, 1824.]
FOOTNOTES:
[133] ["This morning Lord Byron came from his bedroom into the apartment
where Colonel Stanhope and some friends were assembled, and said with a
smile--'You were complaining, the other day, that I never write any
poetry now:--this is my birthday, and I have just finished something,
which, I think, is better than what I usually write.' He then produced
these noble and affecting verses, which were afterwards found written in
his journals, with only the following introduction: 'Jan. 22; on this
day I complete my 36^th^ year.'"--_A Narrative of Lord Byron's Last
Journey to Greece_, 1825, p. 125, by Count Gamba. In the _Morning
Chronicle_, October 29, 1824, the lines are headed, "Lord Byron's Latest
Verses," and are prefaced by the following note: "We have been indebted
to a friend for the following immortal verses, the last he ever
composed. Four of the lines have already appeared in an article in the
_Westminster Review_" ("Lord Byron in Greece," July, 1824, vol. ii. p.
227).]
[iii] _Is like to_----.--[M.C.]
[iv] ---- _it is not here_.--[M.C.]
[v] ---- _seals the hero's bier_.--[M.C.]
[vi] _The steed--the Banner--and the Field.--_[MS. B.M.]
[134] I. [The slain were borne on their shields. Witness the Spartan
mother's speech to her son, delivered with his buckler: "either _with_
this _or on_ this" (B.M. Addit. MS. 31,038).]
[vii] _My life-blood tastes_----.--[M.C.]
[viii] _I tread reviving_----.--[M.C.]
A BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF THE
SUCCESSIVE EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS
OF
LORD BYRON'S _POETICAL WORKS_.
COLLECTED EDITIONS.
I.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ In Two Volumes./ Vol. I./
[Vol. II.] From the last London Edition./ Philadelphia:/ Published by
Moses Thomas,/ No. 52, Chesnut Street./ William Fry, Printer./ 1813./
[16º.
[A bound copy: smooth blue calf, lettered "LORD BYRON."]
_Collation_--
Vol. I.--Title, one leaf; Cont.; Half-title; Dedication; and Text, pp.
_1_-203.
Vol. II--Title, one leaf; Cont.; Half-title; Preface, etc, pp. i.-xii.;
Text, pp. _1_-261.
_Contents_--
Vol. I.:--Poems, Original and Translated p. 1
English Bards, etc. p. 137
Vol. II.:--Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I. p. 13
(xciii. stanzas)
Canto II. (lxxxviii. stanzas) p. 9
Notes p. 99
Poems (xx.) p. 156
The Giaour (1215 lines) p. 205
Note p. 261
_Note_ (Vol. I.).--On fly-leaf: "To the Rt. Honourable Lord Byron from
his obt. servant Geo Ticknor, June 20. 1815."
"This book was given to me by Lord Byron, April 20, 1816, on his leaving
England. Scrope Davies."
[Greek: APO: IÔ:]
[Greek: Keph. Th.]
[Greek: Kai\ e)n tai~s ê(me/rais e)kei/nais zêtê/sousin oi(
a)/nthrôpoi to\n tha/naton
kai\ ou)ch eu(rê/sousin au)to\n' kai\ e)pithymê/sousin
a)pothanei~n, kai\ pheu/xetai
o( tha/natos a)p' au)tô~n.]
On second fly-leaf: "Semper ego tui memoriam colam; semper tua imago
ante oculos observabitur; semper idem mihi eras; qui idem semper eras
bonis omnibus."
These volumes which were presented by George Ticknor to Lord Byron,[A]
and, in turn, presented by him to Scrope Davies, passed into the hands
of Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844), and are now in the possession of his
grandson, Mr. F.B. Money-Coutts.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] "He [Byron] spoke to me of a copy of the American edition of his
poems, which I had sent him, and expressed his satisfaction at seeing it
in a small form, because in that way, he said, nobody would be prevented
from purchasing it" ("Journal," June 21, 1815).--_Life, Letters, and
Journals_ of George Ticknor, Boston, 1876, i. 62.
II.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ From the last London Edition./ In
Two Volumes./ Volume I./ [Vol. II.] Boston:/ Published by Cummings &
Hilliard,/ No. I, Cornhill./ Joseph T. Buckingham, Printer,/ 1814./
[12º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. xi. + 308--Title, one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Cont., pp. iii.,
iv.; _Lord Byron_ [excerpt from the _Analectic Magazine_], pp. v.-xi.;
Text, pp. 1-308.
Vol. II.: pp. iv. + 251--Title, one leaf, pp. i, ii; Cont., pp. iii, iv;
Text, pp. 1-251.
_Contents_--
Vol. I.:--Poems, Original and Translated p. 1
English Bards, etc. (Third Edition) (1050 lines), with p. 123
Postscript
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos I., II. (First Edition), p. 179
with Notes, etc.
Vol. II.:--Poems [Twenty-six, _i.e._ poems issued with p. 1
Sec. Ed. of _Childe Harold_, and six (not tabulated)
issued with the _Corsair_]
The Giaour (Fifth Edition) p. 47
The Bride of Abydos (Seventh Edition) p. 103
The Corsair (Sixth Edition) p. 159
Prize Prologue (Oct. 1812) (Second Edition) p. 241
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (Second Edition: sixteen stanzas) p. 245
III.
The/ Works/ of/ The Right Honorable/ Lord Byron./ In Four Volumes./ Vol.
I./ [Vol. II., etc.] Childe Harold./ London:/ Printed for John Murray,
Albemarle Street./ 1815./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. xviii. + 218--Gen. Half-title, one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Title
(_R.T. Davison, Lombard-Street,/ White-Friars, London_.), pp. iii., iv.;
General Contents to the Four Volumes, pp. v.-x.*; Half-title (R.
Motto--_Le Cosmopolite_), _n.p._; Prefaces, pp. xi.-xviii.; Cont. to
Vol. I., one leaf, _n.p._; Text, pp. 1-218. The Imprint is at the foot
of p. 218.
_Note_.--In the earlier copies of Vol. I. of this edition, the misplaced
"Advertisement" to _The Giaour_ is on pp. i., ii., and pp. ix.*, x.*,
giving Cont. of _Hebrew Melodies_, are not inserted.
Vol. II.: pp. 1-202--Gen. Half-title, one leaf; Title (R. Imprint);
Cont. to Vol. II.; Half-title; Dedication; Text, pp. 1-202. The Imprint
is in the centre of the last page, p. [204].
Vol. III.: pp. viii. + 9-228--Gen. Half-title, one leaf; Title (R.
Imprint); Cont. to Vol. III.; Half-title, pp. i., ii.; Dedication to
Thomas Moore, Esq., pp. iii.-viii.; Text, pp. 9-228. The Imprint is at
the foot of p. 228.
Vol. IV.: pp. viii. [ix.*, x.*] + 203--Gen. Half-title, one leaf; Title
(R. Imprint), pp. i.-iv.; Cont. to Vol. IV., pp. v.-x.*; Text, pp.
1-203.
_Contents_--
Vol. I.:--To Ianthe, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos I., II., p. 3
(N. App.)
Romaic Books and Authors, etc. p. 188
Vol. II.:--The Giaour (N.) p. 1
The Bride of Abydos, Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 103
Vol. III.:--The Corsair, Cantos I.-III. (N.) p. i.
Lara, Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 133
Vol. IV.:--Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (N.) p. 1
Poems (N.) [xxxvi., consisting of xxix. pub. in the Seventh Ed. p. 17
of _Childe Harold_, vi. pub. in the Second Ed. of the
_Corsair_, and Verses on Sir P. Parker.]
Hebrew Melodies (24) p. 143
_Note_.--In later issues of Vol. III., 1815, the note on the "Pirates of
Barrataria" is inserted and paginated 133*-137*.
IV.
The/ Works/ of The/ Right Hon. Lord Byron./ In Two Volumes./ Vol. I./
[Vol. II.] London:/ Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1815/
[8º.
_Contents_--
Vol. I.: The Title, as above, is prefixed to _Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage_, Cantos I., II. (Fourth Ed.), 1812, and _Hebrew Melodies_
(First Ed.), 1815, pp. 1-53.
Vol. II.: The Title, as above, is prefixed to _Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage_, Canto III.; _Childe Harold_, etc., Canto the Fourth;
_Romance Muy Doloroso_, Translation, etc., pp. xiv. + 257; _The Lament
of Tasso_ (Sixth Ed.), 1818, pp. 1-18; _Poems_ (N.) (Second Ed.), 1816;
_Monody_, etc. (New Ed.), 1810; _Ode to Napoleon_ (Second Ed.), 1814, pp
1-14.
_Note_.--These general titles were advertised, in July, 1815, for the
purpose of binding, in two volumes, poems which were uniformly printed
but had been separately issued. It is evident that they were still to be
procured after the collected editions of 1815, 1817, 1818 had been
published. In other copies the Contents are arranged in a different
order.
V.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. From the last London Edition. In Three
Volumes. New York: Published by David Huntington. 1815.
[E. Kölbing, _Prisoner of Chillon_, 1896.]
VI.
_The Works_, etc. Including several poems now first collected. Together
with an Original Biography. Embellished with a portrait, title-page, and
six other engravings. In Three Vols. Philadelphia: Published by Moses
Thomas, J. Maxwell, Printer. 1816. [12º.
[Kölbing.]
VII.
The/ Works/ of/ The Right Honourable/ Lord Byron./ In Five Volumes./
Vol. I./ [Vol. II., etc.] Childe Harold./ London:/ John Murray,
Albemarle-Street./ 1817. [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.:--Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Half-title (R. Motto), pp. v.,
vi.; Pref., pp. vii.-xiv.; Cont., _n.p._; Text, pp. 1-218. The Imprint
(_T. Davison, Lombard Street,/ Whitefriars, London_/), is in the centre
of the last page.
Vol. II.: pp. 1-202--Title, one leaf; Cont. to Vol. II.; Half-title;
Dedication; Advertisement; Text, pp. 1-202. The Imprint is in the centre
of the last page, p. [204].
Vol. III.: pp. viii. + 9-222: Title, one leaf; Cont. to Vol. III.;
Half-title, pp. i. ii.; Dedication to Thomas Moore, Esq., pp.
iii.-viii.; Text, pp. 9-222. The Imprint is in the centre of the last
page, p. [224].
Vol. IV.: Title, one leaf; pp. iii., iv.; Cont. to Vol. IV., v.-viii.;
Text. The Imprint is in the centre of the last page.
Vol. V.: pp. vi. + 184--Title, one leaf; Dedication, pp. i., ii.;
Advertisement, pp. iii., iv.; Cont. to Vol. V., pp. v., vi.; Half-title;
Text, pp. 1-184. The Imprint is at the foot of p. 184.
_Note_.--The Cont. of Vols. I.-IV., 1817, are identical with the Cont.
of Vols. I.-IV., 1815.
_Contents_--
Vol. V.:-Siege of Corinth (N.) p. 1
Parisina (N.) p. 79
Poems (eleven, as pub. in _Poems_, 1816) p. 127
Monody, etc. (N.) p. 171
VIII.
Poems./ By Lord Byron./ New-York:/ Published by Thomas Kirk and Thomas
R. Mercein,/ Moses Thomas, M. Carey and Son, Philadelphia;/ Wells and
Lilly, Boston;/ and Coale and Maxwell, Baltimore./ T. and W. Mercein,
Printers, 93, Gold Street./ 1817./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 1-64 (title-page unnumbered).
IX.
The/ Works/ of/ The Right Honourable/ Lord Byron./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II.,
etc.] Childe Harold./ London:/ John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1818.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. xiv. + 218--Half-title (_R.T. Davison, Lombard Street,/
Whitefriars, London_./), etc. (_Vide supra_, Vol. I., 1817).
Vol. II.: pp. 1-202--Half-title (R. Imprint), etc. (_Vide supra_, Vol.
II., 1817).
Vol. III.: pp. viii. + 9-222 (_Vide supra_, Vol. III., 1817).
Vol. IV.: pp. viii. + 203--Half-title (R. Imprint) (_Vide supra_, Vol.
IV., 1817).
Vol. V.:/ pp. 1-184--Half-title, _The Siege_, etc., one leaf; Title
[The/ Works/ etc./ The Siege of Corinth--Parisina--Poems./ London:/John
Murray, Albemarle-Street,/ 1818./]; Cont. of Vol. V.; Advertisement;
Dedication, "To John Hobhouse, Esq.;" Text, pp. 1-104; The Imprint, _T.
Davison, Lombard-street_,/ Whitefriars, London,/ is at the foot of p.
184.
Vol. VI.: pp. 1-187--Gen. Half-title (R. _T. Davison, Lombard Street,
Whitefriars, London_); Title, one leaf [The Works,/ etc. _In Six Volumes_
(in some copies "In six," etc., does not appear)]; Cont. to Vol. VI.;
Half-title; Text, pp. 1-187, + Publisher's List, pp. 189-192. The
Imprint is at the foot of p. 192.
Vol. VII.: pp. 1-273--Title [The/ Works, etc./ 1819.] (R. _London:/
Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars_/); Cont. to Vol. VII.; Text, pp.
1-273 + Publisher's Advertisement of Historical Illustrations (R.
_London:/ Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars_/).
Vol. VIII.: pp. 1-165--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint); Title [The/ Works,
etc./ 1820]; Cont. to Vol. VIII.; Text, pp. 1-165 + Publisher's List
(ten pages, with Imprint at the foot of p. [10]).
_Note_.--For Contents for Vols. I.-V., _vide supra_, Ed. 1817.
_Contents_--
Vol. VI.: -- Sonnet p. 1
The Prisoner of Chillon (N.) (and six poems, N.) p. 3
To Manfred (N.) p. 67
Lament of Tasso p. 169
Vol. VII.: -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III. (N.) p. 1
Canto IV. (N.) p. 81
Vol. VIII.: -- Beppo (N.) p. 1
Mazeppa p. 57
Ode p. 113
A Fragment p. 127
Romance Muy Doloroso (Transl.) p. 145
Sonetto di Vittorelli (Transl.) p. 162
_Note_.--Vols. I.-IV. of the Edition of 1818 are illustrated by "Twelve
Plates engraved by Charles Heath, and other Artists, from the original
Designs of [Tho.] Stothard." The "original Designs," water-colour
drawings, were presented by Lord Byron to the third Lord Holland, and
are now in the possession of the Earl of Ilchester.
X.
_The Works of the right honourable Lord Byron_. Comprehending all his
suppressed poems. Embellished with a portrait, and a Sketch of his
Lordship's life. Vols. I.-VI. Paris: Published by Galignani, at the
French, English, Italian, German and Spanish library, Nº 18, Rue
Vivienne, 1818, in 12º.
[_Bibliographie de la France_, June 13, 1818.]
XI.
_The Works of Lord Byron_. In Thirteen Volumes. Published by Gerard
Fleischer. Leipzic. 1818-1822. [8º.
[Kayser, _Index Verborum_. 1834. See, too, _Jahrbücher der Literatur_.
Vienna, 1821. Vol. xv. pp. 105-145.]
XII.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II., etc.] London:/ John
Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1819./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. xv. + 479--Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Cont. to Vol.
I., pp. v., vi.; Half-title, with Motto, pp. vii., viii.; Preface, etc.,
pp. ix.-xv.; Text, pp. 1-479. The Imprint (_London:/ Printed by Thomas
Davison, Whitefriars_./) is in the centre of the last page, p. [480].
Vol. II.: pp. 1-491--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint); Title, one leaf;
Cont. to Vol. II.; Text, pp. 1-491; Notes to _Beppo_, p. [493], one leaf.
Vol. III.: pp. viii. + 330--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.;
Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Cont. to Vol. III., pp. v.-viii.; Text,
pp. 1-330. The Imprint is at the foot of the last page, p. 330.
_Note_.--In Vol. I. the text and notes of Cantos I., II. of _Childe
Harold_ are identical with the Eleventh Edition of 1819, the text with
the Tenth Edition of 1815. The text of Cantos III. and IV. is all but
identical with the text of the editions of 1816, 1818, but the notes
have been reset.
_Contents_--
Vol. I.: Childe Harold's, etc. Cantos I., II. (N.) p.1
Canto III. (N.). p. 195
Canto IV. (N.). p. 273
Vol. II.:--The Giaour (N.) p. 1
The Bride of Abydos (N.) p. 79
The Corsair (N.) p. 149
Lara (N.) p. 251
The Siege of Corinth (N.) p. 317
Parisina (N.) p. 373
The Prisoner of Chillon (N.) p. 411
Beppo (N.) p. 439
Vol. III.:--Manfred (N.) p. 1
Hebrew Melodies (23) p. 81
Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (N.) p. 121
Monody, etc. (N.) p. 137
Lament of Tasso p. 147
Poems (N.) p. 163
_Note_.--The _Poems_ include thirty pub. with _Childe Harold_, Ed. 10,
1815; six pub. with the _Corsair_, Ed. 2, 1814; eleven pub. in _Poems_,
1816; _A Sketch_, etc. (now first included); six pub. with _The Prisoner
of Chillon_, 1816, and the translation from the Spanish Ballad
(_Romance_, etc.) and the Italian Sonnet pub. with _Childe Harold_,
Canto IV., 1818-fifty-six pieces in all.
XIII.
The/ Works/ of/ The Right Honourable/ Lord Byron./ Comprehending all his
Suppressed Poems,/ Embellished with a Portrait and a Sketch of His/
Lordship's Life./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II., etc.] Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,/
Cantos I. and II.--The Giaour./ Second Edition./ Paris./ Published by
Galignani,/ At the French, English, Italian, German and Spanish/
Library, No. 18, Rue Vivienne./ 1819 [12º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. viii. + viii. + 276--Title, one leaf; Advertisement, one
leaf; Memoir of the R.H. Lord Byron, pp. i.-viii.; Text, pp. i.-viii.,
9-284. Frontispiece: Portrait of Lord Byron by G. Harlow, Lith. de G.
Engelmann.
Vol. II.: pp. 1-244--Gen. Half-title (R. _Printed by A. Belin_); Title,
one leaf; Text, pp. 1-244.
Vol. III.: pp. 1-230--Gen. Half-title, etc., as above; Text, pp. 1-230.
Vol. IV.: pp. 1-211--Gen. Half-title, etc., as above; Text, pp. 1-211.
Vol. V.: pp. 1-225--Gen. Half-title, as above; Dedication, pp. iii.-x.;
Text, pp. 11-235.
Vol. VI.: pp. 1-130--Gen. Half-title, etc., as above; Text, pp. 1-130 +
six pages of General Index.
_Contents_--
Vol. I.:--Childe Harold's, etc., Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 9
The Giaour (N.) p. 207
Vol. II.:--The Bride, etc. (N.) p. 1
The Corsair (N.) p. 71
Lara (N.) p. 179
Vol. III.:--Ode to N.B. (N.) p. 1
Poems (xxxvi.) (N.) p. 13
Hebrew Melodies p. 79
The Siege, etc. (N.) p. 107
Parisina (N.) p. 163
Poems, 1816 p. 195
Monody, etc. (N.) p. 222
Vol. IV.:--The Prisoner of Chillon, etc. (N.) p. 1
Manfred (N.) p. 51
The Lament of Tasso p. 125
Childe Harold's, etc., Canto IV. (N.) p. 139
Vol. V.:--Childe Harold's, etc., Canto IV. (N.) p. 1
Publisher's Advt. p. [220]
Romance Muy Doloroso (Transl.) p. 221
Sonetto di Vittorelli (Transl.) p. 234
Vol. VI.:--Beppo p. 1
Suppressed Poems: English Bards, etc. p. 47
Ode ("Oh, shame to thee," etc.) p. 121
Windsor Poetics p. 125
A Sketch p. 126
Mazeppa p. 5
Ode (To Venice) p. 47
A Fragment p. 57
_Note_.--Bound up with, and, possibly, an integral part of Vol. VI., is
_Mazeppa_. _Collation_: pp. 1-69. 12º. Half-title (R. _Printed by A.
Belin_); pp 1, 2; Title, one leaf (Mazeppa,/ A Poem.: By Lord Byron./
Second Edition./ Paris:/ Published by Galignani,/ At the French,
English, Italian, German and Spanish/ Library, Nº 18, Rue Vivienne./
1819./), pp. 3, 4; Second half-title; Advertisement, pp. 7, 8; and Text,
pp. 9-69. (For Contents, _vide supra_.)
XIV.
_The Works of the R.H. Lord Byron_. In Six Volumes. Zwickau. Printed for
Brothers Schumann, 1819.
[_Jahrbücher der Lit_.]
XV.
_The Works_, etc. In Seven Volumes. Brussels: published at the English
Repository of Arts, 1819.
[Kölbing.]
XVI.
_Works of Lord Byron_. New York. 1820. Four Volumes. [18º.
[Cat. of Library of _Boston Athenæum_.]
_Contents_--
Vol. I.:--Childe Harold's, etc.
Vol. II.:--Bride, etc.--Corsair--Lara--The Giaour.
Vol. III.:--Siege, etc.--Prisoner of Chillon--Parisina--Beppo--English
Bards, etc.--Mazeppa--Ode--Fragment--Don Juan.
Vol. IV.:--Hebrew Melodies--Ode to N.B.--Monody, etc.--Lament of
Tasso--Manfred--Poems.
XVII.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II., etc.] London:/ John
Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 18217 [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. xvi. + 216--Gen. Half-title (R. (_a_) _Thomas Davison,
Whitefriars_.) pp. i., ii.; Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Cont. to
Vol. I., pp. v., vi.; Preface, etc., pp. vii.-xi.; Text, pp. 1-216. The
Imprint (_b_) (_London:/ Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars_.) is at
the foot of p. 216.
Vol. II.: pp. 1-272--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint (_a_)); Title, one
leaf; Cont. to Vol. II.; Text, pp. 1-237. The Imprint (_b_) is at the
foot of p. 272.
Vol. III.: pp. 1-237--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint (_a_)); Title, one
leaf; Cont. to Vol. III.; Text, pp. 1-237. The Imprint (_b_) is in the
centre of p. [240].
Vol. IV.: pp. 1-274--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint (_a_)); Title, one
leaf; Cont. to Vol. IV.; Text, pp. 1-274. The Imprint (_b_) is in the
centre of p. [276].
Vol. V.: pp. viii. + 284--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint (_a_)), pp. i.,
ii.; Title, one leaf; Cont. to Vol. V., pp.[v.]-viii.; Text, pp. 1-284.
The Imprint (_b_) is at the foot of p. 284.
_Contents_--
Vol. I.:--Childe Harold's, etc., Cantos I., II. (N. App.) p. i.
Vol. II.:--Childe Harold's, etc., Canto III. (N.) p. 1
Canto IV. (N.) p. 77
Vol. III.:--The Giaour (N.) p. 1
The Bride, etc. (N.) p. 75
The Corsair (N.) p. 143
Vol. IV.:--Lara (N.) p. 1
The Siege (N.) p. 63
Parisina p. 117
The Prisoner (N.) p. 153
Beppo (N.) p. 179
Mazeppa p. 235
Vol. V.:--Manfred (N.) p. 1
Hebrew Melodies p. 73
Ode to N.B. (N.) p. 104
Monody, etc. p. 121
Lament of Tasso p. 127
Poems (N.) p. 141
_Note_.--The Poems (fifty-seven in all) include the _Ode to Venice_.
XVIII.
Lord Byron's/ Works./ Volume the First./ [Volume the Second, etc.]
Containing:/ The Bride of Abydos--The Corsair--Lara--/Parisina, etc./
Paris/ Sold by François Louis,/ At his French and English Library,/ Rue
Hautefeuille, Nº 10;/ And Baudry,/ At the Foreign Library,/ Rue du Coq
Saint Honoré, Nº 9./ 1821./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. xii. + 216--Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; "Memoir of Lord
Byron," pp. v.-xii.; Text, pp. 1-216.
Vol. II. pp. 1-240--Title, one leaf; Text, pp. 1-240.
Vol. III.: pp. 1-[224]--Title, one leaf; Text, pp. 1-224 + 4 _n.p._
Vol. IV.: pp. 1-[228]--Title, one leaf; Text, pp. 1-224 + 4 _n.p._
Vol. V.: pp. 1-244--Title, one leaf; Text, pp. 1-244.
_Contents_--
Vol. I.:--The Bride, etc., Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 1
The Corsair, Cantos I.-III. (N.) p. 55
Lara, Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 131
Parisina p. 179
Ode to N.B. p. 203
Ode to Venice p. 211
Vol. II.:--English Bards, etc. p. 1
Don Juan, Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 55
The Giaour (N.) p. 167
Vol. III.:--Childe Harold, Cantos I.-IV.(N.) p. 1
Beppo p. 187
Fare Thee Well p. 219
Darkness p. 221
Stanzas for Music ("There be none," etc.) p. [224]
Vol. IV.:--Siege, etc. (N.) p. 1
Manfred (N.) p. 43
Mazeppa p. 107
Prisoner of Chillon, a Fable, Sonnet, etc. (N.) p. 139
Sonnet ("Rousseau," etc.) p. 160
Lament of Tasso p. 161
Various Poems:[B] A Sketch, etc. (and 34 others) p. 173
Vol. V.:--Hours of Idleness (_i.e._ Poems Original and p. 1
Translated), "The Second English Edition," On Leaving Newstead
Abbey, etc.
Critique, etc. p. 116
Fugitive Pieces (including _Windsor Poetics_, first pub. by p. 163
Murray, and the spurious _Ode_, "Oh, shame to thee," etc.)
The Curse of Minerva (full text) p. 177
Avis ("Le Vampire, faussement attribué à Lord Byron, est de p. 191
_Polidori_, jeune médecin qui a vécu quelque temps à Genève
avec le poëte anglais," etc.)
The Vampyre, A Tale p. 192
Extract of a Letter from Geneva p. 194
Introduction p. 201
The Vampyre p. 207
A Fragment (June 17, 1816) p. 237
FOOTNOTES:
[B] [Six "Hebrew Melodies" are included in Various Poems.]
XIX.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron,/ comprehending the/ Suppressed Poems./
Embellished with a Portrait, And a Sketch of His Life./ Vol. I./ [Vol.
II., etc.] Paris:/ Published by A. and W. Galignani,/ At the French,
English, Italian, German and Spanish Library,/ Nº 18, Rue Vivienne./
1822.7 [8º.
_Collation_--Vol. I.: pp. 106 + 265--Gen. Half-title (R. _Printed by A.
Belin_); Title, one leaf, pp. 1, 2; Contents to Vol. I., pp. 3, 4; _The
Life of Lord Byron_ [By J.W. Lake], pp. 5-106; Text, pp. 1-264.
Vol. XVI: pp. 204--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint); Title, one leaf; Text,
pp. 1-204.
_Contents_--
Vol. I.:--Hours of Idleness p. 1
Translations and Imitations p. 63
Fugitive Pieces p. 97
Critique [E.R. Jan. 1808] p. 153
English Bards, etc. p. 161
Lines written by Mr. Fitzgerald in a copy of _English p. 234
Bards_, etc., with his Lordship's Reply
The Curse of Minerva p. 235
An Ode ("Oh, shame to thee," etc.) p. 255
Windsor Poetics p. 259
A Sketch, etc. p. 260
Vol. XVI.:--The Deformed Transformed p. 1
Transl. of Morgante Maggiore p. 105
Lord Byron's Speeches p. 157
_Note_.--The frontispiece of Vol. I. is an engraving of the Portrait by
G. Sanders.
_Don Juan_ was included in successive volumes in accordance with the
date of publication: Cantos I., II. in Vol. VII.; Cantos III., IV., V.
in Vol. VIII.; Cantos VI.-XI. in Vol. XIV; and Cantos XII.-XVI. in Vol.
XV.
Volumes XIII.-XV. of this Edition were issued in 1823, and Vol. XVI. in
1824.
XX.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ In Four Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II., etc.]
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1823 [8º
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. xi. + 303--Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Gen. Cont., pp.
v., xi.; Cont. of Vol. I.; Text, pp. 1-303. The Imprint (_London:_/
_Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars_/) is in the centre of the last
page.
Vol. II.: pp. 1-359--Title, one leaf; Cont. of Vol. II.; Text, pp.
1-359. The Imprint is in the centre of the last page, p. [360].
Vol. III.: pp. 1-345--Title, one leaf; Cont. of Vol. III.; Text, pp.
1-345; Notes to _Beppo_, one leaf, p. [347]. The Imprint is in the
centre of the last page, p. [348].
Vol. IV.: pp. viii. + 372--Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Cont. of Vol.
IV., pp. v.-viii.; Text, pp. 1-372. The Imprint is at the foot of p.
372.
_Contents_--
Vol. I.:--Childe Harold's, etc., Cantos I., II. (N. App.) p. 1
Canto III. (N.) p. 223
Vol. II.:--Childe Harold's, etc., Canto IV. (N.) p. 1
The Giaour (N.) p. 207
The Bride, etc., Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 287
Vol. III.:--The Corsair, Cantos I.-III. (N.) p. 1
Lara, Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 105
The Siege, etc. (N.) p. 169
Parisina (N.) p. 225
The Prisoner of Chillon, Sonnet (N.) p. 265
Beppo (N.) p. 293
Vol. IV.:--Mazeppa (N.) p. 1
Manfred (N.) p. 43
Hebrew Melodics (N.) p. 121
Ode to N.B. (N.) p. 159
Monody, etc. (N.) p. 175
Lament of Tasso p. 185
Poems (57) (N.) p. 203
_Note_.--This edition of 1823, 4 vols. 8º, differs from the 3 vols. 8º
of 1819, by the addition of _Mazeppa_ and the _Ode to Venice_. The
Front, of Vol. I. is "Lord Byron," by T. Phillips, R.A., engr. by C.
Warren.
XXI.
_The Works of Lord Byron_. In Twelve Vols. Paris: Printed for Baudry,
etc. 1822-1824. [12º.
_Note_.--The _Life and Genius of Lord Byron_, by Sir Cosmo Gordon, is
affixed to the twelfth volume. See _La France Littéraire_, by J.M.
Quérard. 1827.
XXII.
_The Works of Lord Byron_, comprehending the suppressed Poems.
Embellished with a portrait, and a sketch of his life. In Twelve
Volumes. Printed by A. Belin. Published by Galignani. 1823. [12º.
[_B. de la F._, May 24, 1823.]
XXIII.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Vol. V./ Containing/ Hours of
Idleness--Fugitive Pieces--English/ Bards and Scotch
Reviewers--Waltz--/Miscellaneous Poems, etc./ London:/ Knight and Lacey,
Paternoster-Row./ 1824./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. V.: pp. xiii. + 154 + 9 + vi. + 57 + vii. + 61--Gen. Half-title;
Title (R. _T.C. Hansard, Paternoster-Row Press_); Preface; Cont., pp.
[i.]-xiii.; Second Half-title; Text, pp. 2-154, etc.
_Note_.--The Imprint (_T.C. Hansard/ Paternoster-Row_/) is at the foot
of the last page (p. 62). Four pages (_n.p._) of publishers' list of
Sherwood, Jones & Co., etc., dated London, June, 1824, are bound up with
Vol. V.
Vol. VI.: pp. vi. + 308 + 2 pages (_n.p._)--Gen. Half-title; Title [The/
etc. In Seven Volumes./ Vol. VI./ London:/ Printed for John and Henry L.
Hunt,/ Tavistock Street./ 1824./] (R. _London:/ Printed By C.H. Reynell,
Broad-Street, Golden-Square_/); Second Half-title; Dedication; Preface,
pp. i.-vi.; Dramatis Personæ, p. [viii.] (_B.A._); Text, pp. 9-308; Note
to the Translation of the _Morgante Maggiore_, one leaf, pp. [309, 310].
Vol. VII.: pp. 1-286--Gen. Half-title; Title [The, etc./
Tavistock-Street./ 1825./], (R. Imprint as above); Text, pp. 1-286.
_Contents_--
Vol. V.:--Hours of Idleness p. 1
Review, etc. p. 1
English Bards, etc. p. i.
Waltz [N] p. i.
Ode ("Oh, shame to thee," etc.) p. 19
Adieu to Malta p. 23
Madame Lavalette p. 26
The Curse of Minerva (111 lines) p. 28
Farewell to England p. 35
To my Daughter, etc. p. 46
Ode to ... St. Helena p. 50
To the Lily of France p. 53
To Jessy p. 56
To T. Moore, Esq. ("My Boat," etc.) p. 58
Lines to Mr. Hobhouse p. 60
Enigma [H.] p. 61
Vol. VI.:--Werner p. i.
Heaven and Earth p. 197
Transl. of Morgante Maggiore (Advt.) p. 259
Vol. VII.:--The Age of Bronze p. 1
The Island p. 37
Appendix (Extract from the Voyage of Capt. Bligh) p. 109
The Vision of Judgment p. 125
Appendix (Court of King's Bench, Thursday, January 15, 1824. p. 187
The King _v_. John Hunt)
The Deformed Transformed p. 191
_Note_ (1).--In Vol. V. the pagination of the "Postscript" of _English
Bards, etc._, pp. 45-47, is incorrect.
_Note_ (2).--In Vol. VII. (pp. 125, _sq_.) in the edition of the _Vision
of Judgment_, issued after the verdict in the case of the King _v._ John
Hunt, January 15, 1824, stanzas viii., ix. (lines 1, 2), xliii. (lines
1-6), xliv., xlv. (lines 1-6), xlvii. (lines 4, 8), are omitted in the
text, but are quoted in the report of the trial.
_Note_ (3).--The following slip, headed "Notice to the Binder," is
inserted between a fly-leaf and the general half-title of Vols. VI.,
VII.: "_In order that each purchaser of the two concluding volumes of
Lord Byron's Works may be enabled with them to complete his particular
set,--whatever edition he possesses, an extra Title-page is given with
each--there being several editions in print, comprising the same marks
in different numbers of volumes. In binding these two last volumes,
therefore, the binder should be instructed which of the Title-pages to
retain._" Four pages (_n.p._) consisting of General Half-title (_B.R._)
and Title-page as above [In Eight volumes./ Vol. VII., Vol. VIII./] with
Imprint as above, at foot of Reverse, are bound up with Vols. VI., VII.
Volume VIII. was not issued.
XXIV.
_The Works_, etc. In Eight Volumes. London: John Murray, etc., 1825.
[Small] 8º.
XXV.
The/ Works /of/ Lord Byron./ In Six Volumes./ Vol. V./ London:/ John
Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1825./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. V.: pp. 1-404--Title, one leaf; Cont. of Vol. V.; Text, pp. 1-404.
The Imprint (_London:/ Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars_/) is at
the foot of p. 404.
Vol. VI.: pp. viii. + 319--Title, one leaf; Cont. of Vol. VI.; Text, pp
1-319. The Imprint is in the centre of the last page, p. [320].
_Contents_--
Vol. V.:--Marino Faliero (N. App.) p. 1
Prophecy of Dante, Cantos I.-IV. (N.) p. 243
Cain p. 291
Vol. VI.:--Sardanapalus (N) p. 1
The Two Foscari (App.) p. 171
XXVI.
The/ Complete Works/ of/ Lord Byron/ With/ A Biographical and Critical
notice/ By J.W. Lake, Esq./ Vol. I. [Vol. II., etc.] Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage./ [Monogram.] Paris/ From the Press of Jules Didot senior,/
vi, Rue Du Pont-de-Lodi./ Published by Baudry, Rue du
Coq-Saint-Honoré,/ And Amyot, Rue De La Paix./ 1825./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. c. + 353--Title, one leaf; Cont. of the First Vol.; A
Biographical, etc., pp. i.-c.; Text, pp. 1-353.
Vol. II.: pp. 1-432--Title, one leaf; Cont. of the Second Vol.; Text,
pp. 1-432.
Vol. III.: pp. 1-466--Title, one leaf; Cont. of the Third Vol.; Text,
pp. 1-466.
Vol. IV.: pp. 1-426--Title, one leaf; Cont. of the Fourth Vol.; Text,
pp. 1-426.
Vol. V.: pp. 1-435--Title, one leaf; Cont. of the Fifth Vol.; Text, pp.
1-435; Note to Cain, one leaf, p. [437].
Vol. VI.: pp. vii. + 529--Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Cont. of the
Sixth Vol., pp. v.-viii.; Text, pp. 1-529.
Vol. VII.: pp. viii. + 528--Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Cont. of the
Seventh Vol., pp. v.-viii.; Text, pp. 1-528.
_Note_.--The Frontispiece of Vol. I. is an engraving of the Portrait of
Lord Byron by G. Sanders.
_Contents_--
Vol. I.:--A Biographical, etc. p. i
Childe Harold's, etc., Cantos I.-III (N.) p. 1
Dedication p. 205
Canto IV. (N.) p. 213
Vol. II.:--Don Juan, Cantos I.-V. (N.) p. 1
Preface to Cantos VI., VII., VIII. p. 301
Cantos VI.-VIII. (N.) p. 307
Vol. III.:--Don Juan, etc., etc.
Canto IX. (N.) p. 1
Canto XVI. (N.) p. 247
Beppo (N.) p. 295
The Vision of Judgment (N.) p. 333
The Giaour (N.) p. 373
Parisina p. 435
Vol. IV.:--Manfred (N.) p. 1
Marino Faliero (N.), Preface, etc. p. 267
Vol. V.:--The Two Foscari (N.) p. 1
Appendix p. 123
Werner (N.) p. 143
Cain (N.) p. 331
Vol. VI.:--Heaven and Earth (N.) p. i
The Deformed, etc. (N.) p. 53
The Bride, etc. (N.) p. 133
The Corsair (N.) p. 193
Lara (N.) p. 279
The Siege, etc. (N.) p. 331
The Prisoner of Chillon (N.), Sonnet, etc. p. 377
Mazeppa (N.), Advt., etc. p. 399
The Island (N.), Advt., etc. p. 435
The Lament of Tasso, Advt. p. 517
Vol. VII.:--The Prophecy of Dante (N.), Dedication, etc. p. 1
The Age of Bronze (N.) p. 45
The Curse of Minerva (N.) p. 77
Hours of Idleness p. 95
Critique, etc. p. 211
English Bards, etc., Preface p. 221
Hebrew Melodies p. 277
Miscellaneous Poems, and The Dream, etc. p. 301
Morgante Maggiore (N.), Advt. p. 439
Letter to * * * p. 475
Parliamentary Speeches, Debate on the Framework Bill p. 505
_Note_.--The Miscellaneous Poems (67) include the following forgeries:
Ode ("Oh, shame to thee," etc.), p. 345; Madame Lavalette, p. 349;
Farewell to England, p. 356; To my Daughter, P. 366.
XXVII.
_Works of Lord Byron. Philadelphia_. 1825. Eight Vols. [8º.
_Contents_--
Vol. I.:--Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
Vol. II.:--Giaour--Two Foscari--Werner.
Vol. III.:--Bride, etc.--Corsair--Cain, a Mystery--Sardanapalus.
Vol. IV.:--Lara--English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers--Marino
Faliero-Siege, etc.--Prisoner of Chillon--Song.
Vol. V.:--Manfred--Parisina--Deformed Transformed--Vision of
Judgment--Beppo--Age of Bronze--Heaven and Earth--Curse of Minerva, etc.
Vol. VI.:--Mazeppa--The Dream--The Island--Prophecy of Dante--Lament of
Tasso--Ode to Buonaparte--Monody, etc.--Hebrew Melodies--Miscellaneous
Poems.
Vols. VII., VIII.:--Don Juan.
[Catalogue of the Boston Athenæum Library, 1874.]
XXVIII.
_The Works of the R.H. Lord Byron_. In Eight Vols. New York: published
by Wm. Borrodaile, at his wholesale Book Store, 114, Fulton Street.
1825.
[Kölbing.]
XXIX.
_The Works of Lord Byron_. Complete in Thirty-two Volumes. Published by
the Brothers Schumann, Zwickau. 1825-1827. [16º.
_Note_.--Vol. XXXIII. was issued in 1838. [Kayser, 1841.]
XXX.
_The Works of Lord Byron_, comprising the suppressed poems. In Thirteen
Volumes. Paris. Printed by Didot aîné. Published by A. and W.
Galignani, No. 18, Rue Vivienne. 1826. [32º.
[_B. de la F._, June 3, 1826.]
XXXI.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron/ Including/ The Suppressed Poems./ Complete
in one volume/. Paris:/ Published by A. and W. Galignani,/ No. 18, Rue
Vivienne./ 1826./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xliii. + 716--Gen. Half-title (R. _Printed by Jules Didot, Senior,/
Printer to his Majesty, Rue du Pont de Lodi, Nº 6_/); Title-page, one
leaf, pp. i., ii.; Cont., pp. iii., iv.; The Life of Lord Byron [by J.W.
Lake], pp. v.-xliii.; Text, pp. 1-716.
The Front. is a Portrait of Lord Byron by F. Sieurac, engr. by J.T.
Wedgwood. The Title-vignette is a harp, etc., resting on foliage (bays
and oak leaves).
The Facsimile of the Letter from Lord Byron to M. Galignani, dated
Venice, April 27, 1819, is inserted between the "Contents" and the
"Life," etc.
_Note_ (1).--Among MISCELLANEOUS POEMS are _The Irish Avatar_, p. 515;
_Ode_ ("Oh, shame to thee," etc.), p. 539; _Windsor Poetics_, p. 540;
and _Carmina Byronis in C. Elgin_, p. 541. The Volume concludes (pp.
711-716) with _Poems Attributed to Lord Byron_, viz.--
Childish Recollections (32 lines) p. 711
Lord Byron to his Lady ("How strangely," etc.) ib.
Ode to the Island of St. Helena ib.
To the Lily of France p. 712
Madame Lavalette ib.
Adieu to Malta ib.
Enigma ("'Twas whispered," etc.) p. 713
The Triumph of the Whale ib.
To Jessy ib.
To my Daughter p. 714
To Lady Caroline Lamb p. 715
The Farewell ("When man compelled," etc.) ib.
Lines ("Would you get to the House," etc.) ib.
Verses ("All hail, Mont Blanc," etc.) ib.
To a Lady ("And wilt thou weep," etc.) p. 716
Stanzas ("I heard thy fate," etc.)[C] ib.
Lines found in the Travellers' Book at Chamouni ib.
Lines found in Lord Byron's Bible[D] ib.
_Note_ (2).--This edition was reissued, in 1827, on different paper. An
impression of the portrait by F. Sieurac, in an unfinished state,
precedes the Frontispiece.
FOOTNOTES:
[C] "Stanzas" were published _Poetical Works_, 1899, iii. 425, 426, with
the title, "On the Death of the Duke of Dorset." Note (I) on p. 425 is
incorrect.
[D] "Lines Found in Lord Byron's Bible" are by Sir Walter Scott (see
_Monastery_, chap. xii.).
XXXII.
_The Works_, etc. Complete. One Vol. Frankfort o. M. Printed by and for
H.L. Broenner. 1826. 4º, pp. xvi. + 776.
[Kölbing.]
_Note_.--A Second Edition, pp. xlvi. + 804, including _Morgante
Maggiore_ and _Parliamentary Speeches_, was issued in 1829, _vide post_,
No. xl.; and a third, pp. xxx. + 784, including _Francesca di Rimini,
Hints from Horace_, and _The Blues_, etc., in 1837. According to Kayser,
the First Edition appeared in 1827, a second in 1829, and a third,
"considerably augmented," in 1837.
XXXIII.
_The Works_, etc. In Six Volumes. London: John Murray, etc. 1827. [Small
8º.
[Kölbing.]
XXXIV.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ In Four Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II., etc.]
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1828./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. ix. + 362--Gen. Half-title, Works/ of/ Lord/ Byron./ (R.
_London: Printed by Thomas Davison Whitefriars_/), pp. i., ii.; Title,
one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Gen. Cont., pp. v.-ix.; Cont. of Vol. I.
(_n.p._); Text, pp. 1-362.
The Front., "Lord Byron," is engr. by E. Finden from a portrait by G.
(_sic_) Phillips, R.A.
Vol. II.: pp. 1-424--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint); Cont. of Vol. II.;
Text, pp. 1-424. The Imprint is at the foot of p. 424.
The Front., "Medora" (_Corsair_, i. 379), is engr. by E. Finden from a
drawing by H. Corbould.
Vol. III.: pp. vii. + 383--Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.; Title,
one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Cont. of Vol. III., pp. v.-vii.; Text, pp.
1-383. The Imprint is in the centre of the last page, p. [384].
The Front., "Lord Byron" ("When late I saw thy ... child"), is engr. by
E. Finden from a drawing by H. Corbould.
Vol. IV.: pp. 1-429--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint); Title, one leaf;
Cont. of Vol. IV.; Text, pp. 1-429. The Imprint is in the centre of the
last page, p. [430].
The Front., "Sardanapalus" (act iv. sc. 1, line 1), is engr. by E.
Finden from a drawing by H. Corbould.
_Contents_--
Vol. I.:--Childe Harold's, etc., Cantos I.-IV. (N.) p. 1
Vol. II.:--The Giaour (N.) p. 1
The Corsair, Cantos I.-III. (N.) p. 61
Lara, Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 143
The Bride, etc., Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 195
Siege, etc. (N.) p. 253
Parisina (N.) p. 299
The Prisoner of Chillon, Sonnet, etc. (N.) p. 331
Beppo (N.) p. 353
Mazeppa p. 391
Vol. III.:--Manfred (N.) p. 1
Hebrew Melodies: "She walks in beauty" (and 22 others) p. 61
Ode to N.B. (N.) p. 89
Monody, etc. p. 99
Lament of Tasso p. 105
Poems: Written in an Album (and 55 others) p. 119
Ode [to Venice] p. 249
Notes to the Poems p. 255
Prophecy of Dante, Cantos I.-IV. (N.) p. 259
Cain p. 299
Vol. IV.:--Marino Faliero (App.) p. 1
Sardanapalus (N.) p. 175
The Two Foscari (App.) p. 303
XXXV.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron/ Including/ The Suppressed Poems./ Complete
in One Volume./ Paris:/ Published by A. and W. Galignani,/ No. 18, Rue
Vivienne./ 1828./ 8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xl. + 718.
_Note_.--This edition closely corresponds with that issued by A. and W.
Galignani in 1826-7, _q.v. ante_, No. xxxi. The "Life of Lord Byron," by
J.W. Lake, is abbreviated and corrected. Among ATTRIBUTED POEMS are the
following additions: _A Drinking Song_ ("Fill the goblet," etc.), p.
716; _Remember Thee_, _ibid_.; _To Mary_ ("Remind me not," etc.), p.
717; Verses ("There was a time," etc.), _ibid_.; _On Leaving England_,
_ibid._; and the following omissions: Verses ("All hail, Mont Blanc,"
etc.), 1826, p. 715; and _Lines found in Lord Byron's Bible_, 1826, p.
716.
XXXVI.
_The Works of Lord Byron_. Complete in One Volume. Title-Vignette.
Published by Broenner, Frankfort. 1828, 8º.
_Note_.--A Second Edition was issued in 1829, and a third, "considerably
augmented," in 1837. [Kayser.]
XXXVII.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ In Six Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II., etc.]
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1829./ 8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.:--Gen. Half-title, "Byron" (R. _London: Printed by Thomas
Davison, Whitefriar's_), pp. i., ii; Title, one leaf, pp. iii, iv.;
General Cont., pp. v.-ix.; Cont. of Vol. I., _n.p._; Text, pp. 1-235.
The Imprint is in the centre of the last page, p. [236].
Vol. II.: Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint); Title, one leaf; Cont. of Vol.
II.; Text, pp. 1-297. The Imprint is in the centre of the last page, p.
[300].
Vol. III.: Gen. Half-title, etc., as in Vol. II.; Text pp. 1-282. The
Imprint is in the centre of the last page, p. [284].
Vol. IV.: pp. vii. + 275--Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.; Title,
one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Cont. of Vol. IV., pp. v.-vii.; Text, pp.
1-275. The Imprint is in the centre of the last page, p. [276].
Vol. V.: Half-title, etc., as in Vol. II.; Text, pp. 1-26. The Imprint
is at the foot of p. 264.
Vol. VI.: pp. viii. + 266--Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.; Title,
one leaf, pp. iii, iv.; Cont. of Vol. VI. (_B.R._), pp. v., vi.;
Preface, pp. vii., viii.; Text, pp. 1-266. The Imprint is in the centre
of the last page, p. [268].
_Contents_--
Vol. I.:--Childe Harold's, etc., Cantos I.-III. (Pref. N.) p. 1
Vol. II.:--Childe Harold's, etc., Canto IV. (N.) p. 1
The Giaour (N.) p. 157
The Corsair, Cantos I.-III. (N.) p. 217
Vol. III.:--Lara, Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 1
The Bride, etc., Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 53
Siege, etc. (N.) p. 111
Parisina (N.) p. 157
The Prisoner, etc. (Sonnet, N.) p. 189
Beppo (N.) p. 211
Mazeppa p. 249
Vol. IV.:--Manfred (N.) p. 1
Hebrew Melodies: "She walks," etc. (and 21 others) p. 61
Ode to N.B. (N.) p. 85
Monody, etc. p. 95
Lament of Tasso p. 101
Poems: Written in an Album (and 56 others) (N.) p. 115
Prophecy of Dante, Cantos I.-IV. (N.) p. 235
Vol. V.:--Marino Faliero (A) p. 1
Cain p. 179
Vol. VI.:-Sardanapalus (N.) p. 1
The Two Foscari (A) p. 135
Notes to Captain Medwin's, etc. p. 253
XXXVIII.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ In Four Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II., etc.]
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1829./ 12º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.:--Gen. Half-title, "Byron" (R. (_a_) _Printed by Thomas Davison,
Whitefriars_); Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Gen. Cont., pp. v.-x.;
Cont. of Vol. I., _n.p._; Text, pp. 1-357. The Imprint (_b_) (_London:/
Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars_/), is in the centre of the last
page, p. [360].
Vol. II.: pp. 1-424--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint (_a_)); Title, one
leaf; Cont. of Vol. II.; Text, pp. 1-424. The Imprint (_b_) is at the
foot of p. 424.
Vol. III.:--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint (_a_)); Title, one leaf, pp.
iii., iv.; Cont. of Vol. III., pp. v.-viii.; Text, pp. 1-383. The
Imprint (_b_) is at the foot of the last page, p. [384].
Vol. IV.: pp. 1-412--Half-title (R. Imprint (_a_)); Title, one leaf;
Cont. of Vol. IV.; Text, pp. 1-412. The Imprint (_b_) is at the foot of
p. 412.
_Contents_--
The Cont. of Vols. I., II., III. of the Edition of 1829 are identical
with the Cont. of Vols. I., II., III. of the Edition of 1828. The
pagination of the Text 1829 follows the pagination of the Text 1828, but
the type of 1829 is not the type of 1828.
Vol. IV. (1829):--Marino Faliero p. 1
Appendix p. 147
Sardanapalus (N.) p. 161
The Two Foscari p. 289
Appendix p. 381
Notes on Captain Medwin's "Conversations of Lord Byron" p. 401
_Note_.--The original Italian and French Versions of the _Cronica di
Sanuto_, and the extracts from the works of P. Daru and P.L. Ginguené,
which appeared in 1828, are omitted in 1829, and the notes (by John
Murray) on Captain Medwin's _Conversations, etc._ (1824), are inserted.
XXXIX.
_The Poetic Works_, etc., including his _Don Juan_--all his minor poems,
and the suppressed pieces of _Cain_, and the _V. of Judgment_, all
complete. In Two Vols. Second Edition. Philadelphia: Published by the
Washington Press. 1829. [4º and 6º.
XL.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Complete/ In One Volume./ [Title-vignette,
"Ship in Storm," engraved on steel by C. Tremonet.] The Second Edition,
considerably augmented./ Francfort O.M./ Printed by and for H.L.
Broenner./ 1829./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xlvi + Cont., one leaf + 804--Title, one leaf; _Life_, etc., by J.W.
Lake, pp. i.-xli. + A Character of Lord Byron, by Sir W. Scott, pp.
xlii., xliii. + "Goethe und Byron" (including the stanzas "Ein
freundlich Wort," etc.) + "Lord Byron's Last Lines," pp. xliv.-xlivi. +
Cont., one leaf, _n.p._ + Text, pp. 1-804.
_Note_.--The Miscellaneous Poems include Ode "Oh, shame to thee," etc.,
and On Sir John Moore's Burial, p. 650. The ATTRIBUTED POEMS are
identical with those published in Paris, 1826 (No. xxxi.), except that
they include To Miss Chaworth ("Remind me not," etc.), and exclude Lines
Found in Lord Byron's Bible. The Notes to _Childe Harold's, etc._, and
other poems are printed continuously, pp. 715-792. _The Waltz_, together
with the _Notes_, is on pp. 795-798.
XLI.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ In Four Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II., etc.]
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1830./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. ix. + 359--Title (R. (_a_) _Thomas Davison, London._), pp.
i., ii.; General Cont., pp. iii.-ix.; Cont. of Vol. I., p. x.; Text, pp.
1-359. The Imprint (_b_) (_London:/ Printed by Thomas Davison,
Whitefriars_/) is in the centre of the last page, p. [360].
The Frontispiece, "Lord Byron," is engraved by E. Finden from a portrait
by T. Phillips, R.A.
Vol. II.: pp. iv. + 424--Title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.; Cont. of Vol.
II., pp. iii., iv.; Text, pp. 1-383. The Imprint (_b_) is at the foot of
p. 424.
Vol. III.: pp. vi. + 383--Title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.; Cont. of Vol.
III., pp. iii.-vi.; Text, pp. 1-383. The Imprint (_b_) is in the centre
of the last page, p. [384].
Vol. IV.: pp. 1-415--Title (R. Imprint); Cont. of Vol. IV., one leaf;
Text, pp. 1-415. The Imprint (_b_) is in the centre of the last page, p.
[384].
The Front, of Vol. II. is that of Vol. II., ed. 1828; the Front. of Vol.
III. that of Vol. IV., 1828; and the Front. of Vol. IV. that of Vol.
III., 1828.
_Note_.--The Cont. of Vols. I.-IV., 1830, are identical with the Cont.
of Vols. I.-IV., 1829. The Notes have been partly re-set.
XLII.
_The Complete Works_, etc., including his lordship's suppressed poems
with others never before published. (With portrait and _fac-simile_.)
Paris, Galignani, 1830. [12º.
[Quérard, 1846.]
XLIII.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ In Six Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II., etc.]
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1831./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Vols. I.-IV. of Ed. 1831 are identical with Vols. I.-IV. of Ed. 1830.
The Frontispieces of Vols. III., IV., which were transposed in Ed. 1830,
are restored to their original position, as in Ed. 1828.
Vol. V.: pp. xii. + 475--Gen. Half-title (R. (_a_) _Thomas Davison,
London_), pp. i., ii.; Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Editor's Advt. to
_Hours of Idleness_, pp. v.-vii.; Cont. of Vol. V., pp. ix.-xii.; Text,
pp. 1-475; Publisher's Advt. of the Life of Lord Byron (2 Vols. 4to)....
by Thomas Moore, Esq., p. [477]. The Imprint (_b_) (_London:/ Printed by
Thomas Davison, Whitefriars_:/) is in the centre of p. 476.
The Frontispiece, "Heaven and Earth," is engr. by E. Finden from a
drawing by H. Richter.
Vol. VI.: pp. viii. + 459--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.;
Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Cont. to Vol. VI., pp. v.-viii.; Text,
pp. 1-459. The Imprint (_b_) is in the centre of the last page, p.
[460].
The Frontispiece, "The Island," is engr. by E. Finden from a drawing by
H. Richter.
_Contents_--
Vol. V.:--Hours of Idleness: Preface, etc. p. 1
On leaving Newstead Abbey (and 64 others) p. 11
Critique from _Edinb. Rev._ p. 203
English Bards, etc. p. 209
Hints from Horace p. 273
The Curse of Minerva p. 329
The Waltz p. 345
Age of Bronze p. 365
The Vision of Judgment p. 397
Morgante Maggiore p. 441
Vol. VI.:--Werner p. 1
The Deformed Transformed p. 157
Heaven and Earth p. 227
The Island: Cantos I.-IV. App. p. 277
Poems:
The Blues p. 351
Fragment ("Hills of Annesly") p. 368
The Prayer of Nature ib.
Fragment ("Young Oak," etc., 10 lines) p. 371
On Revisiting Harrow p. 372
L'amitie, etc. p. 373
To my Son p. 377
Epitaph on John Adams p. 379
Fragment ("Forget this World," etc.) (20 lines) p. 380
To Mrs. ---- ("When man expell'd," etc.) p. 381
A Love-song ("Remind," etc.) p. 382
Stanzas to ---- ("There was a time," etc.) p. 383
To the Same ("And wilt thou weep," etc.) p. 384
Song ("Fill the goblet," etc.) p. 386
Stanzas to ---- on leaving England p. 387
Lines to Mr. Hodgson p. 390
Epistle to ("Oh, banish," etc.) p. 393
The Devil's Drive p. 396
Additional stanzas to the Ode to Napoleon p. 400
Stanzas for Music ("I speak not," etc.) p. 401
Address--at the Caledonian Meeting p. 402
Lines--for the opening of "The Siege of Corinth" p. 404
Extract, "Could I remount," etc. p. 406
To Augusta p. 407
On the bust of Helen by Canova p. 413
To Thomas Moore ("My boat," etc.) ib.
To Mr. Murray ("Strahan," etc.) p. 414
Stanzas to the River Po p. 416
The Irish Avatar p. 419
On the Prince Regent's returning the picture, etc. p. 425
To Belshazzar p. 427
Sonnet to George the Fourth p. 428
Francesca of Rimini p. 429
Stanzas ("Oh, talk not to me," etc.) p. 431
To the Countess of B--- p. 432
Lines from a letter to T. Moore ("So we'll," etc.) p. 434
Epistle to Dr. [Polidori] ib.
Ep. ("My dear Mr. Murray") p. 437
To Mr. J. Murray ("For Oxford," etc.) p. 439
On this Day, etc. p. 440
From the Portuguese p. 442
Paraphrase from ... the _Medea_ p. 443
Epitaph ("Youth, Nature," etc.) ib.
On Moore's Last ... Farce p. 444
On Lord T.'s poems ib.
To Lord T. p. 445
To Thomas Moore ("Oh, you," etc.) p. 446
Fragment of an Ep. to T. Moore ("What say I," etc.) p. 447
On Napoleon's Escape from Elba p. 449
Fragment ... On hearing that Lady Byron was ill (6 lines) ib.
To Thomas Moore ("What are you," etc.) ib.
Song for the Luddites p. 450
Versicles p. 451
To Mr. Murray ("To hook," etc.) ib.
On the birth of J.W.R. Hoppner p. 452
Epigram (from Rulhieres) (_sic_) p. 453
Epigr. ("To-day it is," etc.) ib.
Epigr. ("Here's a Happy," etc.) ib.
Epigr. ("This day of all," etc.) p. 454
Endorsement to the deed, etc. ib.
Epitaph for William Pitt ib.
Epigr. ("In digging," etc.) p. 455
Stanzas ("When a man," etc.) ib.
On his Thirty-third Birthday ib.
Epigr. ("The Brasiers," etc.) p. 456
Epigr. ("The world," etc.) ib.
The Charity Ball p. 457
Impromptu ib.
Windsor Poetics p. 458
Lines in the Travellers' Book at Orchomenus ib.
_Note_.--List of publications by John Murray, January 4, 1831--"A fifth
and sixth vol. of Lord Byron's Works: containing _E.B., etc., Heaven &
E., The Def. Trans., The Island_, etc., etc., forming the portion of the
Works recently purchased by Mr. Murray, and rendering them the first and
only complete edition (_Don Juan_ being alone excepted). 2 vols. 12º.
Printed for the first time, to match with the Edition of Lord Byron's
Works in 4 vols. 18º."
XLIV.
The/ Complete works/ of/ Lord Byron,/ Including/ his Lordship's
Suppressed Poems,/ With others never before published./ In one Volume./
Paris./ Published by A. and W. Galignani,/ No. 18, Rue Vivienne./ 1831./
[8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxiv. + 730--Half-title (R. _Printed by J. Smith, Rue Montmorency,
Paris_./); Title, one leaf; Cont., pp. i.-iv.; The Life of Lord Byron
[abridged from the _Life_ by J.W. Lake] pp. v.-xxiv.; Text, pp. 1-730.
The Frontispiece, a portrait of Lord Byron, engr. by J.T. Wedgwood from
a painting by W.E. West, in arabesque frame, rests on miniatures of
Newstead Abbey and Missolunghi (_sic_) designed by F. Sieurac. The
Title-vignette is tomb, harp, willows, etc. A lithograph of letter,
April 27, 1819, to the Editor of _Galignani's Messenger_, is inserted
between the _Life_ and the Text.
_Contents_--
This edition includes Hours of Idleness (Sec. Ed.), _English Bards_,
etc., _The Curse of Minerva_, _The Waltz_, all poems published by John
Murray before 1831, a selection of poems included in Moore's _Notices of
the Life_, etc., poems published by John Hunt, Letter to ... on Bowles'
Strictures on Pope, Fragment, Parliamentary Speeches, and the following
spurious and additional poems:--
Madame Lavalette p. 699
Ode ("Oh, shame to thee," etc.) p. 705
_Carmina Byronis in C. Elgin_ p. 707
Ode to the Island of St. Helena ib.
Enigma on the letter H p. 708
To Jessy ib.
To my Daughter p. 709
Lines to Mr. Hobhouse p. 710
Lines found in the Travellers' book at Chamouni ib.
Stanzas to her who can best understand them p. 712
In the Valley of Waters p. 713
Francesca ib.
Faith, Wisdom, Love and Power ib.
Thermopylæ p. 714
Song, "Do you know Dr. Nott?" p. 716
To Mr. Hobhouse, "What made you," etc. (20 lines) p. 717
Enigma on the letter I p. 720
To Memory ("Oh, memory," etc.) p. 721
To my dear Mary Anne ib.
On an Old Lady ("In Nottingham," etc.) p. 722
_Note_.--Among the ATTRIBUTED POEMS are To the Lily of France, p. 729;
The Triumph of the Whale, _ib._; To Lady C. Lamb, _ib._; Stanzas ("I
heard thy fate," etc.), p. 730.
XLV.
_The Works_, etc., including the suppressed poems. Also a Sketch of his
Life. By J.W. Lake. Complete in one Vol. Philadelphia. Published by
Henry Adams and sold by John Griggs. 1831. [4º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxix. + 176.
XLVI.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron:/ With/ His Letters and Journals,/ And His
Life,/ By Thomas Moore, Esq./ In Fourteen Volumes./ Vol. I. [Vol. II.,
etc.] London:/ John Murray, Albemarle Street./ 183./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. xv. + 359--Title (R. Imprint, _London:/ Printed by A.
Spottiswoode,/ New-Street-Square_./), pp. i., ii.; Cont. of Vol. I., pp.
iii., iv.; Half-title, pp. v., vi.; Dedication to Sir W. Scott, pp.
vii., viii.; Preface to the First Vol. of First Ed., pp. ix., x.;
Preface to the Sec. Vol., pp. xi.-xv.; Text (_Notices of the Life of
Lord Byron_), pp. 1-359.
The Frontispiece, "Lord Byron at the Age of 19," is engr. by W. Finden
from the portrait by G. Sanders: the Title-vignette, "Cadiz," is engr.
by E. Finden from a drawing by C. Stansfield.
Vol. II.: pp. 1-341--The Frontispiece "Tepaleen," is engr. by F. Finden
from a drawing by W. Purser; the Title-vignette, "Constantinople," is
engr. by E. Finden from a drawing by C. Stansfield.
Vol. III.: pp. 1-376--The Front., "Marathon," and the Title-vignette, "A
Street in Athens," are engr. by E. Finden from drawings by C.
Stansfield.
Vol. IV.: pp. 1-359--The Front., "The Wengen Alps," and the
Title-vignette, "The Coliseum from the Orto Farnese," are engr. by E.
Finden from drawings by J.D. Harding.
Vol. V.: pp. 1-376--The Front., "S^ta^ Maria Dalla Spina," is engr. by
E. Finden from a drawing by J.M.W. Turner, R.A.; the Title-vignette, the
"Hellespont," is engr. by E. Finden from a drawing by J.D. Harding.
Vol. VI.: pp. 1-416--The Front., "Newstead Abbey" [from the Monk's
Garden], and the Title-vignette, "The Fountain at Newstead Abbey," are
engr. by E. Finden from drawings by W. Westall, A.R.A.
Vol. VII.: pp. xv. + 319--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.;
Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Advt. (editorial, June, 1832), pp.
v.-vii.; Cont. of Vol. VII., pp. ix.-xv.; Text, pp. 1-319. The Imprint
is in the centre of the last page, p. [320].
The Front., "The Gate of Theseus," and the Title-vignette, "The Plains
of Troy," are engr. by E. Finden from drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. A
facsimile of the two first stanzas of To D---- faces p. 12.
Vol. VIII.: pp. x. + 328--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.;
Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Advt. (editorial, July 20, 1832), pp.
v.-x.; Cont. of Vol. VIII., _n.p._; Text, pp. 1-328. The Imprint is at
the foot of p. 328.
The Front., "Bacharach," and the Title-vignette, "The Castle of St.
Angelo," are engr. by E. Finden from drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. A
facsimile of _Childe Harold's, etc._, Canto III. stanza xci. faces p.
174. In earlier copies the facsimile faced p. [viii.] of Vol. IX. See
Note on reverse of p. vii. of that volume.
Vol. IX.: pp. vii. + 360--Title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.; Advt.
(editorial, July 20, 1832), pp. iii., iv.; Cont. of Vol. IX., pp.
v.-vii.; Text, pp. 1-360. The Imprint is at the foot of p. 360.
The Front., "Petrarch's Tomb," is engr. by E. Finden from a drawing by
J.M.W. Turner, R.A.; the Title-vignette, "Seville," is engr. by E.
Finden.
Vol. X.: pp. xix. + 316--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.;
Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Advt. (editorial, September 16, 1832),
pp. v.-xiii.; Cont. of Vol. X., pp. xv.-xix.; Text, pp. 1-316. The
Imprint is at the foot of p. 316.
The Front., "Corinth," is engr. by E. Finden from drawings by J.M.W.
Turner, R.A., and W. Page; the Title-vignette, "Athens and the Island of
Egina," is engr. by E. Finden from drawings by C. Stansfield and W.
Page.
Vol. XI.: pp. viii. + 326--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.;
Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Advt. (editorial, October 10, 1832), pp.
v., vi.; Cont. of Vol. XI., pp. vii., viii.; Text, pp. 1-326. The
Imprint is at the foot of p. 326.
The Front., "The Bridge of Sighs," and the Title-vignette, "The Bernese
Alps," are engr. by E. Finden, from drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A.
Vol. XII.: pp. vi. + 324--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.;
Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Advt. (editorial, November 10, 1832),
pp. v., vi.; Cont. of Vol. XII., _n.p._; Text, pp. 1-324. The Imprint is
at the foot of p. 324.
The Front., "Florence," is engr. by E. Finden from drawings by J.D.
Harding and G. Moran, junr.; the Title-vignette, "San Georgio Maggiore,"
is engr. by E. Finden from a drawing by C. Stansfield, A.R.A.
Vol. XIII.: pp. vi. + 369--Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.; Title,
one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Advt. (editorial, December 12, 1832), pp. v.,
vi.; Cont. of Vol. XIII., _n.p._; Text, pp. 1-369. The Imprint is in the
centre of the last page, p. [370].
The Front., "The Arch of Titus," is engr. by E. Finden, from drawings by
C. Stansfield and W. Page; the Title-vignette, "The Walls of Rome," is
engr. by E. Finden from a drawing by J.M.W. Turner, R.A.
Vol. XIV.: pp. 1-360--Gen. Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. [i., ii.];
Title, one leaf, pp. [iii., iv.]; Advt. (editorial, January 10, 1833),
pp. [v., vi.]; Text, pp. 1-360. The Imprint is at the foot of p. 360.
The Front., "Parnassus," and the Title-vignette, "The Field of
Waterloo," are engr. by E. Finden from drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A.
Vol. XV.: pp. vi. + 334--Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i. ii.; Title, one
leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Advt. (editorial, February 15, 1833), pp. v., vi.;
Cont. of Vol. XV., _n.p._; Text, pp. 1-334. The Imprint is at the foot
of p. 334.
The Front., "Scio," and the Title-vignette, "Genoa," are engr. by E.
Finden from drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A.
Vol. XVI.: pp. vi. + 335--Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii.; Title,
one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Advt. (editorial, March 15, 1833), pp. v., vi.;
Cont. of Vol. XVI., _n.p._; Text, pp. 1-335. The Imprint is in the
centre of the last page, p. [336].
The Front., "Cologne," and the Title-vignette, "St. Sophia," are engr.
by E. Finden from drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A.
Vol. XVII.: pp. viii. + 304--Half-title (R. Imprint), pp. i., ii; Title,
one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Advt. (editorial, May 15, 1833), pp. v., vi.;
Cont. of Vol. XVII., pp. vii., viii.; Text, pp. 1-248; Index, pp.
249-304. The Imprint is at the foot of p. 304.
The Front., "The School of Homer," and the Title-vignette, "The
Castellated Rhine," are engr. by E. Finden from drawings by J.M.W.
Turner, R.A.
_Contents_--
Vols. I.-V.:--Notices of the Life of Lord Byron.
Vol. VI.:--The Life, etc., from February, 1823-April, 1824 p.1
App.: cont. two epistles from the Armenian, etc. p. 269
Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose:
Review of Wordsworth's Poems, 1807 p. 293
Review of Gell's Geography of Ithaca, etc., 1811 p. 296
Parliamentary Speeches, etc. p. 314
A Fragment. [The Vampyre.] 1816 p. 339
Letter to John Murray, Esq., etc. p. 346
Observations upon "Observations," etc. [_Now first p. 382
published._]
Vol. VII.:--Hours of Idleness: a Series of Poems,
Original and Translated:
Dedication. p. 1
Preface p. 5
On the Death of a Young Lady (and 69 others) p. 9
Article from the _Edin. Rev._ p. 188
Occasional Pieces: written in 1807-8:
The Adieu (and 15 others) p. 195
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers p. 219
Occasional Pieces: written in 1808-1810:
Well, thou art happy (and 15 others) p. 291
Vol. VIII.:--Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Preface to the p. 3
First and Second Cantos
To Ianthe p. 9
Canto the First [Canto the Second, etc.] p. 11
Dedication of Canto the Fourth p. 189
Historical Notes to Canto the Fourth p. 271
Vol. IX.:--Occasional Pieces: written in 1811-1813:
Lines written beneath a Picture (and 31 others) p. 3
Hints from Horace p. 47
The Curse of Minerva p. 107
The Waltz p. 123
The Giaour p. 141
The Bride, etc. p. 203
The Corsair (Dedication, etc.) p. 257
Appendix: Remarks on the Romaic, etc. p. 339
Vol. X.:--Ode to N.B. p. 1
Lara (Cantos I., II. (N.)) p. 17
Hebrew Melodies: She walks in Beauty (and 22 others) p. 75
The Siege, etc. p. 99
Parisina p. 149
Domestic Pieces:
Fare Thee Well (and five others) p. 185
Monody, etc. p. 211
The Prisoner of Chillon p. 221
The Dream p. 243
Occasional Pieces: 1814-1816:
The Devil's Drive (and 28 others) p. 257
Vol. XI.:--Manfred p. 1
The Lament of Tasso p. 77
Beppo p. 95
Mazeppa p. 143
Ode on Venice p. 179
The Morgante Maggiore (Canto I.) p. 187
The Prophecy of Dante (Cantos I.-IV.) p. 259
Occasional Pieces:
Versicles (and 14 others) p. 307
Vol. XII.:--Francesca of Rimini p. 1
Stanzas to the Po p. 13
Stanzas (Written on the Road, etc.) p. 19
The Blues p. 21
Marino Faliero (App.) p. 43
The Vision of Judgment (App.) p. 231
Occasional Pieces:
Stanzas ["Could Love for ever"] (and 5 others) p. 317
Vol. XIII.:--Heaven and Earth p. 1
Sardanapalus p. 55
The Two Foscari p. 197
The Deformed Transformed p. 301
Vol. XIV.:--Cain (App.) p. 1
Werner p. 113
The Age of Bronze p. 263
The Island p. 299
Stanzas: To a Hindoo Air p. 357
Lines ("On this day," etc.) p. 358
Vol. XV.:--Preface to Don Juan p. 3
Testimonies of Authors p. 5
Letter to the Editor of "My Grandmother's Review" p. 41
Some Observations upon an article in _Blackwood's p. 55
Magazine_ (August, 1819. [Now first pub.])
Fragment ("I would to heaven," etc.) p. 100
Dedication to Robert Southey, Esq. p. 101
Don Juan (Cantos I.-III.) p. 109
Vol. XVI.:--Don Juan (Cantos IV., V., App.) p. 1
Preface to Cantos VI., VII., VIII. p. 127
Cantos VI.-X. p. 133
Vol. XVII.:--Don Juan (Cantos XI.-XVI.) p. 1
Appendix: Farewell to Malta (and nine additional p. 239
occasional pieces
Concluding Page of Lord Byron's "Observations upon an p. 247
Article," etc.
Index p. 249
_Note_ (1).--The Title-pages of Vols. XIII., XIV., XV., XVI., issued in
1833, do not specify the total number of volumes. The Title-pages of
Vol. I. issued in 1835, Vol. II. in 1833, and Vol. IX. in 1834, print
the words, "In Seventeen Volumes." There were probably other variations.
There is an illustrated Title-page ornamented with a Title-vignette
(_vide supra et ante_) to each volume.
_Note_ (2).--The editor of these volumes was John Wright (1770?-1844),
the editor of Cobbett's _Parliamentary History_, and the ninth and tenth
volumes of Boswell's _Life of Johnson_ (1836), and of Sir Henry
Cavendish's _Debates of the House of Commons during the Thirteenth
Parliament of Great Britain, etc._, two vols. 1841-3.
XLVII.
_The Complete Works_, etc., including his suppressed poems and others
never before published. In Four Volumes. Paris, Baudry. 1832. [8º.
[_Katalog der Bucher_, von Eduard Grisebach, 1894, p. 127.]
_Note_.--The Front. is "Lord Byron," from a portrait by Hopwood.
Quérard, 1846, gives the names of the publishers of this edition as
Baudry, Barrois, Amyot.
XLVIII.
_The Works_, etc., In Verse and Prose. Including his Letters, Journals,
etc. With a sketch of his Life. New York: George Dearborn, Publisher.
1833. 4º. pp. xxviii., 203, 619. ["... The first complete edition of
the Poetical and Prose Works of Lord Byron."--_Publisher's Advt._]
_Note_.--The Catalogue of the Library of Congress, 1880, describes this
or a Second Edition as consisting of two vols. in one, 8º.
XLIX.
The/ Complete Works/ of Lord Byron,/ Reprinted from the last London
Edition,/ with considerable additions, now first published;/ Containing/
Notes and Illustrations/ By/ Moore, Walter Scott, Campbell, Jeffrey,
Egerton Brydges, Wilson, Hobhouse,/ Dallas, Hunt, Milman, Lockhart,
Bowles, Heber, Medwin, Gamba, Croby, Ugo Foscolo, Ellis,/ Kennedy,
Parry, Stanhope, Gait, Nathan, Lady Blessington, Mrs. Shelley, etc./
And/ A Complete Index;/ To which is prefixed/ A Life,/ By Henry Lytton
Bulwer, Esq., M.P.,/ In one Volume./ Paris/ Published by A. and W.
Galignani and Co./ 1835./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxiii. + 935--Half-title (R. _Printed by H. and A. Firmin Didot,
rue Jacob, No. 24._), pp. i., ii.; Title, pp. iii., iv.; (Publisher's)
Advt., pp. v., vi.; Cont. pp. vii.-x.; The Life of Lord Byron, pp.
xi.-xxxiii.; Text pp. 1-908; Index, pp. 909-935.
The Frontispiece is a portrait of Lord Byron, engr. by J.T. Wedgwood
from a painting by W.E. West. The portrait in arabesque frame rests on
picture of Newstead Abbey and Missolunghi (_sic_), designed by F.
Sieurac. There is a lithographed vignette of tomb, harp, wreath, etc.,
on the title-page, and a lithograph of the memorial tablet in the
chancel of Hucknall Torkard. A facsimile of the letter dated Venice,
April 27, 1819, precedes the text, and facsimiles of original MS. of "To
D----," and of _Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza xcii., face pp. 3, 122.
_Miscellaneous Poems_--
On an Old Lady ("In Nottingham," etc.) p. 842
On Lord Elgin ("Noseless himself," etc.) p. 864
Stanzas to her who can best understand them p. 887
Epigram from Martial ("The Laureate's House," etc.) p. 888
To Mr. Hobhouse ("Would you get," etc.) ib.
To Mr. Hobhouse ("What made you," etc.) ib.
On Queen Caroline p. 901
Elegy on the Recovery of Lady ---- p. 903
Song, "Do you know Doctor Nott?" ib.
To ---- ("But once I dared," etc.) p. 904
On Sam Rogers ("Nose and Chin," etc.) ib.
On Lady Milbank's Dog Trim p. 905
Lines to Lady Holland ("Lady, accept," etc.) ib.
Attributed Poems:
To Jessy ("There is a mystic," etc.) p. 906
Lines found in the Travellers' Book at Chamouni ib.
To Lady Caroline Lamb p. 907
To the Prince of W_h_ales ib.
On the letter I p. 908
To my dear Mary Anne ib.
Stanzas ("I heard thy fate," etc.) ib.
_Note_.--This edition includes the contents of "the last [edition]
published in London in seventeen volumes," together with the poems
published in the Appendix to the _Works of Lord Byron_ (1832-1833, xvii.
238-248), and the following pieces not recognized or collected by John
Murray.
L.
_The Complete Works_, etc. In Four Volumes. Paris, Baudry, Amyot,
Truchy. 1835. [8º.
[Quérard, 1846.]
_Note_.--This edition was reissued in 1840.
LI.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Complete In One Volume./ With Notes By/
Thomas Moore, Esq.,
Lord Jeffrey,
Sir Walter Scott,
Bishop Heber,
Samuel Rogers, Esq.,
Professor Wilson,
J.G. Lockhart, Esq.,
George Ellis, Esq.,
Thomas Campbell, Esq.,
Rev. H.H. Milmand,
etc. etc. etc.
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1837./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 827--Title (R. _London:/ Printed by A. Spottiswoode,/
New-Street-Square./_), pp. i., ii.; Contents, pp. iii.-vi.; Chronology
of Lord Byron's Life and Works, pp. vii., viii.; Text, pp. 1-812; Index,
pp. 813-827. The Imprint, as above, is at the foot of p. 827.
The Frontispiece, "Lord Byron at the age of 19," is engr. by E. Finden
from the portrait by G. Sanders. The illustrated Title is embellished
with a vignette of "Newstead Abbey," engr. by E. Finden from a painting
by T. Creswick.
The Dedication is enclosed in an arabesque of oak branches issuing from
a shield bearing the arms and motto. (_Industria_) of Sir Robert Peel.
It runs as follows: To/ The Right Honorable/ Sir Robert Peel, Bart./
etc. etc. etc./ This/ Collective Edition/ of The Works of His/ "School
and Form Fellow,"/ Is/ Respectfully Inscribed/ By His/ Faithful and
Obedient Servant/ John Murray,/ February Fifth./ MDCCCXXXVII./
Facsimiles of Lord Byron's Handwriting at Various Periods of His Life,
viz.: I. _At Harrow in_ 1803. II. _From the Giaour_, 1813. _First
draft_. III. _Marriage Signatures of Lord and Lady Byron_, January 2,
1815. IV. _From Lord Byron's Diary_, 1821. V. _From Lord Byron's last
letter to Mr. Murray, dated Missalonghi, February 2_, 1824 (four pages,
_n.p._) are inserted between the "Chronology," etc., and the Text.
The first edition was bound in brown cloth. Lord Byron's Coat of Arms,
with Coronet, Supporters and Motto, is stamped in gold on the cover.
_Note_.--This Edition, which is printed in double columns enclosed by a
double line, has been reissued at brief intervals from 1838 to 1902.
The contents of this volume includes the contents of Vols. VII.-XVII.
of the Ed. 1832, 1833, together with the following additions already
printed (except No. 4) in Vols. I.-VI.:--
_Contents_--
1. Translation of ... Nurse's Dole ("Oh, how I wish," etc.) p. 546
2. My Epitaph ("Youth, Nature," etc.) ib.
3. Remember thee! Remember thee! p. 554
4. John Keats p. 574
5. Impromptu ("Beneath Blessington's eyes") p. 577
6. To the Countess of Blessington ib.
Appendix: Conversations of Lord Byron as related by Thomas p. 809
Medwin, Esq., compared with a Portion of His Lordship's
Correspondence. Published, Ed. 1828, iv. 419-429.
LII.
The/ Complete Works/ of/ Lord Byron/ From the last London Edition,/ Now
first collected and arranged, and Illustrated/ With all the notes/ By
Sir Walter Scott [and 24 others--five lines] To which is prefixed the
Life of the Author/ By John Galt, Esq./ In one Volume./ Paris:/ Baudry's
European Library,/ Rue Du Coq, near the Louvre./ A. and W. Galignani and
Co., 18, Rue Vivienne./ Sold also by Amyot, Rue de la Paix; Truchy,
Boulevard des Italiens; Theophile Barrois, Jun.,/ Rue Richelieu; at the
Librairie des Etrangers, 55, Rue Neuve-Saint-Augustin;/ And by all the
Principal Booksellers on the Continent./ 1837./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. II + cxxii + 954--Half-title (R. _Printed by Casimir, 12, Rue de la
Vieille-Monnaie_); Title, one leaf; Publisher's Advt., pp. 1-6;
Contents, pp. 7-11; _The Life of Lord Byron_. By John Galt, Esq., pp.
i.-cxxii.; Text, pp. 1-941; Index, pp. 943-954. The Imprint, as above,
is at the foot of p. 954.
The Frontispiece, "Lord Byron at the age of 17" (_sic_), is engr. by
Blanchard from the painting by G. Sanders. The Title-page is embellished
with a vignette of a shipwreck.
Facsimiles of Lord Byron's Handwriting, etc. (as in No. li.), four pages
(_n.p._), are inserted between the "Life," and the Text.
_Note_.--This volume "contains all the works of Lord Byron carefully
reprinted from the [last eleven volumes of the] London edition published
by Mr. Murray in 1833." The prose pieces published in Vol. VI. of the
same edition are included. The additional poems printed in the Appendix
of Vol. XVII., 1833, "occupy respectively their proper places."
Galt's _Life of Lord Byron_ was first published in 1830 as No. 1 of G.A.
Gleig's "National Library."
LIII.
_The Works_, etc., Complete in one Vol. With Notes by Th. Moore, Lord
Jeffrey, etc. Authorized Foreign Edition. London and Leipzig: Black and
Armstrong. 1837.
_Note_.--Kayser (1841) records the issue of _The Works_ in seventeen
volumes, and _The Complete Works_ in ten volumes (pocket edition), by
the same publisher. (See, too, _The Prisoner of Chillon_, by E. Kölbing,
1896)
LIV.
_Lord Byron's Complete Works_. In Seven Vols. Mannheim. Henry Hoff.
1837. [16º.
[Kayser, 1841.]
LV.
_The Complete Works_, etc. Including the Suppressed Poems and
Supplementary pieces selected from his papers after his Death. In one
Vol. Paris. Published by Gamier, Palais-Royal. 1839. [4º.
[Kölbing.]
_Collation_--
Pp. xlv. + 724.
LVI.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ In Eight Volumes./ Vol. I.--Part
I./ London:/ John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1839.-[4º.
_Note_.--This edition (printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square),
together with _Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, etc., by T. Moore_. 2
v. 1830. 4º. ("to which have been added the Letter to [John Murray] on
the Rev. W.L. Bowles' Strictures on the life and writings of Pope....
Second Edition, and a few other printed papers, also numerous views,
portraits, autograph letters," etc.) bound in 44 vols. with the gen.
Title (The/ Poetical Works,/ Letters and Journals,/ of/ Lord Byron:/
with/ Notices of His Life./ By/ Thomas Moore, Esq./ Vol. I. [Vol. II.]
London: 1844./), printed expressly for the purpose and prefixed to each
volume, which is known as the "Watts" Collection (B.M.C. 44, e-h), was
arranged by the late William Watts, Esq., Member of the Philharmonic
Society, who died at Jersey, December 28, 1859, aged 81. (See Kölbing's
_P. of Chillon_, 1896, pp. 90-92.)
LVII.
_The Works_, etc. Complete in Five Vols. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz.
1842. [8º.
[Kölbing.]
_Note_.--A Second Edition was issued in 1886.
LVIII.
_The Works_, etc. A New Edition. Edited by Thomas Moore, Esq. Complete
in four volumes. With Engravings. Philadelphia. Carey and Hart. 1843.
[Kölbing.]
LIX.
_The Complete Works_, etc.... A Life by Thomas Moore, Esq. In One
Volume. With a Portrait. Second Edition. Frankfort o. M. Published by
Joseph Baer.; 1846. [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xlviii. + 1004.
_Note_.--Another edition appeared in 1852 (_vide post_, No. lxv.).
[Kölbing.]
LX.
The/ Works of Lord Byron;/ In Verse and Prose./ Including/ His Letters,
Journals, etc./ With/ A Sketch of His Life./ Hartford:/ Published by
Silas Andrus and Son./ 1847./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxviii. + 319 + 627--Illustrated Title as above (_n.d._), pp. iii.,
iv.; Title (R. Publishers' Advt, New York, Jan. 1834), pp. v., vi.;
Cont. pp. vii.--xiv.; _The Life of Lord Byron_ [By Fitz Green Halleck],
pp. xv.-xxviii.; Text (i.) _Letters_ (635), Extracts from a Journal,
and Prose Pieces, pp. 1-319; Text (ii.) _Poems_, etc., pp. 1-627.
The Front., "Lady Noel Byron," is engr. by A. Dick from a painting by
W.J. Newton. The vignette or illust. title is Lord Byron, engr. by A.
Dick from a painting by W.E. West. To face p. 1 of the _Poems_ is
"Diodati," engr. by M. Osborne from a sketch by W. Purser; to face p.
156, "_Mazeppa_," engr. by Illman and Pilbrow from a painting by H.
Verner; facsimiles of Lord Byron's handwriting face pp. 25, 384.
The volume was issued in roan binding, with portrait of Byron stamped in
gold on the covers.
Among "Poems not included in any Collection of Lord Byron's Works until
after his Death," pp. 467-488, are the following pieces not included in
the London editions of 1831, 1832, and of 1833.
To my dear Mary Anne p. 472
To Miss Chaworth ("Oh, memory," etc.) ib.
To Lady Caroline Lamb p. 480
"In the Valley of Waters," etc. p. 482
Stanzas to her who can best understand them p. 486
LXI.
The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron:/ With a/ Life and Illustrative Notes,/ By/
William Anderson, Esq.,/ Author of Landscape Lyrics, Scottish Popular
Biography, etc./ In Two Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II.] A Fullarton &
Co.:/ Stead's Place, Leith Walk, Edinburgh;/ and 106, Newgate Street,
London./ _n.d._ [1850.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. ccxxiv. + 270--Title (R. Edinburgh:/ _Fullarton and Macnab,
Printers, Leith Walk_), pp. i., ii.; Preface, pp. iii., iv.; Cont. of
Vol. I. pp. v., vi.; Life of Lord Byron, pp. vii.-ccxxiv.; Text, pp.
1-270. The Imprint, as above, is at the foot of p. 270.
The Front. ["Lord Byron at the age of 19"] is engr. by E. Finden from
the painting by G. Sanders. The illustrated Title-page [The/ Works/ of/
Lord Byron/ With Notes and Illustrations./ Vol. I./ Edinburgh:/ A
Fullarton & Co./ Stead's Place, Leith Walk./] is embellished with a
vignette of "Lausanne," engr. by W. Finden from a drawing by C.
Stansfield, A.R.A.
Vol. II.: pp. 1-465--Title (R. Imprint as above); Cont. of Vol. II.;
Text, pp. 1-465. The Imprint, as above, is at the foot of p. 465.
The Front., "Newstead Abbey," is engr. by E. Finden from a drawing by W.
Westall, A.R.A. The illustrated Title-page is embellished with a
vignette, "Villeneuve," engr. by E. Finden from a drawing by C.
Stansfield, A.R.A.
_Note_.--These volumes contain all that "the existing laws of copyright
[1850] allows to be free;" _e.g._ all the dramas except _Manfred_ and
_Cain_, _The Island_, _The Age of Bronze_, etc., are omitted. In Vol. i.
the Life and Text are illust. by 56 Plates; in Vol. II. the Text is
illust. by 41 Plates. Two pages (B.R.) headed, "Directions for placing
the Plates," and "Directions for placing Plates in Supplement," are
bound up with Vol. II.
LXII.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Complete in One Volume./ Collected
and Arranged, with Illustrative Notes,/ By/ Thomas Moore/ [and 9
others]. With a Portrait, and View of Newstead Abbey./ Philadelphia./
1850./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 829.
_Note_.--Reissued by the same firm with different addresses in 1854,
1869, 1878, etc. This edition is a reproduction of Murray's one-volume
edition of 1837.
LXIII.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Containing/ The Giaour,/ [and 17
others]. Also/ Several Attributed and Suppressed Poems not/ Included in
Other Editions./ With a Memoir,/ By/ Henry Lytton Bulwer, Esq./ London:/
Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden./ 1851./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xlviii. + 641.
_Attributed Poems_--
Ode ("Oh, shame to thee") p. 624
Madame Lavalette p. 626
Farewell to England p. 627
To my Daughter, Etc. p. 627
Ode to the Island of St. Helena p. 636
To the Lily of France p. 638
To Jessy p. 640
Lines addressed to Mr. Hobhouse p. 641
Enigma (H.) ib.
_Note_.--The Front. is "Lord Byron," by Harlow, Sanders, and Phillips
(three vignettes), with arabesque border surmounted by arms and coronet.
The Title-vignette (on illustrated Title-page, dated 1847) is "Newstead
Abbey."
LXIV.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. Complete in One Volume. Philadelphia:
Lippincott, Grambo and Co., successors to Grigg, Elliot and Co., Nº 14,
North Fourth Street. 1851. [6º.
_Note_.--A reissue, entitled _The Globe Edition_, Philadelphia, Claxton,
Remsen, and Haffelfinger, appeared in 1870.
LXV.
The/ Complete Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Reprinted from the Last London
Edition;/ Containing Besides the/ Notes and Illustrations/ By/ Moore,
(and 24 others = 4 lines). Considerable Additions and Original Notes;/
To which is Prefixed/ a Life/ By Thomas Moore, Esq./ [Abbreviated.] In
One Volume, with a Portrait./ Second Edition./ Frankfort o.M./ Published
by Joseph Baer, Bookseller./ 1852./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xlviii. + 1004.
The Front., "Lord Byron at the age of 19," is engr. by C. Deucker from
the painting by G. Sander (_sic_).
The "Miscellaneous Poems" are identical with the Miscellaneous Poems of
No. xlviii., save for the omission of the lines, "In Nottingham County,"
etc., and twelve lines from the ballad "On Mr. Hobhouse."
LXVI.
The/ Illustrated/ Byron/ with upwards of/ Two Hundred Engravings/ From
Original Drawings/ By/ Kenny Meadows/ Birket Foster/ Hablot K. Browne/
Gustave Janet/ and/ Edward Morin./ Henry Vizetelly London. Gough Sq.,
Fleet St./ [1854, 1855.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 632.
LXVII.
_Poetical Works_, with a memoir of his life. (2 vols.) Philadelphia.
1853. [8º.
[Detroit Public Library.]
LXVIII.
_Poetical Works_, etc. With life and notes by Allan Cunningham. Family
ed. London, Charles Daly, 17 Greville Street, Hatton Gardens. [1854.]
[12º.
[Cat. of Lib. of Congress, 1880.]
_Collation_--
Pp. xxii. + 544. 10 pl.
LXIX.
_The Works_, etc., embracing his suppressed poems, and a sketch of his
life. Illustrated. New edition, complete in one volume. Boston:
Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 110 Washington Street. 1854. [4º.
[Kölbing.]
_Collation_--
Pp. vi. + 1071.
LXX.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ In Six Volumes--Vol. I./ [Vol.
II., etc.] A New Edition./ With Portrait./ London:/ John Murray,
Albemarle Street./ 1855./ [8º.
_Note_.--Front., Portrait of Lord Byron, by T. Phillips, R.A., engr. by
E. Finden. [Murray's "Library Edition," reissued in 1857 and in 1867.]
LXXI.
(In this Edition Objectionable Pieces have been excluded.)/ The/
Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ With Life./ Eight engravings on Steel./
Edinburgh:/ Gall and Inglis, 6 George Street;/ London: Houlston and
Wright./ [1857.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xix. + 524.
_Note_.--The Ed. omits Canto IV. of _Childe Harold_, all the dramas
except _Manfred_, and gives "extracts" from _Don Juan_, "a poem unfit to
be printed in this collection entire." Another edition, including the
Fourth Canto of _Childe Harold's, etc., Mazeppa_, and the _Ode on
Venice_, enclosed in coloured vignette borders, was issued in 1881.
LXXII.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. Complete in One Vol. Illustrated. New York.
Leavitt and Allen. 1857. [4º.
[Kölbing.]
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxiii. + 935.
LXXIII.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Complete./ New Edition, The Text
Carefully Revised./ With Portrait./ London: John Murray, Albemarle
Street./ 1857./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 685. The Front., "Statue of Byron by Thorwaldsen," is engr.
by W. Holl.
_Note_.--The arrangement of the poems differs from the edition of 1837.
[_Hours of Idleness_; Occasional Pieces; _Hebrew Melodies_; Domestic
Pieces; Later "Occasional Pieces;" The Satires; _Childe Harold_; The
Tales; The Dramas; _Beppo_; _Don Juan_; Notes; Index.] This edition is
known as the "Pearl" Edition. There was a reissue in 1867, with a new
Title-page and without the line-border.
LXXIV.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. Collected and arranged with notes by Sir
Walter Scott, Lord Jeffrey, Professor Wilson, Thomas Moore, etc. New and
Complete Edition. With Portrait and Illustrated Engravings. London: John
Murray, etc. 1859. [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. x. + 827.
_Note_.--This edition was reissued in 1866, 1873, 1876, and 1883.
LXXV.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. With copious illustrative notes, and a memoir
of his life. Complete in One Vol. Illust. with elegant steel engravings.
Philadelphia: James B. Smith & Co., No. 27, South Seventh Street. 1859.
[8º.
[Kölbing.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 715.
LXXVI.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. Collected and arranged with notes by Sir
Walter Scott, Lord Jeffrey, etc. New and Complete Edition. With
Portrait. London: 1860. Leipzig. B. Tauchnitz. [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. x. + 828.
_Note_.--An edition of _The Works, etc._, forming part of the
"Collection of British Authors" (16º), was issued by B. Tauchnitz, at
Leipzig, 1865-1870. [Kayser, 1865, 1871.]
LXXVII.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. In Three Vols. F.A. Brockhaus. Leipzig. 1860.
[8º.
_Note_.--Part of the "Library of British Poets." A Second Edition was
issued in 1867. [Kayser, 1866.]
LXXVIII.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ With Illustrations/ By Keeley
Halswelle./ Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 2 St. David Street./ London:
Simpkin, Marshall & Co./ 1861. [8º
_Collation_--
Pp. xxii + 673.
_Note_.--_The Life of Lord Byron_, pp. v.-xv., is by Alexander Leighton.
The dramas are represented by _Manfred_, _Heaven and Earth_, and _Cain_;
the Satires by _English Bards_, etc., _The Waltz_, and _Vision of
Judgment_, ... _Don Juan_ by numerous extracts. Red line-borders.
LXXIX.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ In Ten Volumes./ Vol. I. [Vol.
II., etc.] Boston:/ Little, Brown and Company./ New York: Phinney,
Blakeman and Mason./ Cincinnati: Rickey, Mallory and Co./ 1861./ [8º.
_Note_ (1).--Vol. I. contains _Life of Lord Byron_ [Excerpt from the
_Encycl. Brit._, by J.H. Lister], pp. xi.-xxxv.; _Hours of Idleness_
(71), and all the "Occasional Pieces," 1807-1824. Vol. II., The Satires;
Ode to N.B.; _Heb. Melodies_; "Domestic Pieces;" _Ode on Venice_;
_Monody, etc_.; _Lament of Tasso, etc_. Vol. III., _Beppo_; _Proph. of
Dante_; _Francesca, etc_.; the Poems published in _The Liberal_; _The
Age of Bronze_. Vol. IV., _Childe Harold's, etc._ Vol. V., "The Tales."
Vols. VI., VII., VIII., The Dramas. Vols. IX., X., _Don Juan_. The
Front. of Vol. I. is "Byron," by T. Phillips, R.A.
_Note_ (2).--This edition professes to be an amended reprint of the
London Edition of 1856 in Six Volumes. Doubtful and "attributed" poems
are not included.
LXXX.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. With Life of the Author, and Copious Notes.
Beautifully illustrated. Family Edition. Halifax: Milner and Sowerby.
1863. [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xv. + 702.
_Note_.--Two other editions of the same work were issued in 1865 by the
firm, imprinted _London; Milner and Sowerby, Paternoster Row_.
[Kölbing.]
LXXXI.
The Poetical Works/ of Lord Byron./ With Illustrations./ [Life by A.
Leighton.] New Edition Carefully Revised./ Edinburgh:/ William P.
Nimmo./ [1868.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 437.
_Note_.--This edition includes three dramas, _Manfred_, _Cain_, _Heaven
and Earth_; _Childe Harold_, and _Don Juan_, but omits _Hints from
Horace_, _The Age of Bronze_, _The Island_, _The Blues_, etc., and
occasional Pieces first included in the ed. of 1831.
LXXXII.
The Poetical Works/ of Lord Byron./ Reprinted from the Original
Editions./ With explanatory notes, etc./ London:/ Frederick Warne and
Company./ Bedford Street, Covent Garden./ New York: Scribner, Welford
and Co./ [1868.] [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. vii. + 638.
_Note_.--Part of the "Chandos Classics."
Kölbing notes another edition, pp. viii. + 668.
A Third Edition: London and New York.
A Fourth Edition: Portrait and Original Illustrations. Part of "The
Lansdowne Poets."
LXXXIII.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron:/ With/ Life and Portrait,/ and/
Sixteen Illustrations./ By F. Gilbert./ London:/ John Dicks, 313,
Strand./ [1869.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xv. + 457. Double columns.
LXXXIV.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. New Edition. In Eight Volumes. London: John
Murray, Albemarle Street. 1870. [8º.
[Kölbing.]
LXXXV.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Edited, with a Critical Memoir,/
By/ William Michael Rossetti./ Illustrated by/ Ford Madox Brown./
London:/ E. Moxon, Son, & Co., Dover Street./ 1870./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xx. + 604.
_Note_.--_Hints from Horace_, Translation of _Francesca of Rimini_, and
Occasional Pieces, first included in the edition of 1831, are omitted.
This edition was reissued in 1872.
LXXXVI.
The Complete/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron/ with an Introductory
Memoir/ by/ William B. Scott/ With Illustrations/ London/ George
Routledge and Sons/ The Broadway, Ludgate/ New York: 416, Broome Street/
[1874] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 750.
_Note_.--Double columns bordered with red lines.
LXXXVII.
The Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron/ Illustrated Edition/ London/ Virtue
and Co., City Road and Ivy Lane/ [1874] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. cliv. + 614.
The Front., "Byron," is engr. by W.J. Edwards from the portrait by T.
Phillips, R.A. The Title-vignette is "The Corsairs' Isle," and there are
fifty other line engravings.
_Note_.--This edition includes six "_Attributed Poems_," but omits
_Hints from Horace_, Transl. of _Francesca of Rimini_, and the
Occasional Pieces first collected in the editions of 1831 and 1832-1833.
This edition was reissued in 1879.
LXXXVIII.
_Poetical Works_, etc., embracing his suppressed poems, and a sketch of
his life. New Edition.... (Portrait ... 8 plates.) Boston: Lee &
Shepard. 1874. [8º.
[_Cat. of Lib. of Congress_, 1880.]
LXXXIX.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ London:/ Ward, Lock, and Co.,
Warwick House,/ Dorset Buildings, Salisbury Square, E.C./ [1878.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. vii. + 604. [Double column.]
XC.
_The Poetical Works_, etc., complete in one Vol. Collected and arranged,
with illustrative notes by Thomas Moore, etc., ... Boston: Lee and
Shepard, 1878. [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 829.
_Note_.--A reproduction of Murray's Edition of 1855. [Kölbing.]
XCI.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Edited, With a Critical Memoir,/
By/ William Michael Rossetti./ Illustrated by/ Thomas Seccombe./
London:/ Ward, Lock, & Co., Warwick House,/ Dorset Buildings, Salisbury
Square, E.C./ [1880.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xx. + 604.
_Note_.--Part of "Moxon's Popular Poets." This edition does not contain
_Hints from Horace_, _Francesca of Rimini_, or the Occasional Pieces
first collected in the editions of 1831, 1832-1833. The Prefatory Note
is by W.M. Rossetti. Double columns bordered with red lines. The same
edition, bordered with different red lines and printed on large paper,
was issued in 1881.
XCII.
The Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Reprinted from the Original
Editions,/ With Life, Explanatory Notes, etc./ London:/ Frederick Warne
and Co.,/ Bedford Street, Strand./ [1881.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xvi. + 720.
_Note_.--"This edition (known as 'The Albion Edition') contains the
whole of Byron's Poems and Dramas, with his Original
Notes."--_Publisher's Preface_. The Albion Edition was reissued by Warne
and Co. in 1897.
XCIII.
The Complete/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron/ With an Introductory
Memoir/ By/ William B. Scott/ London/ George Routledge and Sons/
Broadway, Ludgate Hill/ New York: 9, Lafayette Place/ 1883/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 750.
The Front. is the portrait of Lord Byron by G. Sanders; the vignette on
Title-page is "Newstead Abbey."
_Note_.--This edition (double column), which includes all poems
published in the one-volume edition of 1837 (No. li.), was reissued in
three volumes, 1883, 1886, 1887. Each volume concludes with an Index of
First Lines.
XCIV.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ With Life./ Engravings on Steel./
Gall & Inglis./ Edinburgh:/ Bernard Terrace./ London:/ 25 Paternoster
Sq^r. / [1881.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xviii. + 576.
_Note_.--This edition, which repeats the order and contents of that
issued by Gall and Inglis in 1857 (No. lxxi.), adds the Fourth Canto of
_Childe Harold's, etc._, _Mazeppa_, and the _Ode on Venice_. Coloured
vignette-borders.
XCV.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ With Original and Additional
Notes./ In Twelve Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II., etc.] Hours of
Idleness./ English Bards and Scotch Reviewers./ London:/ Suttaby and
Co., Amen Corner./ New York:/ Scribner and Welford./ 1885./ [8º.
_Note_.--This edition includes all poems contained in the edition of
1837, but omits the prose pieces.
XCVI.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. Complete in one vol. Collected and arranged
with illustrative notes by Thomas Moore, etc. New York: P.F. Collier.
[1886?]
[Folio.
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 820. [Kölbing.]
XCVII.
The Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Edited by/ Mathilde Blind./
Miscellaneous Poems./ London:/ Walter Scott, 24, Warwick Lane, E.G./ and
Newcastle-on-Tyne./ 1886./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxviii. + 280.
_Note_.--Part of the "Canterbury Poets." This volume contains
_Introductory Notice_ by Mathilde Blind, pp. vii.-xxviii.;
"Miscellaneous Poems" (including _Vision of Judgment_, _Manfred_,
_Cain_, etc.), pp. 1-280.
XCVIII.
The Poetical Works/ etc. Edited by/ Mathilde Blind./ Childe Harold./ Don
Juan./ London, etc./ 1886./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 1-369.
_Note_.--These volumes (Nos. xcvii., xcviii.) were issued separately.
Red line-borders.
XCIX.
_The Life and Works of_, etc., With Notes and Illustrations. ["Centenary
Edition."] In Two Volumes. Thomas C. Jack, London, Edinb. and Glasgow.
1888.
[Kölbing.]
C.
The Complete/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron/ With an Introductory
Memoir/ By/ William B. Scott/ London/ George Routledge and Sons,
Limited/ Broadway, Ludgate Hill/ Glasgow, Manchester, and New York/
1890/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 750. Double columns.
_Note_.--Part of "Routledge's Popular Library." The Front. is an illust.
of _Childe Harold_, Canto III. stanza xxi., and the Title-vignette,
"Newstead Abbey."
CI.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. New York: John W. Lovell, Company, 50, Worth
Street, Corner Mission Place. 1890? [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. ii. + 544. [Kölbing.]
CII.
The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ With Original and Additional
Notes./ In Twelve Volumes./ Vol. I. [Vol. II., etc.] Hours of Idleness./
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers./ Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh/
Newbery House, Charing Cross Road/ London, and Sydney./ [1891.] [8º.
_Note_.--This edition (The "Bijou Byron") is a reissue of _The Poetical
Works_, etc., published by Suttaby and Co. (No. xcv.) in 1885.
CIII.
_The Poetical Works_, etc., Complete Edition. In Three Vols. William W.
Gibbings. London. 1892.
_Note_.--A reprint of the Leipzig edition of 1880, published by F.A.
Brockhaus.
CIV.
_Works_. "Bijou Ed." 12 Vols. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co. 1892.
[Pocket size.
[_Amer. Cat._, 1892.]
CV.
_Dramatic and Poetical Works_. "Newstead Ed." Philadelphia, D. McKay.
1895. [8º.
[_Amer. Cat._, 1895.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 720.
CVI.
Oxford Miniature Byron/ The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron/ In Four
Volumes--Vol. I./ London/ Henry Frowde/ Oxford University Press
Warehouse/ Amen Corner, E.C./ New York: 91 and 93, Fifth Avenue/ 1896/
[16º.
_Note_.--"We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. John Murray, publisher
of the edition of 1867, for permission to use any copyright matter
contained in that issue."--_Publisher's Advt._
CVII.
The Poetical/ Works of/ Lord/ Byron/ London/ Bliss/ Sands & Co/ XII.
Burl-/ Eigh St./ Strand/ W.C./ [1897] [4º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xvi + 727.
_Note_.--This edition forms part of "The Apollo Poets." The Front.,
"Lord Byron," is a _Lamerciergravure_, printed in Paris, of the portrait
by T. Phillips, R.A.
CVIII.
_Poetical Works_, etc. New Edition, carefully revised. With
illustrations. W.P. Nimmo. 1897. [8º.
[_English Catalogue_, 1898.]
_Note_.--Part of the "Edinburgh Library of Standard Authors."
CIX.
_Poetical Works_. (Ed. by T. Moore.) In four volumes. Philadelphia, J.B.
Lippincott Co. 1897. [12º.
[_Amer. Cat._, 1898.]
CX.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. With Notes, and a memoir of the author.
Pictorial Edition. London: George Henny & Co., Bartholomew Close.
[_n.d._]
[Kölbing.]
_Collation_--
Pp. cliv. + 344.
CXI.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. With explanatory notes and a life of the
author, by Thomas Moore. Illustrated with numerous fine steel
engravings, embracing the principal female characters, landscape and
historical subjects. First quarto edition complete in [? one] volume.
New York: Johnson, Fry and Company, 27 Beekman Street. _n.d._ [4º.
[Kölbing.]
_Collation_--
Pp. ii. + 740 + xxviii.
CXII.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. Complete in one volume. Collected and
arranged with illustrative notes by Thomas Moore, etc. New York: P.F.
Collier. [1889?] [Fol.
[Kölbing.]
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 820.
CXIII.
_The Poetical Works_, etc. New York: Hurst & Co., Publishers, 122 Nassau
Street. [_n.d._]
[Kölbing.]
_Collation_--
Pp. vi. + 608.
TRANSLATIONS OF COLLECTED EDITIONS.
_French_.
I.
Oeuvres/ Complètes/ de Lord Byron,/ Traduites de l'Anglais/ Par
MM.A.--P. et E.--D.S.; [Amédée Pichot et Eusèbe de Salle]/ Troisième
édition,/ Entièrement revue et corrigée./ Tome premier./ Paris,/
Ladvocat, Libraire, Palais-Royal,/ Galerie de Bois, No. 195./ 1821./
[12º.
_Note_.--Vols. I.-VIII. were issued in 1821; Vols. IX. and X. (in two
parts) in 1822. Vol. I. (pp. i.-xlv.) is preceded by _Notice sur Lord
Byron, et ses Ecrits_, par Amédée Pichot. Vols. XI.-XV. (Oeuvres, etc./
Traduites de l'Anglais/ Par A.P. ... T./) with Gen. half-title,
Oeuvres/ de/ Lord Byron./ Inédites,/ were issued in 1824.
In the Museum copy of this edition an unnumbered volume entitled Essai/
Sur le Génie et le Caractère/ de Lord Byron,/ Par A.P.... T.,/ Précédé/
d'une Notice Préliminaire/ Par M. Charles Nodier./ Extracts de la
Quatrième Edition des Oeuvres/ Complètes de Lord Byron,/ (six volumes
in-8 ornés de vignettes.) Paris./ Ladvocat, etc./ 1824,/ which includes
an essay _Sur la Mort de Byron_, and a transl. of _Heaven and Earth_,
pp. 195-252, is bound up with Vol. XV.
_Note_ (1).--"Oeuvres de lord Byron. Quatrième édition, entièrement
revue et corrigée par A.P.... T.; précédée d'une notice sur lord Byron,
par M. Charles Nodier; ornée de vignettes ... _A Paris, chez Ladvocat,
libraire, Palais-Royal, galerie de bois_, No. 195 (Impr. Firmin Didot),
MDCCCXXII.-MDCCCXXV. (1822-1825), 8 vols. in-8, conv. impr. _Tome I_:
[Tome II., etc. (in 8 vols.)], 2 ff. (faux-titre et titre); xvi. pp.
(notice préliminaire de Ch. Nodier); clii. pp. (Essai sur lord Byron); 4
pp. (Table générale des matières pour les tomes I. à VI.); 249 pp.; et 1
f.n. ch. (annonce d'ouvrages).
"Frontispiece gravé par Godefroy; portrait de lord Byron, gravé par
Dequevauvilliers; et 5 figures gravées d'après Richard Westall, par
Godefroy, Mougeot, Dequevauvilliers, etc.
"_Tome II._, etc., etc.
"Les tomes II., III., IV., V., portent la date de 1822; les tomes I. et
VI., celle de 1823; le tome VII., celle de 1824; et le tome VIII., la
date de 1825." [_Manuel de l'Amateur de Livres du XIX^e siècle_. Par
Georges Vicaire. Paris, 1894. Fascic. 3 (1^re^ Partie), pp. 989, 990.]
_Note_ (2).--"La prem. édit, de cette trad, parut de 1819 à 1820, et
formait 10 vol. in-12; la seconde Ã[dit. fut. publ. de 1820 Ã 1822, et
formait 5 vol. in-8." [Quérard, La France Littéraire, 1827, i. 581.]
"Oeuvres complètes, VI. édit.... Paris, Ladvocat, Delangle, 1829 et ann.
suiv., 20 vol. gr. in-18, fig.--Autre édit. Paris, Furne, 1830-35, 6
vol. in-8, et avec 6 vignettes ajoutées. XI. édit., avec une notice
historique sur lord Byron, des notes et des pièces inédites. Paris,
Furne, Ch. Gosselin, 1842, grand in-8 à deux colonnes, avec 15
vignettes." [Quérard, _La Littérature Française Contemporaine_.
1827-1844. 1846, ii. 486.]
II.
Oeuvres complètes/ de/ Lord Byron,/ avec notes et commentaires,/
Comprenant/ Ses Mémoires publiés par Thomas Moore,/ et ornées d'un beau
portrait de l'auteur./ Traduction nouvelle/ Par M. Paulin Paris,/ de la
Bibliothèque du roi./ Tome premier./ Paris./ Dondey-Dupré Père et Fils,
impr.--libr., éditeurs,/ Rue Saint-Louis, Nº 46,/ et rue Richelieu, Nº
47 _bis._/ 1830./ [8º.
_Note_ (1).--The Front. of Vol. I., "Noel Byron," is engr. by Adele
Ethiou, after the portrait by T. Phillips, R.A. The engraver has added a
wreath of bay leaves.
Vols. I.-X. were issued in 1830; Vols. XI., XII., XIII., in 1831.
_Note_ (2).-"Il y a une seconde édition, Paris, etc., Dondey-Dupré,
1836, in-8, 13 vol." [Quérard, 1846, ii. 486.]
III.
Oeuvres complètes/ de/ Lord Byron,/ Traduction nouvelle,/ d'après la
dernière édition de Londres,/ Par/ Benjamin Laroche,/ Traducteur des
Oeuvres de J. Bentham, Cooper, etc.;/ avec les notes et commentaires de
Sir Walter Scott, etc. [Three Lines]. Précédées de/ l'histoire de la vie
et des ouvrages de Lord Byron,/ Par John Galt./ Tome premier./ Paris./
Charpentier, Libraire-éditeur,/ Rue de Seine, No. 31./ 1836./ [8º.
_Note_.--The Front. of Vol. I. is "Byron," after the portrait by T.
Phillips, R.A. Vol. I. was issued in 1836, Vols. II.-IV. in 1837. The
translator (_Post-Scriptum_, Vol. IV. p. [827]) claims to have
accomplished his work from beginning to end without collaboration or
assistance: "cette traduction a été commencée, poursuivie et achevée par
MOI SEUL."
"II^e édit.... précédée de l'histoire de la vie ... de lord Byron par
_H. Romand_, Paris ... 1837, grand in 8, avec une gravure.
"III^e édit., précédée d'une Notice sur la vie de lord Byron, par M.
Émile Souvestre, Paris, 1838, in-8, avec portrait et _fac-simile_.
"IV^e édit. Paris, 1840, 1841. 4 vol. in 12.
"V^e édit, ornée d'un _fac-simile_, et précédée d'une Notice sur lord
Byron ... par M. Villemain. Paris, 1843. Grand in-8." [Quérard, 1846,
ii. 487.]
"La I^re^ édition de cette traduction a été publiée en 1836, 4 vol....
Depuis elle a été réimprimée environ 10 fois, d'abord par M. Charpentier
et puis par M. Lecou, et en dernier lieu par MM. Hachette et Cie."
[Lorenz. _Cat. Gén._ 1867, i. 407.]
IV.
_Oeuvres, traduites en vers français_ par Orby Hunter, 2 vols. (Paris,
Chapelle. 1841-1842.) [8º.
[Lorenz, _Cat. Gén._, 1867, i. 407.]
V.
Oeuvres/ de/ Lord Byron/ Traduites en vers français/ Par/ Orby Hunter &
Pascal Ramé/ Tome. fred,--Beppo,--Le Corsair,--Lara/ et Poésies
diverses/ Paris/ Daussin,/ Libraire/ Place et rue Favart,/ 8 bis/ 1845/
[8º.
Vols. I.-III. were issued in 1845.
_Note_.--Vol. II. contains _Marino Faliero_; _La Fiancée_, etc.;
_Parisina_; "Inscription sur le Monument d'un chien," etc.; _A Venise_;
"Ode sur l'étoile," etc.; "Adieu!--Elégié." Vol. III. contains _Don
Juan_, Chants I.-VI.; _Notes_.
VI.
_Oeuvres complètes de lord Byron_. Traduction nouvelle de Louis Barré,
illustrée par Ch. Mettais, E. Bocourt, Ed. Frère, Edition Bry aîné
Paris, _en vente à la librairie centrale des publications à 20 centimes,
5, rue du Pont-de-Lodi_, 5 (Typ. Gaittet et Cie.), 1856, gr. in 4.
_Collation_--
2 ff. (faux-titre et litre); et 400 pp. Texte imprimé sur deux colonnes.
[_Manuel de l'Amateur_, etc., 1894. Fasc. 3 (I'e Partie), p. 990.]
VII.
Oeuvres/ de/ Lord Byron/ Traduction nouvelle/ Précédée d'un/ Essai sur
Lord Byron/ Par/ Daniel Le Sueur/ Heures d'oisiveté--Childe Harold/
Paris/ Alphonse Lemerre, éditeur/ 23-31, passage Choiseul, 23-31./
1891./ [12º.
_Note_.--The Front., "Lord Byron," is engr. by Fredéric Massé after the
portrait by G. Sanders. The Title-vignette bears a motto, _Fac et
Spera_, and the initials A.L. A second volume (unnumbered), containing
_Le Giaour_; _La Fiancée, etc._; _Le Corsair_; _Lara_, etc., was issued
in 1892. This translation, advertised as _Oeuvres Complètes_, and
described by Lorenz as "Traduction couronnée par l'Académie française,"
has not been continued.
_German_.
I.
_Lord Byron's Poesien_. In 31 volumes. Brothers Schumann, Zwickau.
1821-1828. [16º.
_Note_.--Among the several translators were Julius Körner, Wilhelm
Reinhold, Heinrich Doering, August Schumann, Christian Karl Meissner,
etc. Vols. I.-VI. appeared in 1821; Vols. VII.-XII. in 1822; Vols.
XIII., XIV. in 1824; Vols. XV.-XX. in 1825; Vol. XXI. in 1826; Vols.
XXII.-XXVIII. in 1827; and Vols. XXIX.-XXXI. in 1828.
[_Lord Byron in Deutschland_, von Dr. Cäsar Flaischlen, _Centralblatt
für Bibliothekswesen_, 1890, vii. 462-464.]
II.
Lord Byron's/ sämmtliche Werke./ Herausgegeben/ von/ Dr. Adrian,/
ordentlichem öffentlichem Professor der neueren Litteratur an der/
Universität zu Giessen./ Erster Theil./ Lord Byron's Leben./ Mit dem
Bildniss, einem Facsimile der Handschrift und der/ Abbildung des
Stammsitzes Lord Byron's./ Frankfurt am Main./ Gedruckt und verlegt von
Johann David Sauerländer./ 1830./ [12º.
_Note_.--Vols. X. and XII. were issued in 1831. The several translators
were G.H. Barmann, O.L.B. Wolff, K.L. Kannegiesser, A. Hungari, P. von
Haugwitz, Ph. A.G. von Meyer (the author of _Byron's Leben_, i. 3-326),
and The Editor. This edition was reissued in twelve vols. (12º) in 1837.
[Kayser, 1841.]
III.
_Dichtungen von Lord Byron_. Deutsch v. Gustav Pfizer. 4 Sammlungen.
Stuttgart, Liesching. 1836-1839. [8º.
_Note_.--There was a reissue of this work in 1851.
[_Centralblatt, etc._, 1890, vii. 468, 469.]
IV.
_Lord Byron's sämmtliche Werke_. Deutsch v. Adolf Böttger [1 vol., with
life and portrait.] Leipzig, Otto Wigand. 1839-40. [8º.
[Kayser, 1841.].
_Note_.--This edition was reissued at Leipzig by Otto Wigand in 1 vol.
8º in 1841, 1844, 1845; in 12 vols. 16º in 1841, 1842, and 1847; in
diamond edition, in 12 vols. 16º in 1850, 1852, 1856, 1860, 1861; and in
8 vols. 8º in 1854, 1863, 1864. For the latest edition, _vide post_, No.
xiii. [Kayser, 1848, 1853, 1860, 1865. See, too, _Centralblatt, etc._,
1890, vii. 457.]
V.
Lord Byron's/ sämmtliche Werke./ Nach den/ Anforderungen unserer Zeit/
neu übersetzt von/ Mehreren./ Zweite unveränderte Ausgabe./ Erster
Band./ Pforzheim./ Verlag von Dennig Finck & Co./ [Ten Vols.] 1842./
[16º. _Note_ (1).--The several translators were E. Ortlepp, Dr.
Kottenkamp, H. Kurtz, Professor Duttenhofer, Bardili, Bernd von Guseck.
_Note_ (2).--This edition was first issued in small octavo by Hoffmann
at Stutgard, in 1839, and reissued (16º) by Scheible, Rieger, and
Sattler, 1845, 1846; and in 12 vols. (16º) by Rieger at Stutgard, in
1856. [_Centralblatt, etc._, 1890, vii. 466.]
VI.
_Lord Byron's sämmtliche Werke_. [8 Bde.] Deutsch von A. Neidhardt.
Berlin, Hofmann. 1865. [8º.
[Kayser, 1871.]
VII.
Dichtungen/ von/ Lord Byron./ Deutsch/ von/ Wilhelm Schäffer./ Die
Belagerung von Korinth./ Der Gefangene von Chillon. Die Insel./
Hildburghausen./ Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts. 1865. [8º.
_Note_.--This collected edition of translations forms part of the
_Bibliothek ausländischer Klassiker, etc._
_Don Juan_, Cantos I.-VI., transl. by W. Schäffer, was issued in two
vols. in 1867; _Childe Harold's, etc._, transl. by A.H. Janert, in 1868;
_Corsair_, _Mazeppa_, _Beppo_, by W. Schäffer, in 1870; _Manfred_,
_Cain_, _Heaven and Earth_, _Sardanapalus_, by W. Grüzmacher, in 1872;
Lyrical Pieces, by Heinrich Stadelmann, in 1872; _The Giaour_, _Bride of
Abydos_, _Lara_, _Parisina_, by Adolf Strodtmann, in 1872.
VIII.
_Lord Byron's ausgewählte Werke_, uebersetzt von Mehreren [4 bde.],
herausg. von A. Strodtmann. Leipzig, Bibl. Inst. 1865-1872. [8º.
[_Centralblatt, etc._, 1890, vii. 466.]
IX.
Lord Byron's/ sämmtliche Werke/ in drei Bänden./ Frei überzetzt/ von/
Adolf Seubert./ Erster Band./ Leipzig./ Druck und Verlag von Philipp
Reclam jun./ [1874.] [8º.
X.
_Lord Byron's Werke_. Deutsch v. Dr. Adalbert Schroeter. [6 Bde.]
Uebersetzt, mit Einleitung und Anmerkungen versehen. Stuttgart. In;
Coll. Spemann. 1885-1890. [8º.
[_Centralblatt, etc._, 1890, vii, 470.]
XI.
_Lord Byron's poetische Werke_. In älteren Uebertragungen; eingeleitet
durch e. Studie v. Henry T. Tuckermann. Stuttgart. Cotta'sche Bibl. der
Weltlitteratur, 1886. [In eight vols.] [8º.
[Kayser, 1887.]
XII.
Lord Byron's Werke./ Uebersetz/ von/ Otto Gildemeister./ In sechs
Bänden./ Erster Band./ Vierte Auflage./ Berlin./ Druck und Verlag von
Georg Reimer./ 1888./ [8º.
_Note_.--A First Edition appeared in 1864, a second in 1866, and a third
in 1877. [Kayser, 1865, 1871, 1883.]
XIII.
Byron's/ sämmtliche Werke./ Von/ Adolf Böttger./ Achte Auflage./ Erster
Band./ Leipzig,/ Verlag von Otto Wigand./ 1901./ [8 Bde.] [8º.
_Modern Greek_.
[Greek: Ta Apanta / tou / Byrônos / Tomos Prôtos / En Athênais / Ek tou
typographeiou tôn katastêmatôn / Anestê kônstatinidou] 1895/ [Three
Vols.] [8º.
_Note_.--This translation includes _Mazeppa_, _Parisina_, _Childe
Harold_, _The Siege of Corinth_, _The Bride of Abydos_, _The Corsair_,
_The Curse of Minerva_, _Don Juan_, _The Giaour_.
The paper wrapper and the title-page are embellished with a lithograph
of the portrait by T. Phillips, R.A.
_Italian_.
I.
Opere complete/ di/ Lord Byron/ voltate dall' originale inglese in prosa
italiana/ Da/ Carlo Rusconi/ Con note ed illustrazioni del
volgarizzatore/ nonchè dei signori/ Moore (and 33 others = 6 lines)/ a
cui si aggiungono/ I dialoghi di Lord Byron compilati da M. Medwin/ Un
saggio sul di lui genio--una prefazione--E un' appendice/ parte desunti
da altri scritti, parte tradotti,/ parte originali./ Padova/ coi tipi
della Minerva/ 1842/ [8º.
_Note_.--This edition, which forms one volume, pp. xxxix. + 1561, was
issued in two parts. A dedication ("A Sua Eccellenza/ Lord Holland/
Ministro Plenipotenziario D'Inghilterra/ alla Corte di Toscana"/) is
prefixed to Part I., pp. [ix.]-[xi.].
II.
Opere/ di/ Giorgio Lord Byron/ Precedute/ da alcune avvertenze critiche/
Sulle stesse/ e da un discorso/ di/ Cesare Cantù/ prima edizione
napolitana adorna di figure incise/ Napoli/ Francesco Rossi-Romano
editore/ Trinità Maggiore, 6/ 1853/ [8º.
_Note_.--The Front. is a lithograph of "Lord Byron nell' età di 17
anni," after the portrait by G. Sanders.
The several translators were Giuseppe Gazzino, Giuseppe Nicolini, Pietro
Isola, Pellegrino Rossi, Andrea Maffei, Marcello Mazzoni, and P.G.B.
Cereseto.
The translation includes _Childe Harold_, eight tales, and four dramas.
III.
_Opere di Lord Byron_ tradotte ed annotate da Gabr. De Stefano. Napoli,
1857. [8º.
[Pagliaini, 1901.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 625.
IV.
Opere/ di/ Lord Giorgio Byron/ Precedute/ da un saggio intorno al genio
e al carattere/ Del medesimo/ Volume unico/ Napoli/ Presso Pasquale
Perrone libraio-/Editore/ via Costantinopoli, 107./ 1886/ [8º.
_Note_.--The translations include _Childe Harold_, _Don Juan_, eight
tales, and seven dramas. A reissue with a portrait, and, apparently,
wanting pp. 669-[711] of the appendix, appeared in 1891 (Ferdinando
Bideri, editore/ Via Costantinopoli, 89).
_Polish_.
I.
Poezye/ Lorda Byrona/ w t[/l]umaczeniu Polskiém. Wydane staraniem/
Boles[/l]awa Maurycego Wolffa./ Tom. I./ W[e,]drówki Czajlda-Harolda./
Petersburg./ Nakadem i Drukiem B.M. Wolffa./ 1857./ [12º.
_Note_.--No more published.
II.
Poezye Lorda Byrona w przek[/l]adzie polskich poetów. Zbiorowe wydanie,
pod red. Piotra Chmielowskiego. ("Biblioteka Najcelnijszych Utworów.")
[8º. _Warszawa, 1885, etc._
_Russian_.
I.
[Cyrillic: Sochinenaiya Lorda Bairona V" perevodakh" russkikh" ]
[Cyrillic: Poztov" izdainykhie pol" redaktsieyu N.V. Gerbelya]
5 TOM. [Cyrillic: S.-Peterburg"] 1864-66 [16º.
Second edition of Gerbel. [Cyrillic: S.-Peterburg"], 1874-77. In 4 vols.
Third edition. [Cyrillic: S.-Peterburg"], 1883-84. In 3 vols.
II.
[Cyrillic: Bairon". Evrope[)i]esk[-i]e Klassiki V" russkom" persvodie]
[Cyrillic: P. Ve[)i]noerga S.-Peterburg"] 1876.
_Note_.--The translations include _Hebrew Melodies_, _Sardanapalus_,
_Manfred_, _Childe Harold's, etc._, and _Don Juan_.
_Spanish_.
Biblioteca Universal./ Coleccion/ de los/ Mejores autores/ Antiguos y
modernos,/ Nationales y extranjeros./ Tomo LXIII./ Lord Byron/ Madrid./
Direccion y administracion/ calle de Leganitos, 18, 2.0/ 1880./ [16º.
This translation includes _The Corsair_, _Lara_, _Darkness_, and _Hebrew
Melodies_ (6), _The Lament of Tasso_. The _Prologo_ is by Rafael Ginard
de La Rosa.
_Swedish_.
Byron's Poetiska Berättelser. Öfversättning af Talis Qualis [C.W.A.
Strandberg]. 1. Maseppa.--2. Belägringen af Korinth.--3. Fången på
Chillon.--4. Parisina--5. Beppo.--6. Giaurn.--7. Bruden från Abydos.--8.
On Eller Christian OCH Hans Ställbröder. [8 vols.] Stockholm, J.L.
Brudins Förlag. 1854-1856. [12º.
SELECTIONS.
I.
_The Beauties of Byron_, with a sketch of his life and a dissertation on
his genius and writings. By Thomas Parry. London: J. Sudbury. 1823.
[Kölbing.]
II.
_The Beauties of Byron_. Extracts from the works of the Right Hon. Lord
Byron. Embellished with engravings on steel. London: J. Limbird. 1827.
[Kölbing.]
III.
Life/ and/ Select Poems/ of/ Lord Byron,/ Arranged, etc./ By C.
Hulbert,/ Author of Literary Beauties, Poetical Bouquet, Museum of the
World, etc./ London: Sold by all the Booksellers./ [1828.] [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 84.
IV.
_The Beauties of Lord Byron_, selected by B.F. French, 10th ed. [Pp. xi.
+ 204, 3 pl.] Philadelphia. 1828. [24º
[_Cat. of Library of Congress_, 1880.]
V.
The/ Beauties/ of/ Byron,/ Consisting of/ Selections From His Works./ By
J.W. Lake./ [L.B. in Gothic letters, enclosed in bay and oak leaves.]
Paris,/ Baudry, at the English, Italian,/ Spanish, German, and
Portuguese Library,/ Rue du Coq Saint-Honoré, No. 9./ Bobée and Hingray,
rue de Richelieu, No. 14./ 1829./ [16º
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 230.
VI.
_Lord Byron's Select Works_. Vols. I.-III. Frankfort a. M Brönner. 1831,
1832. [12º
[Kayser, 1834.]
VII.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_; The Giaour; The Siege, etc.; Parisina; The
Island; The Prisoner, etc.; Beppo; Mazeppa; The Prophecy, etc.; The
Waltz; The Lament, etc.; Hebrew Melodies; Misc. in Prose. By Lord Byron.
Paris. 1832. (1 vol.) [8º.
["Le Moniteur de la librairie." _Courrier de l'amateur de livres_.
Paris, Barrois. 4^e Annèe, 1845, p. 122. (Bibl. Nat. 9, 5610.)]
VIII.
_Lord Byron's Select Poetical Works_, containing the _Corsair_, _Lara_,
the _Giaour_, the _Siege_, etc., the _Bride_, etc., _Parisina_,
_Mazeppa_, the _Prisoner_, etc. Paris and Lyons. 1835. [12º.
[Kayser, 1841.]
IX.
_Lord Byron's Select Works_. Consisting of _Cain, a Mystery_; _Hours of
Idleness_; _English Bards_, etc., with Occ. Pieces and Life of the
Author. Asher, London and Berlin. 1837. [32º.
[Kayser, 1841.]
X.
The/ Beauties/ of/ Byron:/ Consisting of/ Selections from the Popular
Works of/ This most admired Writer./ By Alfred Howard, Esq./ A new
Edition./ London:/ Printed for Thomas Tegg and Son, 73, Cheapside;/ R.
Griffin and Co., Glasgow./ T.T. and H. Tegg, Dublin:/ also, J. and S.A.
Tegg, Sydney and Hobart Town./ 1837./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 192.
XI.
The/ Beauties/ of/ Byron,/ consisting of/ selections from his Works./ By
Alfred Howard, Esq./ London:/ Printed by T. Davison,/ For Thomas Tegg,
No. 73, Cheapside;/ R. Griffin and Co. Glasgow;/ and/ J. Cummings,
Dublin./ [_n.d._] [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 212.
_Note_.--The following advertisement is printed on the R. of the Gen.
Half-title: "To the few persons who have not read Lord Byron's poems,
but who, after perusing these specimens, will undoubtedly wish to read
the whole of them, we beg leave to say that the only correct editions
are published by Mr. Murray, of Albemarle Street, and Messrs. J. & H.L.
Hunt, of Tavistock Street. The first eight volumes are to be had from
the former publisher; the last two from the latter. All other editions
are piracies, and inflict even more injury on the sense and poetry of
the noble bard than they do on the property of the proprietors."
XII.
_Byron's Select Works_, containing the Corsair; Lara; Giaour; the Bride,
etc.; the Siege, etc.; the Prisoner, etc.; Select Poems, etc., etc.; to
which is prefixed a biographical notice of Lord B. by J.W. Lake. Paris,
Truchy. 1843. [12º.
[_Le Moniteur_, etc., 1845, p. 122. See, too, _Bibl. de la France_, Aug.
12, 1843, vol. xxxii. p. 413.]
XIII.
_A Selection from Lord Byron's Poetical Works_, containing, etc.
Intended for the use of young people, and provided with explanatory
German notes by Charles Graeser. Marienwerder, Edward Levysohn. 1846.
[Kölbing.]
XIV.
_Select Poetical Works of Lord Byron_. Containing, etc. With a memoir by
Henry Lytton Bulwer, Esq. London, Adam Scott. 1848.
[Kölbing.]
XV.
_Lord Byron's Select Works_, with an Appendix, containing songs and
ballads for the use of schools, edited by F. Breier. Oldenburg, Schulze.
1848. [8º.
[Kayser, 1853.]
XVI.
Selections/ From The/ Writings of Lord Byron./ Poetry./ By a Clergyman./
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1854./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 175.
_Note_.--The Selection (two vols.--Prose, Poetry) is one of a series
called "Murray's Railway Reading." The editor was the Rev. Whitwell
Elwin, sometime editor of the _Q.R_.
XVII.
Moxon's Miniature Poets./ A/ Selection From/ The Works/ of/ Lord Byron./
Edited and Prefaced by Algernon Chas. Swinburne./ London:/ Edward Moxon
& Co., Dover Street./ 1866./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxii. + 244.
_Note_.--The Selection was reissued by Ward, Lock, and Co. in 1885.
XVIII.
Songs by/ Lord Byron/ [Crest, motto _Crede Byron_.]/ London/ Virtue &
Co., Publishers/ 26 Ivy Lane, Pater noster Row/ 1872/ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 270.
_Note_.--There is an index of "Songs set to Music," pp. 268-270.
XIX.
_Selections from the Writings of Lord Byron_. New Edition. With
Portrait. London, John Murray. 1874.
[Kölbing.]
XX.
_Beautés de Byron_: Childe Harold, le Corsaire, Lara, le Giaour, le
Siège, etc., Don Juan, Extraits (texte anglais) avec préface et notes en
français, par A. Biard. Paris, Delagrave. 1876. [12º
[Lorenz, 1886.]
XXI.
Favourite Poems./ By/ Lord Byron./ Illustrated./ Boston:/ James R.
Osgood and Company./ Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood & Co./
1877./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 127.
XXII.
_The Beauties of Byron_. An Original Selection. Stuttgart, Paul Neff.
[Kölbing.]
XXIII.
Poetry of Byron/ Chosen and Arranged by/ Matthew Arnold/ London/
Macmillan and Co./ 1881/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxvi. + 276.
_Note_.--The title-page is illustrated by an engraving, by G.J. Stodart,
of Thorwaldsen's statue of Lord Byron. The preface (pp. vii.-xxxi.) is
by Matthew Arnold.
XXIV.
Routledge's World Library/ "Syllables govern the World." John Selden/
Gems from Byron/ With an Introduction/ By the/ Rev. Hugh Reginald
Haweis, M.A./ London/ George Routledge and Sons/ Broadway, Ludgate Hill/
New York: 9 Lafayette Place/ 1886/ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 158.
XXV.
Selections/ From The Poetry of/ Lord Byron/ Edited with/ An Introduction
and Notes/ By/ Frederic Ives Carpenter, Ph.D./ Instructor in English,
the University of Chicago/ Dir in klar und truben Tagen/ Lied und Mut
war schon und gross./ II. 'Faust,' iii. 1. 1426./ New York/ Henry Holt
and Company/ 1900/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. lviii. + 412.
XXVI.
Poems/ of/ Lord Byron/ Selected and arranged for use in Schools/ By/ C.
Linklater Thomson/ Head-Mistress of the Solihull School for Girls,
[etc., three lines]./ London/ Adam and Charles Black/ 1901/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. ix. + 67.
TRANSLATIONS OF SELECTIONS.
_Armenian_.
Lord Byron's/ Armenian Exercises/ and Poetry./ Venice/ In the Island of
S. Lazzaro./ 1886/ [8º
_Collation_--
Pp. 167 + Index, pp. [169]-[172].
_Note_.--The Title-page is dated 1886, the paper wrapper (yellow) 1870.
Among the exercises are _Pieces of Armenian History_, _The Epistle of
Paul to the Corinthians_, etc.; and among the translations are "The
Destruction of Sennacherib," "On Waterloo," "To the Duke of Dorset,"
etc.
_French_.
I.
_Choix de Poésies de Byron, de W. Scott et Th. Moore_; trad. libre de
l'angl. Genève et Paris, Paschoud. 1820. [Two Vols.] [8º.
[Quérard, 1827.]
II.
_Les Beautés de lord Byron_, galerie de quinze tableaux tirés de ses
oeuvres, accompagnée d'un texte traduit par Amédée Pichot. Paris,
Aubert, Giraldon. 1838. [4º.
[Quérard, 1846.]
III.
Écrin poétique/ de/ littérature anglaise./ Traduction en vers français,/
Avec notes historiques,/ De poèmes, épisodes et fragments choisis/ de
Lord Byron,/ Thomas Moore, Gray, Graham, etc./ Ornée du portrait de lord
Byron/ et de jolies vignettes de Thompson./ Par D. Bonnefin./ Chevalier
de la légion d'honneur,/ A Paris,/ Chez L. Hachette,/ Libraire de
l'Université Royale de France,/rue Pierre-Sarrazin, no. 12./ 1841./ [8º
_Collation_--
Pp. ix. + 473.
IV.
_Chefs-d'oeuvre de lord Byron_. (Le Pèlerinage, etc., Lara, la Fiancée,
etc., Parisina, Mazeppa, le Siége, etc., le Prisonnier, etc.) La
traduction françoise en regard par M. le comte d'Hautefeuille; précédés
d'un essai sur la vie et les oeuvres de lord Byron et de ses
contemporains, renfermant l'histoire de la poésie anglaise au xix^e
siècle, par D. O'Sullivan. 1847. _Place de la Madelaine_, 24. [8º
[Lorenz, 1866.]
V.
Rough Hewing/ of/ Lord Byron/ In French,/ With the English Text./ By
Francis D'Autrey./ ... Obscurus fio./ Horace, Ars Poetica./ London:/
J.W. Kolckmann,/ Foreign Library,/ 1, Princes Street, Cavendish Square,
W./ 1869./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 233.
VI.
_Chefs-d'oeuvre de lord Byron_. Traduits en vers français par A.
Regnault. (Two Vols.) 1874. [8º.
[Lorenz, 1876.]
_German_.
I.
_Lord Byron's_ ausgewählte Dichtungen. Aus d. Engl. übertragen. Leipzig,
Wienbrack. 1838. [8º.
[Kayser, 1841.]
II.
Byron-Anthologie./ Auserwähltes/ aus/ Lord Byron's Dichtungen,/
übertragen/ von/ Eduard Hobein./ Schwerin./ Stiller'sche
Hofbuchhandlung./ (G. Bolhoevener.) 1866. [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 187.
III.
_Auswahl aus Byron: Childe Harold_ (III. and IV.), _Prisoner, etc.,
Mazeppa_. Hrsg. v. J. Hengesbach. 1892. [12º.
[Kayser, 1895.]
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 116.
_Note_.--Part of _Textausgaben französischer u. englischer
Schriftsteller f. den Schulgebrauch_, hrsg. v. Osk. Schmager.
_Italian_.
I.
Poemi/ di/ Lord G. Byron/ Tradotti/ dall' originale inglese/ da/ Pietro
Isola/ Socio corrispondente della R. Accademia delle scienze ed arti/ di
Alessandria/ Torino/ Presso Giuseppe Pomba/ 1827/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 204.
II.
_Opere scelte_, tradotte da M. Mazzoni. Milano. 1852. [8º.
[Pagliaini, 1901.]
III.
A'Mici Amici./ [1873.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 27.
_Note_.--A translation of a few detached passages, by P. Isola, entitled
"In partendo dall' Inghilterra," etc. There is no Title-page.
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
I.
An Ode./ On/ The Star of the Legion of Honour./ Napoleon's Farewell./
Fare Thee Well./ And/ A Sketch, etc./ By Lord Byron./ New-York:/
Published by Van Winkle and Wiley,/ No. 3 Wall-Street./ 1816./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Title, one leaf, pp. 3, 4; Text, pp. 5-24.
_Note_.--The Half-title is probably missing. The "Ode" is the _Ode from
the French_ ("We do not curse thee, Waterloo!"). The edition contains
the five pieces enumerated on the title.
II.
Three Poems,/ not Included in the Works of/ Lord Byron./ Lines to Lady
J----./ The Ænigma./ The Curse of Minerva./ [Motto from _Ter. Andria_,
five lines.] London:/ Printed for Effingham Wilson,/ Royal Exchange./
1818./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Title (R. _John Hill, Printer, 32, Water Lane, Blackfriars_.), pp. 3, 4;
Note on the Lines to Lady Jersey, pp. 5, 6; Text and Notes, pp. 7-18.
The second poem is Miss Fanshaw's Enigma (Letter H); the third, _The
Curse of Minerva_ (112 lines).
III.
English Bards,/ and/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ Ode to the Land of
the Gaul.--Sketch/ From Private Life.--Windsor/ Poetics, etc./ By/ The
Right Honorable/ Lord Byron./ Second Edition./ Paris:/ Published by
Galignani/ At the French, English, Italian, German and Spanish/ Library,
No. 18, Rue Vivienne,/ 1818./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 84, With half-title, "Suppressed/ Poems." _English Bards, etc._, a
reprint of the Fourth Edition of 1811, numbers 1052 lines.
IV.
The/ Works/ of/ The Right Honourable/ Lord Byron;/ Containing/ English
Bards, and/ Scotch Reviewers;/ The Curse of Minerva,/ And the Waltz,/
An/ Apostrophic Hymn./ Philadelphia:/ Published By M. Thomas./ 1820./
[8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 151.
_Note_.--_The English Bards, etc._, is a reprint of the Fourth Edition
of 1050 lines. The _Curse of Minerva_ is the complete edition of 312
lines. The "Fugitive Pieces" are: (1) To Jessy; (2) "My Boat is on the
Shore;" (3) Lines addressed to Mr. Hobhouse; (4) Adieu to Malta; (5)
Enigma [To the Letter H]. It will be observed that, with the exception
of No. 5, all these pieces are genuine.
V.
Poems/ By/ The Right Honourable/ Lord Byron;/ With/ His Memoirs./
London:/ Published by Jones and Company,/ No. 3, Warwick Square./ 1825./
[8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 292 + Cont., p. [293].
This edition contains _Hours of Idleness, English Bards, etc._ (3rd
ed.), "Poems on His Domestic Circumstances" (twenty-five, including
eight forgeries), and the whole of _Don Juan_.
VI.
The/ Miscellaneous Poems/ of/ Lord Byron./ London:/ Benbow, Printer and
Publisher, 252, High/ Holborn./ 1825./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 94.
_Note_.--The collection numbers fifty-three poems, including the
twenty-five published by R. Bumpus in 1824 (No. xi. of "Poems on His
Domestic Circumstances"), and twenty-eight others (all genuine),
including the _Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte_, and the _Monody on the Death
of Sheridan_.
VII.
Don Juan,/ Complete;/ English Bards and Scotch/ Reviewers;/ Hours of
Idleness;/ The Waltz;/ and all the other Minor Poems:/ By/ Lord Byron./
[Emblem (Dove and olive-branch):--motto (_Perseverantia et Amicis_).]
London:/ Printed and Published by J.F. Dove,/ St. John's Square./ 1827./
[12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. iv. + 574.
_Note_.--A second Title-page, with Title-vignette. _English Bards,
etc._, numbers 1050 lines. Among the "Minor Poems" are the seven
forgeries: (1) Farewell to England; (2) To my Daughter; (3) Ode--St.
Helena; (4) To the Lily of France; (5) Ode ("Oh, shame to thee," etc.);
(6) Madame Lavalette; (7) Enigma (Letter H); and _The Curse of Minerva_
(111 lines).
VIII.
Don Juan;/ Hours of Idleness;/ English Bards and Scotch Reviewers;/ The
Waltz;/ and other Poems./ By Lord Byron./ In Two Volumes./ Vol. I. [Vol.
II.] London: J.F. Dove, St. John's Square./ 1828./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. xiv. + 384.
Vol. II.: pp. iv. + 428.
_Note_.--These pirated volumes were occasionally bound up with Murray's
four-volume edition of 1828, and numbered Vols. V., VI.
IX.
The/ Miscellaneous Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Containing/ Werner, a
Tragedy; Heaven and Earth;/ Morgante Maggiore; Age of Bronze; The
Island;/ Vision of Judgment;/ and The Deformed Transformed./ London:/
Printed for Hunt and Clarke,/ Tavistock Street;/ and sold by all
Booksellers./ 1830./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. vi. + 7-308 + 286--Title, one leaf; Half-title (Werner); pp. i.,
ii.; Dedication, pp. iii., iv.; Preface, pp. v., vi.; Dramatis Personæ,
p. [8]; Text (_Werner_, _Heaven and Earth_, Translation of _Morgante
Maggiore_), pp. 9-308; Text (_The Age of Bronze_, _The Island_ (App.),
_The Vision of Judgment_ (App.), _The Deformed Transformed_), pp. 1-286.
The Imprint (London:/ _Printed by C.H. Reynell, Broad Street, Golden
Square_./) is at the foot of p. 286.
X.
_The Corsair--Lara_. Tales by Lord Byron, with a notice and explanatory
arguments by Lake. Paris. 1830. [12º.
[_Le Moniteur_, etc., 1845.]
XI.
_The Bride of Abydos_--The Corsair--Lara--Curse of Minerva--Morg.
Magg.--Hours of Idleness--Engl. Bards, etc.--Miscell. Poems. [In one
vol.] By Lord Byron. Paris. 1832. [8º.
[_Le Moniteur_, etc., 1845.]
XII.
_Manfred_--Marino Faliero--Sardanapalus--The Two
Foscari--Cain--Werner--Heaven and Earth--The Deformed Transf. By Lord
Byron. [In one vol.] Paris. 1832. [8º.
[_Le Moniteur_, etc., 1845.]
XIII.
_Don Juan_--The Age of Bronze--The Vision of Judgment. By Lord Byron.
[In one vol.] Paris. 1832. [8º.
[_Le Moniteur_, etc., 1845.]
XIV.
Miscellanies./ By/ Lord Byron./ In Three Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II.,
etc.] London:/ John Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1837./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. vi. + 316.
Vol. II.: pp. iv. + 305.
Vol. III.: pp. viii. + 288.
_Note_.--Vol. I. contains _Hours of Idleness_; _English Bards, etc._;
_Hints from Horace_.
Vol. II. contains _The Curse of Minerva_; _The Waltz_; _Ode to N.B._;
_Hebrew Melodies_; _The Morgante Maggiore_; _The Prophecy of Dante_;
_The Blues_; _The Vision of Judgment_; _The Age of Bronze_.
Vol. III. contains "Occasional Pieces," 1807-1824; "Domestic Pieces,"
1816; _Monody, etc._; _The Dream_; _Darkness_; _The Lament of Tasso_;
_Ode on Venice_; _Francesco da Rimini_; and, interspersed with these,
pp. 171-261, other minor pieces and epigrams. The App. (pp. 265-288)
contains "Remarks on the Romaic," etc.
XV.
Tales./ By Lord Byron./ In Two Volumes./ Vol. I./ London:/ John Murray,/
Albemarle Street./ 1837./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. 263.
Vol. II.: pp. 260.
_Note_.--Vol. I. contains _The Giaour_; _The Bride, etc._; _The
Corsair_; _Lara_. Vol. II. contains _The Siege, etc._; _Parisina_; _The
Prisoner, etc._; _Beppo_; _Mazeppa_; _The Island_.
XVI.
Lord Byron's/ Tales:/ Consisting of/ The Giaour, The Bride of Abydos,/
The Corsair, Lara;/ With all the Notes:/ Hebrew Melodies,/ and other
Poems./ Halifax:/ Printed and Published by William Milner,/ Cheapside./
1845./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 9-256.
_Note_.--Among the "Poems" are twelve pieces, "The Illuminated City,"
"The Wreath," "A Child at Prayer," etc., which are, apparently,
attributed to Lord Byron, but are neither his compositions nor capable
of being described as forgeries or imitations. They precede six genuine
poems.
For an interesting account (by W. Roberts) of other editions (1838,
1865, etc.), published at Halifax, see _Notes and Queries_, 1886, iv. S.
v. 225, etc.; and _The Antiquarian Magazine_, vol. xii., July-November,
1887, pp. 101-106.
XVII.
The Giaour,/ and/ The Bride of Abydos./ By/ Lord Byron./ London:/ H.G.
Clarke & Co., 278, Strand./ 1848./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 154.
_Note_.--- Part of "Clarke's Cabinet Series."
XVIII.
Miscellanies./ By Lord Byron./ In Two Volumes.--Vol. I./ [Vol. II.]
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1853./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. vii. + 364.
Vol. II.: pp. viii. + 360.
_Note_.--Vol. I. contains _Hours of Idleness_; _English Bards, etc._;
_Hints from Horace_; _The Curse of Minerva_; _The Waltz_; _Ode to
Napoleon Buonaparte_; _Hebrew Melodies_; Domestic Pieces; _Monody,
etc._; _The Dream_.
Vol. II. contains _The Lament of Tasso_; _Ode on Venice_; _The Morgante
Maggiore_; _The Prophecy of Dante_; _Francesca of Rimini_; _The Blues_;
_The Vision of Judgment_; _The Age of Bronze_; Occasional Pieces,
1807-1824.
XIX.
Tales and Poems/ By Lord Byron./ Containing/ The Giaour./ Bride of
Abydos./ The Corsair./ Lara./ Siege of Corinth./ Parisina./ Prisoner of
Chillon./ Mazeppa./ The Island./ London: John Murray, Albemarle Street./
1853./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. vi. + 7-358.
XX.
Beppo and Don Juan./ By Lord Byron./ In Two Volumes.--Vol. I./ [Vol.
II.] London:/John Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1853./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. 353.
Vol. II.: pp. 367.
XXI.
Poems/ By/ The Right Honourable/ Lord Byron;/ With/ His Memoirs./
London:/ Thomas Nelson & Sons,/ Paternoster Row./ 1855./ [32º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xvi. + 174.
_Note_.--"Poems on Domestic Circumstances," etc. (pp. 133-174) are
identical with those published by J.F. Dove, 1827, pp. 536-574 (see No.
vii.); and the entire contents of the volume are identical with Poems/
By the/ Right Honourable Lord Byron./, which form part (Vol. II. pp.
1-46) of "The Cabinet Edition of the British Poets." In Four Volumes./
London:/ Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden./ 1851./ [8º.
XXII.
_Lord Byron's Tales and Poems_. Leipzig, Brockhaus. 1857. [8º.
[Kayser, 1860.]
XXIII.
Poems./ By Lord Byron./ [Motto: "Like an archangel," etc., twelve lines,
_Anon._] With Eight Illustrations,/ By Birket Foster, John Gilbert,
etc./ London:/ Routledge, Warne, and Routledge,/ Farringdon Street;/ New
York: 56, Walker Street./ 1859./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxii. + 539.
XXIV.
Eastern Tales:/ By/ Lord Byron./ Comprising/ The Corsair, Lara, The
Giaour,/ The Bride of Abydos, and The Siege of Corinth./ With the
Author's original Introductions and Notes./ Illustrated./ London:/ David
Bogue, 86, Fleet Street./ [1859.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 5-265.
XXV.
Byron's/ Siege of Corinth/ And/ Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte./ With Notes/
For students for the first examination in Arts,/ University of Madras./
1877./ Madras:/ Addison and Co., 18, Mount Road./ 18767 [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 56.
XXVI.
Poems/ By/ Lord Byron/ London/ George Routledge and Sons/ Broadway,
Ludgate Hill./ New York: 416 Broome Street/ [1880.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxii. + 719.
_Note_.--Part of the "Excelsior Series."
XXVII.
Poems/ of/ Lord Byron./ Carefully Selected./ In Two Volumes./ Vol. I./
[Vol. II.] Cassell & Company, Limited:/ London, Paris, New York, &
Melbourne./ [1886.] [32º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. 3-316.
Vol. II.: pp. x. + 11-316.
_Note_.--Part of Cassell's "Miniature Library of the Poets."
XXVIII.
Byron's/ Prisoner of Chillon/ und/ Siege of Corinth./ Mit
bibliographischem Material,/ litterarischer Einleitung und sachlichen/
Anmerkungen für Studierende/ Herausgegeben/ von/ J.G.C. Schuler./
Halle./ Max Niemeyer./ 1886./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 92 + "Lesarten aus Byron's MSS.," pp. 93, 94.
_Note_.--No. 8 of "Materialen für das Neuenglische Seminar." Herausg. v.
Ernst Regel.
XXIX.
The Corsair. Lara. Illustrated by Gambard and Mittis. With Introduction
by M.F. Sweetser. Boston, Joseph Knight & Co. 1893. [32º.
[_Amer. Cat._, 1894.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 142.
_Note_.--Part of the "World's Classics."
TRANSLATIONS OF MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
_Bohemian_.
Korsár. Lara/ Básnické Povídky/ Lorda Byrona/ P[.r]elo[vz]il/
C[ve]n[ve]k Ibl./ V Praze/ Tiskem A Nákladem Dra Ed. Grégra/ 1885/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 128.
_Note_.--Poesie Svetova, Pt. xxiii., 1871, etc.
_Danish_.
I.
Udvalgte/ Dramatiske Digte/ OG/ Fortoellinger/ Af/ Byron./ Oversatte af
Edv. Lembcke./ Første Bind./ (Dramatiske Dicte.)/ KjøBenHavn./ Forlagt
af J.H. Schubothes. Boghandel./ Græbes Bogtrykkeri./ 1873./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. 594.
Vol. II.: [1876] pp. 422.
_Note_.--Vol. I. contains _Sardanapalus_; _Manfred_; _Cain_; _Marino
Faliero_.
Vol. II. contains _The Siege, etc._; _Mazeppa_; _The Bride, etc._;
_Corsair_; _Giaour_; _Lara_; _The Prisoner, etc._; _The Island_.
II.
Byron:/ Manfred,/ Fangen paa Chillon og Mazeppa./ Oversat af/ Alfred
Ipsen./ København./ Forlagt af P. Hauberg & Comp. og Jul. Gjellerup./
Trykt hos Martius Truelsen. [1889?] [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 136.
III.
Beppo./ Dommedagssynet./ Af/ Lord Byron./ Oversatte/ Af/ Alfred Ipsen./
København,/ Forlagt Af I.H. Schubothes Boghandel./ Græbes Bogtrykkeri./
1891./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 88.
_Dutch_.
I.
Navolgingen/ van/ Lord Byron./ Door/ Nicolaas Beets./ De gevangene van
Chillon./ Mazeppa. Parisina. Fragmenten. Joodsche zangen./ Verscheiden
gedichten./ Nieuwe, Herziene Uitgave./ Vermeederd met een Woord over
Byrons Poëzy./ Te Haarlem, By/ De Erven F. Bonn./ 1848./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xl. + 170.
_Note_.--The vignette (a bunch of cornflowers) on the illustrated
title-page (Gedichten/ van/ Nicolaas Beets./) is engraved by J.W.
Kaiser.
II.
Gedichten/ van/ Lord Byron./ Door/ J.J.L. Ten Kate./ Eerste Volledige
Uitgave./ Te Leiden, Bij A.W. Sijthoff. [1870?] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 242.
_French_.
I.
_Le Corsaire_, _Mazeppa_, traduits en vers français suivis de poésies
diverses, par Lucien Méchin, 1848. Paris, Paulin. [12º.
[Lorenz, 1840-1865.]
II.
Le/ Prisonnier de Chillon/ Lara/ Parisina/ Poémes de Lord Byron,/
Traduits en vers/ et/ Poésies diverses/ Par H. Gomont/ Membre
correspondant de l'Académie de Stanislas/ Paris/ Amyot, Libraire/ Rue de
la Paix, 6/ [the second column] Nancy./ Mlle Gonet, libraire/ Rue des
Dominicains, 14/ 1862/ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 228.
III.
_Le Corsaire_, _Lara_, _le Siége de Corinthe_. Traduction nouvelle par
Paul Lorencin. (_Libraire de la Bibliothèque Nationiale_, tom. 117.)
1868. [32º.
[Lorenz, 1876.]
IV.
Chefs-D'oeuvre/ de/ Lord Byron/ Traduits en vers français/ par/ A.
Regnault/ Bibliothécaire et archiviste honoraire du Conseil D'État/
Membre de l'Académie de Lyon/ Auteur d'une histoire du Conseil D'État,/
D'un Voyage en Orient (Gréce, Turquie, Egypte)/ Et de notices
historiques sur Moscou et Saint-Pétersbourg/ Tome premier/ Paris/ Amyot,
Librairie-Editeur/ 8, rue de la Paix, 8/ Et à la librairie, Galignani/
224, rue de Rivoli, 224/ 1874/ Touts droits réservés/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. xxxii. + 518.
Vol. II.: pp. 511.
_Note_.--Vol. I. contains _Childe Harold's, etc._; _The Bride, etc_.;
_The Giaour_; _The Siege, etc._; _Manfred_ [Scènes Détachées].
Vol. II. contains _The Corsair_; _Lara_; _Mazeppa_; _The Prisoner,
etc._; _Parisina_; _Beppo_; Juan and Haidee; Poésies Diverses.
V.
Lord Byron/ Les/ Deux Foscari/ Tragédie historique/ Beppo/ Poème
humoristique/ Traduction en vers (ornée de 15 vignettes)/ Par/ Achille
Morisseau/ Paris/ Calmann Lévy, éditeur/ 3, rue Auber, 3/ 1881/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xiii. + 258.
VI.
_Le Corsaire_. _Lara_. Illustrations de Gambard et Mittis. Paris,
Dentre. 1892. [32º.
Fait partie de la "Petite Collection Guillaume," Lorenz, 1900.
_German_.
I.
_Gefangener von Chillon u. Parisina_, nebst e. Anh. seiner lyrischen
Gedichte, übers. durch Paul Graf v. Haugwitz. Breslau, W.G. Korn. Übers.
1821. [8º.
[Kayser, 1834.]
II.
_Manfred_.--_Die Finsterniss_.--_Der Traum_. Aus d. Engl. übersetzt von
Er. Köpke. Berlin, Schröder. 1835. [8º.
[Kayser, 1841.]
III.
_Der Giaur_. _Hebräische Gesänge_. Aus dem Engl. übers. von Friederike
Friedmann. Leipzig. 1854. Brockhaus. [16º.
[Kayser, 1860.]
IV.
Kain./ Ein Mysterium./ Mazeppa./ Von/ Lord Byron./ Aus dem Englischen
übersetzt/ von/ Friederike Friedmann./ Leipzig:/ F.A. Brockhaus./ 1855./
[16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 154.
V.
_Manfred_. Der Gefangene von Chillon, Hebräische Gesänge, u. Lyrische
Gedichte. Deutsch von A.R. Niele. Münster, Coppenrath. 1857. [16º.
[Kayser, 1859.]
VI.
Lord Byron's/ Mazeppa, Korsar und Beppo./ In das Deutsche übertragen/
von/ Wilhelm Schäffer./ _Stulta est elementia, quam tot ubique_/
_Vatibus occurras, perituræ parcere chartæ_./ Juvenal./ [Emblem--Griffin
with shield bearing motto "F.A.B. 1805."] Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus./
1864./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 138.
VII.
Die Braut von Abydos./ Der Traum./ Zwei Gedichte./ von/ Lord Byron./ Im
Versmass des Originals übertragen/ von/ Dr. Otto Riedel./ Hamburg./
Hermann Grüning./ 1872./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 80.
VIII.
_Der Gefangene v. Chillon_. _Mazeppa_. Von Lord Byron.
[Kayser, 1877.]
_Note_.--No. 557 of the "Universal Bibliothek." Leipzig, 1871-1876.
IX.
_Der Gefangene v. Chillon_. _Parisina_. Zwei poet. Erzählungen, übers.
v. Otto Michaeli. Halle. 1887-1890. [8º.
_Note_.--Part of the "Bibl. der Gesamt-Litteratur des In-u. Auslandes."
[Kayser, 1891.]
_Hungarian_.
Byron Lord'/ Élete's Munkái./ Irta/ Petrichevich Horváth Lázár./
Harmadik Rész./ Pesten./ Nyomtatta Landerer és Heckenast./ 1842./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 154 + Sajtó-hibák, p. [155].
_Note_.--The translations include _Mazeppa_; _The Dream_; and sixteen
lyrical pieces.
_Icelandic_.
Bandinginn Í Chillon/ og/ Dramurinn,/ Eptir/ Byron Lávard./ Steingrímur
Thorsteinson,/ Íslenzkadi./ Kaupmannahöfn./ Utgefandi Páll Sveinsson./
Prentad Hjá Louis Klein./ 1866./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 70.
_Italian_.
I.
Poemi/ di/ Lord G. Byron/ Tradotti dall' originale inglese/ Da/ Pietro
Isola/ Socio corrispondente/ della R. Accademia delle scienze ed arti di
Alessandria./ Primo volume/ Lugano/ coi tipi di Francesco Veladini e
Comp./ 1832./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. 221 + Note, Indice, pp. [222]-[224]. N.B.--Pp. 1-19 are not
numbered.
Vol. II.: pp. 298 + Indice, p. [299], Pp. 1-13 are not numbered.
II.
Poemi/ di/ Giorgio Lord Byron/ Recati in italiano/ da/ Giuseppe
Nicolini/ con alcuni componimenti originali/ del traduttore./ Milano/
Per Giuseppe Crespi e C./ 1834./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 433 + Indice, p. [435].
_Note_.--The Title-vignette is a portrait of Lord Byron.
III.
Poemi/ di Giorgio Lord Byron/ Recati in italiano/ Da Giuseppe Nicolini/
Nuova edizione eseguita su quella del 1837/ Riveduta ed aumentata dal
traduttore/ Vol. I./ [Vol. II.] Milano/ Presso la ditta Angelo Bonfanti
1842/ [12º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. 283.
Vol. II.: pp. 255.
IV.
_Poemi e novelle_. Milano, Sonzogno. 1882. [16º.
[Pagliaini, 1901.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 107.
V.
Opere/ Edite e postume/ di Giacinto Casella/ Già Accademico della
Crusca/ Con prefazione del Prof. Alessandro d'Ancona,/ Uno scritto
critico sul Properzio del Prof. G. Rigutini/ E una notizia biografica
sull' autore/ Scritta da sua moglie./ Due Vol.--Vol. I./ Parte I.--Il
Pellegrinaggio d'Aroldo, la Parisina,/ il Beppo e la sposa d'Abido, di
Lord Byron.--Sopra M. Aurora., di S. Fenzi./ Un frammento dal _Lambros_,
di D. Solomos./ Parte II.--Liriche originali./ Firenze,/ Tipografia di
G. Barbéra./ 1884./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. lvi. + 438 + Errata Corrige, p. [439].
Vol. II.: pp. xviii. + 450 [Text = pp. 3-450] + _Indice_, etc., p.
[451].
_Note_.--The translations of _Childe Harold_, _Parisina_, _Beppo_, and
the _Bride, etc._, are on pp. 1-311 of the first part of the first
volume.
VI.
_Misteri e canti_; Caino; Parisina; Un sogno. Traduzione di Andrea
Maffei. Milano, Hoepli. 1886. [64º.
[Pagliaini, 1901.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 198.
VII.
_Misteri, novelle e liriche_. Traduzione di Andrea Maffei. Firenze, Le
Monnier. 1890. [64º.
[Pagliaini, 1901.]
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxviii. + 441.
_Polish_.
I.
_Poemata i powie['s]ci_ ... Przez B. hr. K. [Brunona hr.
Kici['n]skiego]. Tom. 1. (Ob[/l][e,]['z]enie Koryntu, Korsarz.)
_Warszawa_, 1820. [8º.
_Part of "Biblioteka Romansów," etc. Wyd. przez W. Malcck[a,]_.
II.
_Powie['s]ci_, przek[/l]ad Wandy Maleckiéj. (Mazepa, przek. H.
Dembi['n]skiego, Paryzyna, Giaur, Upiór.) pp. 196. _w druk, J.
Wróblewskiego: Warszawa_, 1828. [8º.
_Wybór Romansów, wyd. W. Maleckiéj. Tom. XIII_.
[Another edition.] _Warszawa_, 1831. [8º.
III.
_Paryzyna_, Kalmar i Orla, dwa poemata ... Przek[/l]ad Ign.
Szyd[/l]owskiego. pp. 58.
_druk. J. Zawadzkiego: Wilno_, 1834. [8º.
IV.
Poezye/ Lorda Byrona/ t[/l]umaczone/ Giaur/ przez/ Adama Mickiewicza,/
Korsarz/ Przez/ Edwarda Ody['n]ca./ Wydanie Alexandra Je[/l]owickiego./
W. Pary[.z]u./ 1835/ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xiv. + 202.
V.
T[/l]ómaczenia/ Antoniego Edwarda/ Ody['n]ca./ Tom Drugi./ Narzeczona z
Abydos./ W Lipsku/ u Breitkopfa i Haertela./ 1838./
_Collation_--
Pp. 216.
_Note_.--The translation of the _Bride of Abydos_, with the Notes, is on
pp. 1-83 of this volume.
VI.
T[/l]omaczenia/ Antoniego Edwarda/ Ody['n]ca./ Tom Trzeci./ Korsarz./
Niebo i Ziemia./ W Lipsku/ u Breitkopfa i Haertela./ 1841./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 201.
_Note_.--The translation of the _Corsair_, with Notes, is on pp. 1-112;
of _Heaven and Earth_, pp. 116-201.
VII.
_Poemata_. Z orygina[/l]u prze[/l]o[vz]y[/l] Ant. Zawadzki. ([.Z]ale
Tassa; Werner; Narzeczona z Abydos; Wyspa.) pp. 392. _H. Skimborowicz:
Warszawa_, 1846. [8º.
VIII.
Pi[e,]['c] Poematów/ Lorda Birona/ Prze[/l]o[vz]y[/l]/ Franciszek
Dzier[vz]ykraj Morawski./ Nakladem Autora./ Leszno./ Drukiem Ernesta
Günthera./ 1853./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 272.
_Note_.--The translations include _Manfred_; _Mazeppa_; _The Siege,
etc._; _Parisina_; and _The Prisoner, etc_.
IX.
KRUZER (Karol) Przek[/l]ady i rymy w[/l]asne. 5 tom. _druk. E.
Skiwskiego: Warszawa_, 1876. [8º.
Tom. 3. Parisina. Lara. Kain. Poezje ulotne.
Tom. 4. Poezje ulotne Lorda Byrona.
_Portuguese_.
Traducç[-o]es/ Poeticas/ de/ Francisco José Pinheiro Guimar[-a]es/
Bacharel em sciencias sociaes e juridicas/ Childe Harold e
Sardanapalo,/ De Lord Byron;/ O Roubo da Madeixa, de Pope;/ Hernani, de
Victor Hugo/ Rio de Janeiro/ Typographia universal de Laemmert/ Rua dos
Invalidos, 61 B./ 1863./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 636.
_Note_.--The Title-page, a Dedication, and _O Sonho_, an imitation of
Byron's _Dream_, are unpaged. The translations of _Childe Harold_,
Cantos I.-IV., and of _Sardanapalus_, are on pp. 1-424.
_Roumanian_.
Din Scrierile/ Loui/ Lord Byron/ 3 P^t/ Tradduce/ de/ J. Eliad/
Boukouresti/ In Tipographia loui Eliad/ 1834/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 74.
_Note_.--The Title-page, in old Roumanian character, has been
transliterated. The translations consist of _The Prisoner of Chillon_,
_The Lament of Tasso_, and _Beppo_. The volume concludes with a
Half-title, _The Vampire_.
_Spanish_.
I.
Odas/ A Napoleon,/ Por lord Byron./ Traduccion castellana./
[Emblem--eagle flying to the sun.] Paris,/ Libreria americana,/ Calle
del Temple, Nº 69./ 1830./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 60.
_Note_.--The translations include the _Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte_;
_Napoleon's Farewell_; _On the Star of "The Legion of Honour"_; _From
the French_; _Ode from the French_.
II.
Biblioteca Jané./ Poemas/ de Lord/ Byron,/ Con notas, comentarios y
aclaraciones/ Primera version española, en vista de la ultima edicion/
Por Ricardo Canales./ Lara.--El Sitio de
Corinto.--Parisina.--Mazeppa./--La Peregrinacion de Childe--Harold.--Las
Lamentaciones/ del Tasso.--Beppo./ Barcelona./ Jané Hermanos, Editores./
Ronda de San Antonia, 58./ [?1876.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 352 + _Indice_, p. [353].
III.
Cuatro poemas/ de/ Lord Byron/ Traducidos en verso castellano/ Por/
Antonio Sellen/ Parisina.--El prisionero de Chillon.--/ Los lamentos del
Tasso.--La novia de Abydos/ New York./ Imprenta y librería de N. Ponce
Leon, 40 y 42 Broadway/ 1877/ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xiii. + 15-111.
IV.
D. Juan/ El Hijo de Doña Inés/ Poema de/ Lord Byron/ seguido de/ Las
lamentaciones del Tasso/ del proprio autor/ Version de/ J.A.R./
Ilustrada con dibujos à la pluma/ Por R. Escaler/ Barcelona/
Administracion: Nueva San Francisco, 11 y 13/ 1883/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 9-414 + _Indice_, p. [415].
_Note_.--Part of the "Biblioteca Amena é Instructiva."
COLLECTIONS OF DRAMAS.
I.
Dramas/ By/ Lord Byron./ In Two Volumes./ Vol. I./ London:/ John Murray,
Albemarle Street./ 1837./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. 403.
Vol. II.: pp. 391.
_Note_.--Vol. I. contains _Manfred_; _Marino Faliero_; _Heaven and
Earth_; _Sardanapalus_. Vol. II. contains _The Two Foscari_; _Cain_;
_The Deformed Transformed_; _Werner_. The Title-vignette on the
illustrated Title-page of Vol. I. is "Fall of the Staubach," engraved by
E. Finden, from a drawing by G. Bulmer from a sketch by Mrs. Somerville.
These volumes, together with the _Miscellanies_, _Tales_, etc., were
bound in green cloth, with Lord Byron's arms with supporters stamped in
gold on one side.
II.
Dramas./ By Lord Byron./ In Two Volumes.--Vol. I./ Containing/ Manfred./
Marino Faliero./ Heaven and Earth./ Sardanapalus./ London:/ John Murray,
Albemarle Street./ 1853./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. 325. The Imprint (_Bradbury & Evans, Printers,
Whitefriars_.) is at the foot of p. 325.
Vol. II.: pp. 318. The Imprint (_London: Bradbury & Evans, Printers,
Whitefriars_.) is at the foot of p. 318.
_Note_.--Vol. II. contains _The Two Foscari_, _Cain_, _The Deformed
Transformed_, and _Werner_.
TRANSLATIONS OF COLLECTIONS OF DRAMAS.
_German_.
Lord Byrons/ Dramatische Werke./ Deutsch/ von/ W. Grüzmacher./ Manfred.
Kain. Himmel und Erde. Sardanapal./ Hildburghausen./ Verlag des
Bibliographischen Instituts./ 1870./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 323 + Inhalt, p. [324].
_Note_.--No. 112 of the "Bibliothek Ausländischer Klassiker."
_Italian_.
I.
Marino Faliero/ E/ I Due Foscari/ Tragedie/ di/ Lord G. Byron/ Versione
dall' originale inglese/ del/ P.G.B. Cereseto/ Delle scuole pie./ Savona
1845./ Presso Luigi Sambolino/ Editore-librajo./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 304.
II.
Tragedie/ di/ Giorgio Lord Byron/ Traduzione/ del/ Cav. Andrea Maffei./
Sardanapalo.--Marino Faliero./ I Due Foscari./ Firenze./ Felice Le
Monnier./ 1862./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 493 + Indice, p. [495].
_Spanish_.
Poemas dramáticos/ De Lord Byron/ Caín.--Sardanápalo.--Manfredo./
Traducidos en verso castellano/ Por D. José Alcalá Galiano/ con una
carta prólogo de/ D. Marcellino Menéndez y Pelayo/ Madrid/ Imprenta de
A. Pérez Dubrull/ Flor Baja, núm. 22./ 1886./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxvi. + 382.
_Note_.--Vol. 45 of the "Coleccion de Escritores Castellanos." POEMS,
DRAMAS, AND COLLECTIONS OF POEMS.
_The Age of Bronze_.
The/ Age of Bronze;/ or,/ Carmen Seculare et Annus Haud Mirabilis./
"Impar _Congressus_ Achilli."/ London, 1823:/ Printed for John Hunt,/
22, Old Bond street./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Half-title (R. _London: Printed by C.H. Reynell, Broad Street, Golden
Square_./), pp. 1, 2; Title, one leaf, pp. 3, 4; Text, pp. 5-36. The
Imprint (_London:/ C.H. Reynell, Printer, 45, Broad-Street,
Golden-Square_.) is at the foot of p. 36.
_Note_.--The Second and Third Editions are identical with the First,
save that in the Third Edition the Imprint at the foot of p. 36 runs
thus: _London:/ Printed by C.H. Reynell, Broad Street, Golden-Square_. A
page of advertisements ("_Works about to be published by_ Mr. John Hunt,
22, _Old Bond Street_") follows p. 36 in the Second Edition. The _Age of
Bronze_ was reissued by John Hunt in 1825 and in 1830 (the Miscellaneous
Works, Part II. pp. 1-35), and by (?) W. Dugdale, 1824, together with
other poems; and, in France, by A. and W. Galignani, Paris, 1823 (12º.),
but was not included in any of John Murray's Collected Editions till
1831.
_Beppo_.
I.
Beppo,/ A Venetian Story./ ROSALIND. Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: Look,
you lisp, and wear/ Strange suits; disable all the benefits of your own
country; be out of love/ with your Nativity, and almost chide God for
making you that countenance/ you are; or I will scarce think that you
have swam in a GONDOLA./ AS YOU LIKE IT, Act iv. Sc. 1./ _Annotation of
the Commentators_./ That is, been at _Venice_, which was much visited by
the young English/ gentlemen of those times, and was then what _Paris_
is _now_--the seat of all dissoluteness. S.A./ Second Edition./ London:/
John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1818./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 49. The Imprint (_T. Davison, Lombard-Street, Whitefriars,
London_./) is at the foot of the Reverse of the Half-title.
_Note_ (1).--The Text numbers 95 stanzas.
_Note_ (2).--"Beppo, a Venetian Story. [Quotation.] London: _John
Murray, Albemarle Street_. 1818. 8vo. Pp. 49" (the First Edition), is
included in the catalogue of the _Rowfant Library_, 1886, p. 146.
II.
Beppo,/ A Venetian Story./ By Lord Byron./ [Motto, nine lines, as
above.] Fifth Edition./ London:/ John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1818./
[8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 51. The Imprint, as above, is at the foot of p. 51. The Imprint (_T.
Davison, Lombard-Street, Whitefriars_./) is at the foot of the Reverse
of the Half-title.
_Note_.--The Text numbers 99 stanzas. Byron sent four additional
stanzas, viz. stanzas xxviii., xxxviii., xxxix., lxxx., to Murray
_circ._ March 9, 1818. A Second Edition of Beppo, _vide supra_, was
published March 12, 1818, and the fifth, May 30, 1818. The intervening
editions, third and fourth, were not advertised in the _Morning
Chronicle_, _Morning Post_, _Courier_, and, in the absence of direct
evidence, it may be conjectured that the additional stanzas first
appeared in the Fifth Edition. A Sixth Edition, and a Seventh Edition
identical with the Fifth Edition, were issued in 1818.
III.
_Beppo; a Venetian Story_. Boston. 1818. [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 36.
IV.
_Beppo, A Venetian Story_. Paris, A. and W. Galignani. 1821. [12º.
[Quérard, 1827.]
_Translations of Beppo_.
_Dutch_.
Vertalingen/ En/ Navolgingen/ In Poezy/ door/ Mr. J. Van Lennep./
[Motto, seven lines.] Te Amsterdam, bij/ P. Meljer Warnars./ 1834./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Beppo,/ Eine Venetiansche/ Vertelling./ Naar het Engelsch/ van/ Lord
Byron./ pp. 119-159.
_Note_.--The Title-vignette is the Muse of Poetry with Cupids and
scrolls labelled Walter Scott, Moore, Byron, and Shakespeare.
_French_.
S. Clogenson/ Beppo/ Poëme/ de Byron/ Traduit en vers français, avec
texte anglais en regard/ Paris,/ Michel Lévy frères, libraires
éditeurs/ Rue Vivienne, 2 bis, et boulevard des Italiens, 15/ à la
librairie-nouvelle./ 1865./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 159 + Notes, pp. [161, 162].
_Russian_.
[Cyrillic: Beppo ... per. D. Minaeva]. [ [Cyrillic: Sovremennik"],"
1863. No. 8.]
_Spanish_.
_Beppo, novela veneciana_, por L.B. traduccion castellana. Paris, 1830.
[8º.
[_Le Moniteur_, etc., 1845.]
_Swedish_.
Beppo,/ En Venetiansk Historia/ AF/ Lord Byron./ Af Lord Byron./
Öfversättning/ Af/ Talis Qualis./ Stockholm,/ J.L. Brudins Förlag./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 48. (A Preliminary Note, _n.p._, on fly-leaf.)
_Note_.--Part (No. 5) of "Byron's Poetiska Berättelser," 1853, etc.
_Bride of Abydos_.
I.
The/ Bride of Abydos./ A Turkish Tale./ By Lord Byron./ Had we never
loved so kindly,/ Had we never loved so blindly,/ Never met or never
parted,/ We had ne'er been broken-hearted./ Burns./ London/ _Printed by
T. Davison, Whitefriars_, For John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1813./
[8º.
_Collation_--
Title, one leaf; Dedication, one leaf; Text, pp. 1-60; Notes, pp. 61-72.
The Imprint (_T. Davison, Lombard Street,/ Whitefriars, London/_) is at
the foot of p. 72.
_Note_.--Canto I. numbers 483 lines; Canto II., 724 lines (_not_, as
numbered, 722 lines, line 492 being numbered 490).
II.
The/ Bride of Abydos./ A Turkish Tale./ By Lord Byron./ [Motto, five
lines, as above.] Second Edition./ London:/ _Printed by T. Davison,
Whitefriars,/_ For John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1813./ [8º.
_Collation_--
_Vide supra_.
_Note_.--Canto II. numbers 730 lines (not, as numbered, 724). On p. 45,
after line 401, six additional lines ("Blest as the Muezzin's, ...
long-loved voice endears") are inserted; but line 414 is numbered 410,
and the wrong enumeration of the First Edition is repeated. A Third
Edition is identical with the Second.
III.
The/ Bride of Abydos,/ etc. Fourth Edition,/ etc. 1813./ [8º.
_Collation_--
_Vide supra_.
_Note_.--Canto II. numbers 732 lines. The additions in the Fourth
Edition are lines 662, 663 (p. 157), "Hark---- to the hurried," etc. The
enumeration of the lines is correct. A Fifth Edition is identical with
the Fourth.
IV.
The/ Bride of Abydos,/ etc. Sixth Edition,/ etc. 1814./ [8º.
This edition is identical with the Second and Third Editions. Lines 622,
623 are omitted. Seventh, Eighth, and Tenth Editions, issued in 1814,
are identical with the Fourth. An Eleventh Edition was issued in 1815.
V.
The Bride of Abydos./ A Turkish Tale./ By Lord Byron./ Had we never
loved so kindly,/ Had we never loved so blindly,/ Never met or never
parted,/ We had ne'er been broken-hearted./ Burns./ Philadelphia:/
Published by Moses Thomas,/ No. 52 Chestnut-Street./ William Fry,
Printer./ 1814./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 72.
VI.
The Bride of Abydos:/ A Turkish Tale,/ By Lord Byron./ [Motto.] [London,
1844.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 1-39.
_Note_.--Part of "Clarke's Home Library."
_Translations of Bride of Abydos_.
_Bohemian_.
Lorda Byrona/ Nev[ve]sta z Abydu./ Pov[ve]st turecká./ Z anglického
pr[ve]lo[vz]il/ Josef V. Fri[vc]./ V Praze./ Tisk a náklad Jaroslava
Pospí[vs]ila./ 1854./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 66.
_Bulgarian_.
[Cyrillic: Abidonska Neviesta, pobolgaril" N.D. Katramov". Moskva],
1850.
_Dutch_.
De/ Abydeensche/ Verloofde./ Uit het Engelsch van/ Lord Bijron/ door/
Mr. J. Van Lennep./ Te Amsterdam, bij/ P. Meijer Warnars./ 1826./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. iv. + 67.
_Note_.--The Title-vignette represents a pillar with skull and
cross-bones struck by lightning. The "ghastly-turbaned head" (line 1208)
hovers above. There is a Half-title, with Motto and Transl., on the
Reverse.
_French_.
I.
_Zuleika et Selim, on la vierge d'Abydos_: par lord Byron: trad, de
l'anglais par Léon Thiessé; et suivi de notes augmentées du _Fare Thee
Well_, et autres morceaux du même auteur. A Paris, chez Plancher. 1816.
[12º.
[_B. de la France_, Oct. 5, 1816.]
II.
_La Fiancée d'Abydos_, poëme en 11 chants, avec des notes; imité de
l'angl. par Aug. Clavareau, Gand, Houdin. 1823. [8º.
[Quérard, 1827.]
_German_.
I.
_Die Braut von Abydos_. Deutsch. v. Dr. J. v. Adrian. Frankfurt-a-M.,
Sauerländer. 1819. [8º.
[_Centralblatt_, 1890, vii. 456.]
II.
_Die Braut von Abydos_, eine türkische Sage. Getreu in's Deutsche übers.
u. seinen Schülern gewidmet von Finck de Bailleul. Landau. 1843. [8º.
[Kayser, 1848.]
III.
_Die Braut von Abydos_. Aus der engl. in freie, deutsche Dichtg.
übertrag. von Frdr. Kley. Halle, Schmidt. 1884. [8º.
[Kayser, 1887.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 62.
_Hungarian_.
_Az abydoszi ara_. [_The Bride of Abydos_, transl. by Tercsi.] Hangok a
multból és Byrontol énekek. pp. 25-66. B'pest. 1884.
[_Egyetemes Philologiai Közlöny_, 1901, xxv. 227.]
_Italian_.
_La fidanzata d'Abido_. Traduzione di Giov. Giovio. Milano, Guglielmini.
1854. [8º.
[Pagliaini, 1901.]
_Polish_.
_Dziewica z Abydos, poema_. Prezkt. W[/l]. hr. Ostrowskiego. Warszawa,
Glücksberg. 1818. [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 94.
_Russian_.
I.
[Cyrillic: Abidosskaya Neviesta. Turetskaya poviest". M.
Kachenovski[)i].] [Cyrillic: Vyibor" iz" sochineniye lorda Bairona.]
1821.
_Note_.--_Bride of Abydos_, pp. 177-255.
II.
[Cyrillic: Neviesta Abidosskaya. Turetskaya poviest" lorda Bairona.]
[Cyrillic: Perevel" s" angliyeskago Ivan" Kozlov".] pp. i.-x. 1-92.
[Cyrillic: S.-Peterburg"], 1826. 8º.
Second Edition. [Cyrillic: S.-Peterburg"], 1831. 16º.
III.
[Cyrillic: Abidosskaya Neviesta ... Perediellana ... M. Politkovskoye.
Moskva], 1859.
_Collation_--
Pp. 1-57.
_Swedish_.
Bruden Från Abydos,/ En Turkisk Berättelse/ Af/ Lord Byron./
Öfversättning./ Stockholm,/ J.L. Brudins Förlag./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 72.
_Note_.--No. 7 of "Byron's Poetiska Berättelser," 1853, etc.
_Cain_.
[_Note_.--_Cain, A Mystery_ was published by John Murray, together with
_Sardanapalus, A Tragedy_, and _The Two Foscari, A Tragedy_, Dec. 21,
1821; _vide post, Sardanapalus, A Tragedy_, No. i. (p. 293).]
I.
Cain;/ A Mystery./ By the author of Don Juan./ "Now the Serpent was more
subtil than any beast of/ the field which the Lord God had made."/ Gen.
iii. I./ London:/ _Printed for the Booksellers_,/ By W. Benbow,
Castle-Street, Leicester-Square./ 1822./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. vii. + 8-93.
II.
Cain;/ A Mystery./ By Lord Byron./ To which is added/ a Letter from the
Author/ To/ Mr Murray, the original Publisher./ "Now the Serpent was
more subtil than any Beast of the Field which the Lord/ God had made."/
Gen. iii. I./ Second Edition./ London:/ Printed and Published by R.
Carlile, 55, Fleet Street./ 1822./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. iv. + 5-23 + Letter, etc., p. [24].
III.
Cain;/ A Mystery./ By Lord Byron./ "Now the Serpent was more subtil than
any beast of the/ field which the Lord God had made."/ Gen. iii. I./
London:/ Printed for the Booksellers,/ _By H. Gray, No. 2, Barbican._/
1822./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. vii. + 8-72.
IV.
_Cain, A Mystery_. New York. 1822. [24.
_Collation_--
Pp. 100.
V.
_Cain, a Mystery_. Paris, A. and W. Galignani. 1822. [12º.
[Quérard, 1827.]
VI.
Cain,/ A Mystery./ By Lord Byron./ "Now the Serpent was more subtil than
any beast of the/ field which the Lord God had made."/ Gen. iii. I./
London:/ Printed for the Booksellers,/ Published by W. Benbow, 252, High
Holborn./ 1824./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. vii. + 8-85.
VII.
Lord Byron's/ Cain, A Mystery:/ with/ Notes:/ Wherein the/ Religion of
the Bible/ Is considered, in reference to acknowledged/ Philosophy and
Reason./ By Harding Grant;/ _Author of "Chancery Practice."_/ "Judge
Righteous Judgment,"/ "Prove all things."/ "Justify the ways of God."/
London:/ William Crofts, 19, Chancery Lane./ 1830./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xvi. + 432.
VIII.
Cain;/ A Mystery./ By Lord Byron./ "Now the Serpent was more subtil than
any beast of the field/ which the Lord God had made."--Gen. iii. I./ To
which is added/ A Letter from the Author/ To/ Mr. Murray, the original
Publisher./ London:/ J. Watson, 33, Windmill Street,/ Finsbury./ 1832./
[12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. iv. + 5-47 + Letter, etc., p. [48].
IX.
_Cain, a Mystery_. Breslau, Kern. 1840. [16º.
[Kayser, 1841.]
X.
Cain./ By/ Lord Byron./ "I tread on air, and sink not; yet I fear to
sink."/ New and Complete Edition.--Price One Penny./ London: J. Dicks,
313, Strand; and all Booksellers./ New York Samuel French & Son, 122,
Nassau Street--Sole Agents./ 1883, etc./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 143-160.
_Note_.--No. 203 of "Dicks' Standard Plays."
_Translations of Cain_.
_Bohemian_.
Kain/ Dramatická Báse[vn]/ Lorda Byrona/ Pr[ve]lo[vz]il/ Jose Durdík/ V
Praze/ Tisk a náklad dra. Ed. Grégra/ 1871/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 117.
_French_.
Caïn,/ Mystère dramatique/ En trois actes,/ De Lord Byron,/ Traduit en
vers français,/ Et réfuté dans une suite de remarques philosophiques/ et
critiques;/ Précédé/ d'une lettre adressée à Lord Byron, sur les motifs/
et le but de cet ouvrage,/ Par Fabre d'Olivet./ à Paris,/ Chez Servier,
libraire,/ rue de L'Oratoire, No. 6./ 1823./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 248 + p. [249], Table (R. "Fautes à corriger").
_German_.
I.
_Cain, ein Mysterium_. Deutsch v. G. Parthey. Berlin, Nicola'ische
Buchh. 1831. [12º.
[_Centralblatt_, vii. 468.]
II.
_Cain. Ein Mysterium_. Von Lord Byron. Frei übers. v. Adf. Seubert.
Leipzig. 1871-1876.
[Kayser, 1877.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 70.
_Note_.--No. 779 of _Universal Bibliothek_.
_Hebrew_.
[Hebrew: Kine, shir-chizayon al-pi kitvey hakodesh / me'et / Lord Byron
/ tirgem me'anglit le'ivrit / David Frishman / Varsha TRS ]
_Collation_--
Pp. xl. + 44.
_Hungarian_.
I.
_Kain_. [_Cain_, transl. by Ilona Györy.] Franklin-Társulat 1895.
[_Eg. Phil. Köz_., 1901, xxv. 222.]
II.
_Kain_. [_Cain_, transl. by Lajos Mikes.] (_Magyar Könyvtár_, p. 128.)
B'pest, Lampel. 1898.
[_Eg. Phil. Köz_., 1901, xxv. 224.]
_International Language_.
Kain./ Mistero/ de/ Lord Byron/ (Bajron)./ Tradukis A. Kofman./
Nurnbergo./ Presejo de W. Tümmel./ 1896./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. ix. + 102.
_Italian_.
_Caino: mistero_, tradotto da Andrea Maffei. Milano, Pirola. 1852-6.
[8º.
[Pagliaini, 1901.]
_Polish_.
Kain./ Poemat Dramatyczny/ Lorda Bajrona/ W trzech aktach/
prze[/l]o[.z]yl/ Adam Pajgert./ A wa[.z] by[/l] chytrzejszy nad wszystkie/
zwierz[e,]ta polne, które uczyni[/l] Pan Bóg./ Genezis R. III. w. I./
Lwów/ Nak[/l]adem Wydawnictwa Dziennika Literackiego./ 1868./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 125.
_Russian_.
I.
[Cyrillic: Kain" ... Perevod" Efrena barysheva. S.-Peterburg"], 1881.
II.
[Cyrillic: Kain" ... Perevod" P.A. Kalenova. Moskva], 1883.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_.
I.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage./ A Romaunt./ By/ Lord Byron./ L'univers est
une espèce de livre, dont on n'a lu que la première page quand on n'a vu
que son pays./ J'en ai feuilleté un assez grand nombre, que j'ai trouvé
également mauvaises. Cet examen ne m'a point/ été infructueux. Je
haïssais ma patrie. Toutes les impertinences des peuples divers, parmi
lesquels j'ai vécu,/ m'ont réconcilié avec elle. Quand je n'aurais tiré
d'autre bénéfice de mes voyages que celui-là, je n'en re/gretterais ni
les frais, ni les fatigues./ _Le Cosmopolite_./ London:/ Printed for
John Murray, 32, Fleet-Street;/ William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John
Cumming, Dublin./ _By Thomas Davison, White-Friars./_ 1812./ [4º.
_Collation_--
Title, one page, pp. i., ii.; Preface, pp. iii.-vi.; Cont. (_Errata_ on
Reverse); Sec. Half-title, pp. 1, 2; Text, pp. 3-226 + two pages of
publisher's advertisements, pp. [227, 228]. The Imprint (_T. Davison,
Lombard Street,/ Whitefriars, London./_) is at the foot of p. [228].
_Contents_--
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I p. 1
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II p. 59
Notes to Canto I p. 111
Notes to Canto II p. 119
Poems--
I. Written in an Album p. 165
II. To... p. 166
III. Stanzas p. 169
IV. Stanzas p. 171
V. Written at Athens p. 177
VI. Written after Swimming, etc. p. 178
VII. Song p. 181
VIII. Translation of a Greek War Song p. 183
IX. Translation of a Romaic Song p. 186
X. Written Beneath a Picture p. 189
XI. On Parting p. 190
XII. To Thyrza p. 192
XIII. Stanzas p. 195
XIV. To Thyrza p. 197
Appendix--
Romaic Books and Authors p. 203
Specimens of the Romaic p. 207
Fac Simile of a Romaic Letter [inserted between
Cont. and Half-title]
II.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage./ A Romaunt./ By/ Lord Byron./ [Motto from
_Le Cosmopolite_, seven lines.] The Second Edition./ London:/ Printed
for John Murray, Fleet Street;/ William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John
Cumming,/ Dublin./ _By Thomas Davison, White-Friars._/ 1812./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Half-title; Title, one leaf; Preface; Cont., pp. i.-xii.; Note on the
Errors in the Inscriptions at Orchomenus, _n.p._; Text, pp. 1-300. The
Imprint (_T. Davison_,/ _Lombard Street, Whitefriars, London_./) is at
the foot of p. 300.
_Contents_--
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos I. (93 stanzas), pp. 3-201
II. (88 stanzas) (N.)
_Poems_ (as in First Ed., Nos. I.-XIV.) pp. 205-237
XV. Euthanasia p. 241
XVI. Stanzas ("And thou art dead," etc.) p. 244
XVII. Stanzas ("If sometimes," etc.) p. 249
XVIII. On a Cornelian Heart, etc. p. 252
XIX. To a Youthful Friend p. 253
XX. To ---- ("Well! thou art happy") p. 260
Appendix p. 267
Specimens of the Romaic p. 273
Fac Simile of a Romaic Letter [inserted between
Half-title and Title]
III.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,/ A Romaunt: and/ Other Poems./ By/ Lord
Byron./ [Motto from _Le Cosmopolite_, six lines.] Third Edition./
London: _Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars._/ For John Murray, Fleet
Street;/ W. Blackwood, Edinburgh; and J. Cumming, Dublin./ 1812./ [8º.
_Note_.--Collation and Cont. are identical with those of the Second
Edition. The Note on the Errors in the Inscriptions at Orchomenus is
omitted. The Fac Simile of a Romaic Letter is inserted at the end of the
volume, after p. 300.
IV.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,/ a Romaunt:/ and/ Other Poems./ By Lord
Byron./ [Motto from _Le Cosmopolite_, six lines.] Fourth Edition./
London:/ _Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars_,/ For John Murray, Fleet
Street;/ William Blackwood, and J. Ballantyne and Co. Edin-/ Burgh; and
J. Cumming, Dublin./ 1812./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Preface, pp. v.-ix.; Addition to the
Preface, pp. ix.-xii.; Cont., pp. xi., xii. (_sic_); Text, pp. 1-300.
The Imprint is at the foot of p. 300.
_Note_.--The Cont. are identical with those of the Second Edition. The
Fac Simile of the Romaic Letter is inserted at the beginning of the
volume (in a bound copy between pp. 184, 185).
V.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,/ A Romaunt:/ and/ Other Poems./ By/ Lord
Byron./ [Motto from _Le Cosmopolite_, six lines.] Fifth Edition./
London:/ _Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars_,/ For John Murray,
(_removed to_) Albemarle-Street;/ William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and J.
Cumming,/ Dublin./ 1812./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Half-title, pp. iii., iv.; Title, one leaf, pp. v., vi.; Preface, pp.
vii.-xi.; Addition to the Preface, pp. xi.-xiv.; Cont., pp. xv.-xvi.;
Text, pp. 1-300. The Imprint is at the foot of p. 300.
_Note_.--The Cont. are identical with those of the Second Edition; but
the Fac Simile of the Romaic Letter is not mentioned in the Table of
Cont. nor inserted in the volume.
VI.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,/ A Romaunt:/ and/ Other Poems./ By Lord
Byron./ [Motto--_Le Cosmopolite_.] The First American Edition./
Philadelphia:/ Published by Moses Thomas,/ No. 52, Chestnut-Street./
William Fry, Printer. 1812./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 179.
_Note_.--"For sale in Philadelphia, by the publisher, M. Carey, and
Bradford and Inskip; in New York, by Inskip and Bradford, and J.
Eastburn; in Boston, by Munroe and Francis, and West and Blake; and in
Baltimore, by F. Lucas, Junr. William Fry, Printer. 1812."
VII.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,/ A Romaunt:/ And/ Other Poems./ By/ Lord
Byron./ [Motto from _Le Cosmopolite_, six lines.] The Sixth Edition./
London:/ _Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars_,/ For John Murray,
Bookseller to the Admiralty,/ And to the Board of Longitude,/ 50,
Albemarle-Street./ 1813./ [8º.
_Note_.--The Collation and Cont. are identical with those of the Fifth
Edition; but in the Table of Cont. the words "Fac Simile of a Romaic
Letter" occur as in the Fourth Edition; but in the copy belonging to
the British Museum the letter is not inserted. In the Sixth Edition the
words _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_ are printed in Roman type, and the
words _A Romaunt_ in Gothic type, whereas in all other editions
_Childe_, etc., is in Gothic, and _A Romaunt_ in Roman type.
VIII.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,/ A Romaunt:/ And/ Other Poems./ By/ Lord
Byron./ [Motto from _Le Cosmopolite_, six lines.] Seventh Edition./
London:/ _Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars_,/ For John Murray,
Albemarle-Street,/1814./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Half-title; Title, one leaf; Preface, etc.; Cent., pp. iii.-xvi.; Text,
pp. 1-296. The Imprint (_T. Davison, Lombard-Street,/ Whitefriars,
London_./) is at the foot of p. 296. The Fac Simile of the Romaic Letter
is inserted between pp. 294, 295.
_Contents_--
To Ianthe p. 3
Childe Harold's, etc., Canto I. (93 stanzas) p. 6
Childe Harold's, etc., Canto II. (98 stanzas) p. 65
Notes to Canto I. p. 121
Notes to Canto II. p. 125
Poems--
Nos. I.-XX. as in Eds. II.-VI. p. 191
XXI. From the Portuguese p. 245
XXII. Impromptu in Reply to a Friend p. 246
XXIII. Address to Drury-Lane Theatre p. 246
XXIV. To Time p. 250
XXV. Translation of a Romaic Love Song p. 252
XXVI. A Song ("Thou art not false," etc.) p. 255
XXVII. Origin of Love p. 257
XXVIII. Remember him p. 257
XXIX. Lines inscribed upon a Cup formed from a Skull p. 261
Romaic Books and Authors p. 264
Specimen of the Romaic p. 271
IX.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,/ A Romaunt:/ And/ Other Poems./ By/ Lord
Byron./ [Motto from _Le Cosmopolite_, five lines.] Eighth Edition./
London:/ Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street:/ _By Thomas Davison,
Whitefriars_./ 1814./ [8º.
_Collation_--Title, one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Preface, pp. iii.-vii.;
Addition to the Preface, pp. vii.-x; Cont., pp. xi., xii.; Text, pp.
1-296.
_Note_.--The Cont. are identical with those of the Seventh Edition.
X.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,/ A Romaunt:/ And/ Other Poems./ By/ Lord
Byron./ [Motto from _Le Cosmopolite_, five lines.] Tenth Edition./
London:/ Printed for John Murray; Albemarle-Street,/ 1815./ [8º.
_Collation_--Title (R. _T. Davison, Lombard street/ Whitefriars,
London./_), pp. i., ii.; Preface, pp. iii.-vii.; Addition to the
Preface, pp. vii.-x.; Cont., pp. xi., xii.; Text, pp. 1-302. The Imprint
(_T. Davison, Lombard-Street, /Whitefriars, London._/) is in the centre
of p. [304].
_Note_.--The Cont. are identical with those of the Seventh Edition, save
for the insertion of a thirtieth (No. XXX., p. 263) poem, "On the Death
of Sir Peter Parker."
XI.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage./ Canto the Third./ By Lord Byron./ "Afin que
cette application vous forçât de penser à autre chose; il n'y a/ en
vérité de remède que celui-là et le temps."/ Lettre du Roi de Prusse à
D'Alembert, Sept. 7, 1776./ London:/ Printed for John Murray,
Albemarle-Street./ 1816./ [8º.
_Collation_--Half-title (R. Published THIS DAY in 8vo. 5_s_.6_d_./ THE
PRISONER OF CHILLON;/ A DREAM;/ And Other Poems./ By the Right Hon. Lord
Byron./ _T. Davison, Lombard Street,/ Whitefriars, London._/); Title,
one leaf; Text, pp. 1-79.
_Note_ (1).--The Imprint, as above, is at the foot of p. 79; and on the
reverse of p. 79, "List of the Poems," etc.
_Note_ (2).--_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, Canto III., was published at
Boston, 1817, 16º, pp. 72; and, together with _The Prisoner of Chillon_
and other Poems, at Philadelphia, 1817, 16º.
XII.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage./ Canto the Fourth./ By Lord Byron./ Visto ho
Toscana, Lombardia, Romagna,/ Quel Monte che divide, e quel che serra/
Italia, e un mare e l'altro, che la bagna./ Ariosto, Satira iii./
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1818./ [8º.
_Collation_--Title, pp. i., ii.; Dedication, pp. iii.-xiv.; Cont.,
_n.p._; Text, pp. 1-257. The Imprint (_T. Davison, Lombard-Street,
Whitefriars, London_.) is at the foot of p. [259].
_Contents_--
Childe Harold's, etc., Canto IV. [N.] p. 3
Poems. _Romance_, etc. p. 240
Translation p. 241
Per Monaca. Sonetto di Vittorelli p. 256
Translation p. 257
_Note_ (1).--In another copy, Cont., _n.p._, precedes the Dedication.
_Note_ (2).--_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, Canto IV., to which are added
_Beppo_, and other Poems, was published at Philadelphia in 1818, 24º,
pp. 270.
XIII.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage./ Canto the Fourth./ By Lord Byron./
[Motto--Ariost., Sat. iii., four lines.] New York:/ Published by James
Eastburn and Co./ At the Literary Rooms, Broadway./ Clayton & Kingsland,
Printers./ 1818./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 143.
XIV.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,/ A Romaunt:/ And/ Other Poems./ By/ Lord
Byron./ [Motto from _Le Cosmopolite_, six lines.] Eleventh Edition./
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1819./ [8º.
_Note_.--The Collation of the preliminary matter is identical with that
of the Tenth Edition. The Cont. are also identical, save that on p. 274
a note headed "Conclusion" (on pp. 301, 302 of the Tenth Edition) is
omitted. The Imprint (_London:/ Printed by Thomas Davison,
Whitefriars./_) is at the foot of p. 274.
XV.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage./ A Romaunt,/ In Four Cantos./ By the Right
Honourable/ Lord Byron./ In Two Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II.] Containing
Cantos I., II./ London:/ John Murray,/ Albemarle-Street./ 1819./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: Title (R. _London:/ Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars./_), pp.
iii., iv.; Half-title (R. Motto, _Le Cosmopolite_, eight lines), pp. v.,
vi.; Preface, pp. vii.-xiv.; Cont., one leaf; Text, pp. 1-218. The
Imprint (_T. Davison, Lombard Street,/ Whitefriars, London./_) is in the
centre of p. [220].
Vol. II.: Title (R. Imprint, as above); Cont., one leaf; Text, pp.
1-273; Advt. of _Historical Illustrations_ (R. Imprint, _London:/
Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars_), pp. [275, 276].
XVI.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_. [Two vols.] Leipzig, Brockhaus. 1820. [8º.
[Kayser, 1834.]
XVII.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage./ A Romaunt./ By Lord Byron./ London:/
Printed and Published by W. Dugdale,/ Russell Court, Drury Lane./ 1825./
[12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. vi. + 7-182.
XVIII.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_. [Two vols.] Paris, A. and W. Galignani.
1825. [32º.
XIX.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage,/ A Romaunt:/ By Lord Byron./ London:/
Printed and Published by W. Dugdale/ 23, Russell Court, Drury Lane./
1826./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. vi. + 1-162.
XX.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage;/ A Romaunt./ In Four Cantos./ By Lord
Byron./ London:/ Printed for Thomas Colmer,/ 2, Bell-Isle, Battle
Bridge./ 1827./ [24º.
_Collation_--
Pp. vi. + 161.
XXI.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, a poem by Lord Byron. [Two vols.] Paris.
1827. [16º.
[_Le Moniteur_; etc., 1845.]
XXII.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage./ A Romaunt./ By the/ Right Hon. Lord Byron./
London:/ John Buncombe, 19, Little Queen Street,/ Holborn./ [1831?]
[12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 9-270.
_Note_.--The Front. is "Lord Byron," by T. Phillips, R.A., engraved by
R. Page.
XXIII.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage./ A Romaunt/ By/ Lord Byron./ Campe's
Edition./ Nuremberg and New York./ Printed and Published by/ Frederick
Campe and Cº/ [1831.] [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 333.
XXIV.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage./ A Romaunt./ By Lord Byron./ London:/ John
Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1837. [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 329. The Imprint (_London:/ Printed by A. Spottiswoode,/
New-Street-Square._) is in the centre of p. [330].
_Note_.--The Front., "Byron," is engraved by E. Finden, from the
portrait by E. Sanders. The Vignette, or illustrated Title, is the "Lake
of Geneva," engraved by E. Finden from a drawing by G. Stainfield, R.A.
This edition is bound in green cloth, stamped with coat-of-arms, uniform
with No. xiv. of Miscellaneous Poems.
XXV.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_. Mannheim, Hoffmann. 1837. [12º.
[Kayser, 1841.]
XXVI.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage./ A Romaunt./ By Lord Byron./ London:/ John
Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1841. [8º.
_Collation_--
Half-title (R. Motto from _Le Cosmopolite_, seven lines), pp. i., ii.;
Title (R. _Bradbury and Evans, Printers extraordinary to the Queen,
Whitefriars._), pp. iii., iv.; Preface, and Addition to Preface, pp.
v.-viii.; List of Embellishments, pp. ix.-xi.; Half-title, pp. xiii.,
xiv.; To Ianthe, pp. xv., xvi.; Text, pp. 1-320. The Imprint, as above,
is at the foot of p. 320.
_Note_.--The Front. is a portrait of "Lord Byron, in his Albamanian
Dress," by T. Phillips, R.A., engraved by W. Finden. The Title-vignette
on illustrated title is the "Monument of Lysicrates," drawn by H.
Warren, engraved by W. Finden. There are fifty-nine other
"embellishments," and, inserted between pp. [228], [229], a Map of Lord
Byron's Route through Spain, Portugal, Holland, etc., with "Picturesque
Border."
XXVII.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, with Notes by Lord Byron, Carton demi rel.
Jolie éd. London. 1842. [12º.
[_Le Moniteur_, etc., 1845.]
XXVIII.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage./ A Romaunt./ By Lord Byron./ London:/ John
Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1853./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xii. (To Ianthe, pp. xi., xii.) + 311. The Imprint (_London:/
Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars./_) is in the centre of P.
[312].
XXIX.
_Childe Harold herausg. von Aug. Mommsen_. Hamburg, Th. Niemeyer. 1853.
[Hamburg, 1869.] [8º.
[Kayser, 1860.]
_Collation_--
Pp. iv. + 189.
XXX.
_Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage_,/ von/ Lord Byron./ [Two Vols.] Erklärt/
von/ Ferd. Brockerhoff./ Erstes Bändchen./ Berlin./ Verlag von Th. Chr.
Fr. Enslin./ 1854./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 163.
_Note_.--Bdchn. of _Sammlung englischer Schriffsteller_. Berlin, Th.
Enslin. 1853-1855. "Siebentes Bändchen" contains Cantos I., II.;
"Neuntes Bändchen" (pp. 214), published in 1855, contains Cantos III.,
IV.
XXXI.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage/ A Romaunt/ By Lord Byron/ Illustrated From
Original Sketches/ London:/ John Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1859./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Title (R. Motto, _Le Cosmopolite_, six lines; Note, two lines);
Vignette, "Newstead Abbey" (R. The Illustrations drawn on Wood by
Percival Skelton./ Engraved by J.W. Whymper and J. Cooper./); List of
Illustrations, four pages; Text, pp. 1-329. The Imprint (_Printed by R.
and R. Clark, Edinburgh_) is at the foot of p. 329.
_Note_.--This edition was reissued in 1869.
XXXII.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage./ A Romaunt./ By Lord Byron./ New Edition./
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1860./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 192. The Imprint (_London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons,
Stamford Street_) is at the foot of p. 192.
_Note_.--Murray's Complete Edition. Price One Shilling. The Front. is
"The Earliest Portrait of Byron. Taken at the age of 7 years, from an
original by Kay, Edinburgh," engraved by E. Finden.
XXXIII.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage./ A Romaunt./ By Lord Byron./ A New Edition./
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1860./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 60. The Imprint (_London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons,
Stamford Street,/ And Charing Cross./_) is on Reverse of Title.
_Note_.--"Murray's Complete Edition." Price Sixpence. The Front. is a
lithograph of the portrait of Lord Byron, by T. Phillips, R.A.
XXXIV.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_. A Romaunt. Leipzig, B. Tauchnitz. 1862.
[16º.
[Kayser, 1865.]
XXXV.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage/ A Romaunt/ By/ Lord Byron/ With a Memoir/
By/ William Spalding, A.M./ Professor of Logic and Rhetoric in the
University of Saint Andrews/ Illustrated/ London/ Charles Griffin and
Company/Stationer's Hall Court/ [1866] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 180.
_Note_.--The Front, is an engraving of the medallion by E.W. Wyon.
XXXVI.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_. A Romaunt. Mit erläut. Anmerkungen zum
Schul-u. Privatunterricht bearb. von P. Weeg. 1867. [8º.
_Note_.--No. V., Sammlung gediegener u. interessanter Werke der
englischen Litteratur. Münster, Brunn's Verl. 1868-1870. [Kayser, 1871.]
XXXVII.
Byron's/ Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage/ A Romaunt/ With Notes/ W. & R.
Chambers/ London and Edinburgh/ 1877/ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 180.
XXXVIII.
Lord Byron/ Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage/ Édition classique/ Par/ James
Darmesteter/ Docteur ès-Lettres/ Directeur-Adjoint à l'École des Hautes
Études/ Paris/ librairie Ch. Delagrave/ 15, rue Soufflot, 15/ 1882/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxv. + 342.
XXXIX.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_. Texte anglais, revu et annoté par l'abbé
A. Julien. Paris, Poussielque frères. 1883. [12º.
[Lorenz, 1886.]
XL.
Clarendon Press Series/ Byron/ Childe Harold/ Edited/ With Introduction
and Notes/ By/ H.F. Tozer, M.A./ Fellow and Tutor of Exeter College,
Oxford/ At the Clarendon Press/ 1885/ [_All rights reserved_]/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 336.
XLI.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_. Illustrated. London, Chatto. 1885. [8º.
[_Eng. Cat._, 1891.]
XLII.
Lord Byron,/ Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage./ A Romaunt./ Erklärt/ von/
August Mommsen./ Berlin./ Weidmannsche Buchhandlung./ 1885./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxvi. + 367.
XLIII.
Cassell's National Library./ Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage./ By/ Lord
Byron./ Cassell & Company, Limited:/ London, Paris, New York &
Melbourne./ 1886./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 192.
XLIV.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage/ A Romaunt/ By Lord Byron/ Illustrated/
Boston/ Ticknor and Company/ 1886/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 236.
XLV.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_: edited with Notes by W.J. Rolfe,
Philadelphia. 1886. [16º.
[Detroit Public Library.]
XLVI.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_. Leipzig, Gressner & Schramm. 1886. [16º.
[Kayser, 1887.]
XLVII.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_. By Lord Byron. Im Auszuge m. Anmerkgn. zum
Schulgebrauch hrsg. v. Mart. Krummacher. Mit Anmerkgn. unter dem Text.
_Note_.--No. 13 of "English Authors." Bielefeld, Velhagen, and Klasing.
1885-1886. [Kayser, 1887.]
XLVIII.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage/ A Romaunt/ By/ Lord Byron/ London/ George
Routledge and Sons/ Broadway, Ludgate Hill/ Glasgow and New York/ 1888/
[16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 9-320.
_Note_.--Part of "Routledge's Pocket Library."
XLIX.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_. Im Auszuge hrsg. v. Mart. Krummacher.
1891. [Reissued in 1893.] [12º.
_Note_.--Part of "English Authors," _vide supra_, No. xlvii.
L.
Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Best Books/ 29/ Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage/
A Romaunt/ By/ Lord Byron/ London/ George Routledge and Sons, Limited/
Broadway, Ludgate Hill/ Manchester and New York/ 1892/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. x. + 11-249.
LI.
Byron's/ Childe Harold/ With Introduction and Notes/ By/ H.G. Keene,
Hon. M.A. Oxon.,/ Fellow of Calcutta University, Author of "A Manual of/
French Literature," etc./ London/ George Bell & Sons, York St., Covent
Garden/ And New York/ 1893/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xx. + 255.
LII.
Byron/ Childe Harold/ Texte Anglais/ Publié avec une Notice, des
Arguments/ Et des Notes en Français/ Par Émile Chasles/ Inspecteur
général de l'Instruction publique/ Paris/ Librairie Hachette et C'ie/
79, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 79/ 1893/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxvi. + 261.
_Note_.--This edition was reissued in 1894.
LIII.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: a Romaunt_. New York, T.Y. Crowell & Co.
1894.
[_Amer. Cat._, 1895.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 9 + 283.
LIV.
Arnold's British Classics for Schools/ General Editor:/ J. Churton
Collins, M.A./ Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage/ Edited by/ The Rev. E.C.
Everard Owen, M.A./ Late Fellow of New College, Oxford; Assistant
Master/ In Harrow School./ Edward Arnold/ London/ 37 Bedford Street/ New
York/ 70 Fifth Avenue/ [1897] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. lxii. + 236.
LV.
Childe/ Harold/ A Romaunt/ George/ Gordon/ Lord/ Byron/ 1898. Published.
by. J.M. Dent. / And. Co.. Aldine. House. London. E.C./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xii. + 310 + Note (one leaf) by Editor, I.G., October 1, 1898.
_Note_.--Part of the "Temple Classics," edited by Israel Gollmer, M.A.
The Front. is a photogravure of the portrait of "George Gordon Lord
Byron," by T. Phillips, R.A.
LVI.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage/ A Romaunt by Lord Byron/ Cantos I. and II./
Edited with Notes and an Introduction by/ Edward E. Morris/ Professor of
English in the University of Melbourne/ London/ Macmillan and Co.,
Limited/ New York: The Macmillan Company/1899/ _All rights reserved/_
[8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxvi. + 115.
LVII.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage/ A Romaunt by Lord Byron/ Cantos III. and
IV./ Edited with Notes and an Introduction by/ Edward E. Morris/
Professor of English in the University of Melbourne/ London/ Macmillan
and Co., Limited/ New York: The Macmillan Company/ 1899/ _All rights
reserved/_ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxvi. + 168.
_Note_.--The Introduction (pp. vii.-xxxvi.) is a repetition of the
Introduction to the preceding volume.
LVIII.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: a Romaunt_. Cantos 1, 2, 3, and 4; Edited
with Notes and Introduction by E. Morris. New York, The Macmillan Co.
[Two vols.] 1899. [8º.
[_Amer. Cat._, 1900.]
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. 36 + 115.
Vol. II.: pp. 36 + 168.
_Note_.--Part of "Macmillan's English Classics."
LIX.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: a Romaunt_. Edited with Introduction and
Notes by Andrew J. George. New York., The Macmillan Co. 1899. [16º.
[_Amer. Cat._, 1900.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 34 + 282.
_Note_.--Part of "Macmillan's Pocket English Classics."
LX.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_. New York, Cassell. 1900.
[_Amer. Cat._, 1901.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 192.
_Note_.--Part of "Cassell's National Library," N.S.
LXI.
Lord Byron/ Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage/ Canto II./ Edited by/ John
Downie, M.A./ Editor of Macaulay's Lives of Johnson and Goldsmith, Etc.
Etc./ London/ Blackie and Son, Limited, 50 Old Bailey, E.C./ Glasgow and
Dublin/ 1901/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 47.
LXII.
Lord Byron/ Childe Harold's/ Pilgrimage/ Canto III./ Edited by/ John
Downie, M.A./ [etc., _vide supra_, No. lxi.] 1901/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 47.
_Note_.--This and the preceding volume form part of "Blackie's English
Classics."
_Translations of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_.
_Armenian_.
Lord Byron/ Childe Harold's Pilgrimage/ Italy/ [Canto IV.] Venice/
Printed/ at the Armenian Monastery of S. Lazarus/ 1872/ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 147.
_Note_.--The Armenian verse, translated by Gheuond Alíshanian,
accompanies the English original. The Notes are in the Armenian
language.
_Bohemian_.
_Childe Haroldova pout'_ Prelozila El. Krásnohorská [in Kabinetní
Knihovna]. 1890.
_Danish_.
Junker Harolds Pilgrimsfart./ Et Romantisk Kvad./ Af/ Byron./ Oversat
af/Adolf Hansen/Kjøbenhavn./ Forlagt af J.H. Schubothes Boghandel./
Græbes Bogtrykkerei. 1880/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 237.
_French_.
I.
_Le Pélerinage de Childe Harold_, poème romantique de lord Byron,
traduit en vers français par l'auteur des _Helléniennes_ et des
_Mélodies poétiques_. Paris, Dupont. 1828. [18º.
[Quérard, 1846.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 288.
II.
_Le Pélerinage de Childe Harold_, traduit par P.A. Deguer. Paris,
Ponthieu. 1828. [18º.
[Quérard, 1846.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 84.
III.
Le Pélerinage/ de/ Childe Harold/ Traduction en vers français/ Par/
Eugène Quiertant./ [Motto, _Le Cosmopolite_, nine lines.] Paris/
Librairie de Ch. Blériot,/ rue Bonaparte, 25. 1861./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. viii. + 266 + "Note de L'Éditeur," one leaf.
_Note_.--Le premier chant de cette traduction avail déja été publié en
1852. [Lorenz, 1867.]
IV.
Childe Harold/ Poëme de Lord Byron/ Traduit en vers français/ Par/
Lucien Davésiès de Pontès./ Tome premier./ Paris/ E. Dentu,
libraire-éditeur,/ Galerie D'Orléans, Palais-Royal./ 1862./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Vol. I.: pp. lv. + 232.
Vol. II.: pp. 334 + "Errata," one leaf, p. [335].
V.
_Le Pélerinage de Childe Harold_, traduit en vers d'après l'édition
anglaise de 1812; précédé de Marie-Magdaleine, poëme, et de diverses
poésies, par Victor Robert Jones, Saint-Quentin, _imprimerie Monreau_.
1862. [12º.
[Lorenz, 1867.]
VI.
_Childe Harold_, poëme de lord Byron, traduit en vers français par
Lucien Davésiès de Pontès, 2^e édition revue et corrigée par le
bibliophile Jacob. Paris, _Amyot_. 1870. [12º.
[Lorenz, 1876.]
VII.
_Childe Harold_. Expliqué littéralement, traduit en français et annoté
par H. Bellet. Paris, _Hachette et Cie_. 1881.
[12º.
[Lorenz, 1886.]
VIII.
_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_. Traduction française littérale, par l'Abbé
A. Julien. Paris, _Poussielque frères_. 1883.
[12º.
[Lorenz, 1886.]
IX.
_Childe Harold_, Édition classique, précédée d'une notice littéraire,
par M.A. Elwall. Paris, _Delalain frères_. 1892.
[12º.
[Lorenz, 1900.]
X.
_Childe Harold_, Édition classique, avec une notice biographique et
littéraire, un appendice et des notes par Douglas Gibb. Paris, _Belin
frères_. 1892. [12º.
[Lorenz, 1900.]
_German_.
I.
_Harold, der Verwiesene_. Aus. d. Engl. v. Karl Baldamus. Leipzig,
Hartmann. 1835. [8º.
[Kayser, 1841.]
II.
Ritter Harold's Pilgerfahrt./ Aus dem Englischen/ des/ Lord Byron./ Im
Versmass des Originals übersetzt/von/ Zedlitz:/ Stuttgart und Tübingen,/
Verlag der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. 1836./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xvi. + 381 + Berichtungen, p. [382].
III.
_Jungherrn Harold's Pilgerfahrt_. Aus d. Engl. ins Deutsche übersetzt
von Dr. Herm. v. Pommer Esche. Stralsund, Löffler'sche Buch. 1839. [8º.
[Kayser, 1841.]
IV.
_Erster Gesang des Childe Harald_. Freie Uebertragung in Reimen v. C.D.
Ansbach, Dollfuss. 1845. [12º.
[Kayser, 1848.]
V.
Byron's/ Ritter Harold/ von/ Adolf Böttger/ Diamantausgabe./ Leipzig./
Druck und Verlag von Otto Wigand./ 1846./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 194.
_Note_.--The Front. is a portrait of "Byron" (by G. Sanders), engraved
by A.H. Payne.
VI.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgerfahrt/ von/ Lord George Gordon Byron./ Aus dem
Englischen im Versmass des Originals/ übersetzt/ von/ Alexander
Büchner./ Frankfurt a/ M./ Verlag von Meidinger Sohn und Cie./ 1853./
[16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxiii. + 342.
_Note_.--The translation was reissued in 1855.
VII.
Harold's/ Pilgerfahrt./ Aus dem Englischen des Lord Byron./ Uebersetzt
von/ Erich von Monbart./ Köln, 1865./ Druck, Franz Greven,
Burgmauer-Ecke 113. [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 143.
VIII.
Childe Harold's/ Pilgerfahrt/ von/ Lord Byron./ Deutsch/ von/ A.H.
Janert./ Hildburghausen./ Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts./
1868./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 191.
_Note_.--No. 87 of the "Bibliothek ausländischer Klassiker."
IX.
Jung Harold's/ Pilgerfahrt./ Von Byron./ Aus dem Englischen metrisch
übersetzt/ von/ Ferdinand Schmidt./ Berlin./ Verlag von W.O.H.
Stempelmann./ 1869./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 132 + "Anmerkungen," pp. [133, 134].
X.
_Ritter Harold's Pilgerfahrt_. Eine Romanze v. Lord Byron. Frei ubers.
v. Adf. Seubert. [16º.
[Kayser, 1877.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 224.
_Note_.--Nos. 516, 517 of the "Universal Bibliothek," Leipzig, 1871-76.
XI.
_Childe Harold's Pilgerfahrt_. Ein Epos. Übertr. v. F. Dobbert. 1893.
[8º.
[Kayser, 1894.]
_Collation_--
Pp. vi. + 192.
_Note_.--Part of the "Bibliothek der Gesammtlitteratur d. In u.
Auslandes."
_Hungarian_.
Childe Harold/ Byron/ után/ anya nyelvéböl magyarra forditotta/
Bickersteth Johanka/ Nyomtatta PUKY MIKLOS Genfben/ 1857/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 211. [Line-borders.]
_Italian_.
I.
L'Italia,/ Canto IV./ del pellegrinaggio/ di Childe H_A_Rold,/ Scritto/
da Lord Byron,/ E tradotto/ da Michele Leoni./ Italia,/ 1819./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 77.
II.
_Il pellegrinaggio del Giovine Aroldo_: poema di Lord Byron, tradotto dá
Giuseppe Gazzino genovese. Genova, tipografia arcivescovile, 1836. [8º.
[_Bibl. Ital._, Nov.-Dec., 1836.]
III.
L'Italia/ Canto/ di Lord Byron/ Accomodato/ All' indole del verso
italiano/ da/ Melchior Missirini/ Publicato per cura/ del professore/
Francesco Longhena./ Milano/ Coi tipi di Vincenzo Guglielmini/ 1848/
[8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 95.
IV.
_Il pellegrinaggio del giovane Aroldo_: poema recato in italiano da Fr.
Armenio. Napoli, 1858. [8º.
[Pagliaini, 1901.]
V.
_Il pellegrinaggio del giovane Aroldo_: con la traduzione armena. Ultimo
canto. Venezia. t.s. Lazard, 1860. [8º.
[Pagliaini, 1901.]
VI.
Byron/ Pellegrinaggio D'Aroldo/ Traduzione/di/Giovanni Giovio/ [Then
something on poetry/] Schak./ Milano/ Giuseppe Bernardoni/
Tipografo-editore/ 1866/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxxiii. + 122 + "Note," pp. [125, 126].
VII.
Italia/ Canto di Giorgio Byron/ Tradotto/ da/ Andrea Maffei./ Firenze,/
Successori le Monnier./ 1872./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 190.
_Note_.--This edition was reissued in 1874 and in 1897.
VIII.
Il pellegrinaggio/ D'Aroldo./ Poema/ di Lord Byron/ Tradotto/ da Carlo
Faccioli./ [Emblem, rose and butterfly, with motto, "_Non Bramo Altr'
Esca._"] Firenze,/ G. Barbèra, editore./ 1873./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xii. + 249 + Indice, p. [251].
_Polish_.
I.
_Poezye w t[/l]umaczeniu polskiém_. Tom. I. (przez Micha[/l]a
Budzyúskiego): Wedrówki Czaild Harolda. pp. 256. _M. Wolf: Petersburg_,
1857. [8º.
II.
_Pielgrzymka Czajlda Harolda_ ... z=polszczone przez Wiktora z Baworowa,
_etc. we Lwowie_, 1857. [12º.
III.
_W[e,]drówki Czaild-Harolda_ ...Prze[/l]o[.z]y[/l] Frederyk Krauze.
1865-71.
IV.
_W[e,]drówki Rycerza Harolda_ ...Przek[/l]ad Jana Kasprowicza.
_Warszawa_, 1895.
V.
_W[e,]drówki Czaild-Harolda_ ... T[/l]ómaczony ... przez A.A.
K[rajewskiego], _Kraków_, 1896.
_Russian_.
I.
[Cyrillic: Chail"d"-Garol"d" ... per. D. Minaeva.] [" [Cyrillic: Russkoe
Slovo]," 1864.]
II.
[Cyrillic: Chail'd"-Garol'd" ... per. P.A. Kozlova.] ["[Cyrillic:
"Russkaya Miesl"]," 1890. No. 1, 2, 11.]
_Swedish_.
Childe Harolds/ Pilgrimsfärd/ Af/ Lord Byron./ Öfversatt Af/ A.F.
Skjöldebrand./ Stockholm./ Tryckt Hos Johan Hörberg,/ 1832./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 192.
_The Corsair_.
I.
The Corsair,/ A Tale./ By Lord Byron./ "---- I suoi pensieri in lui
dormir non ponno."/ Tasso, _Canto decimo, Gerusalemme Liberata_./
London:/ _Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars_, For John Murray,
Albemarle-Street./ 1814./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Half-title, one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.;
Dedication, "To Thomas Moore, Esq.," pp. v.-xi.; Text (and Notes), pp.
1-100.
_Note_.--The Text numbers 1863 lines, the half-lines 154, 159, 669 being
reckoned as whole lines. Other half-lines are not so reckoned, and the
First Edition actually numbers 1860 lines.
II.
The Corsair,/ A Tale./ By Lord Byron./ "---- I suoi pensieri in lui
dormir non ponno."/ Tasso, _Canto decimo, Gerusalemme Liberata_./ Second
Edition./ London:/ _Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars_,/ For John
Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1814./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Half-title, etc. (_vide supra_); Text, with Notes and Six Poems, pp.
1-108. The Imprint (_T. Davison, Lombard Street,/ Whitefriars,
London./_) is at the foot of p. 108.
_Poems_--
To a Lady weeping p. [101]
From the Turkish p. 102
Sonnet, To Genevra ("Thine eyes," etc.) p. 104
Sonnet, To Genevra ("Thy cheek," etc.) p. 105
Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog p. 106
Farewell ("Farewell! if ever," etc.) p. 108
III.
The Corsair,/ A Tale./ ... Third Edition./ ... 1814./ [8º.
_Collation_--
_Vide supra_, No. 1. The Imprint (_Printed by T. Davison,
Lombard-Street,/ Fleet Street._/) is at the foot of p. 100.
_Note_.--The Poems which were inserted in the Second Edition pp.
[101]-108, were omitted in the Third Edition.
IV.
The Corsair,/ A Tale./ ... Fourth Edition.... 1814./ [8º.
_Collation_--
_Vide supra_, the Second Edition, No. ii.
_Note_.--The Poems inserted in the Second, and omitted in the Third, are
included in the Fourth Edition.
V.
The Corsair,/ A Tale./ By Lord Byron./ [Motto as above, No. i.] Fifth
Edition./ London:/ Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street;/ _By
Thomas Davison, Whitefriars_,/ 1814./ [8º.
_Collation_--
_Vide supra_, the Second Edition, No. ii.
VI.
The Corsair,/ A Tale./ ... Sixth Edition./ ... 1814./ [8º.
_Collation_--
For Title, _vide supra_, the Fifth Edition, No. v.
VII.
The Corsair,/ A Tale./ ... Seventh Edition./ ... 1814./ [8º.
_Collation_--
_Vide supra_, Second Edition, No. ii.
_Note_.--In this edition the last four lines of Canto I. stanza xi.
("The first may turn ... still it stings!") were added, together with
the Note, to Canto II., p. 33, line 18, "It has been objected," etc. The
poem numbers 1863 lines, the additional lines not being included in the
numeration.
VIII.
The Corsair,/ A Tale./ By Lord Byron./ [Motto as above.] From the Fifth
London Edition./ New-York:/ Published by Eastburn, Kirk, and Co./
Literary Rooms, Corner of Wall and Nassau Streets./ 1814./ [6º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xi. + 108.
_Note_.--_The Corsair_ was also published in Philadelphia in 1814, 16º.
IX.
The Corsair;/ A Tale./ By Lord Byron./ [Motto as above.] Ninth Edition./
London:/ Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1815./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Half-title, one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.;
Dedication, pp. v.-xi.; Text, with Notes, pp. 1-112. The Imprint (_T.
Davison, Lombard-Street,/ Whitefriars, London._/) is at the foot of p.
112.
_Note_.--The poem numbers 1864 lines, the four new lines at the end of
Canto I. stanza xi. being included in the numeration. Pp. 101-104
contain "Note 17, p. 95, last line," on the Pirates of Barataria, and
(secondly) on Archbishop Blackbourne.
X.
The Corsair,/ A Tale./ By Lord Byron./ [Motto as above.] Tenth Edition./
London:/ John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1818./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Half-title (R. _London:/ Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars_./), pp. 1,
2; Title, one leaf, pp. 3, 4; Dedication, pp. 5-9; Text, pp. 11-96;
Notes, pp. 97-105; Poems, pp. [107]-114.
_Note_.--The poem is (incorrectly) numbered 1873 lines, line 1506 being
numbered 1511.
XI.
The Corsair./ A Tale./ By Lord Byron./ [Motto as above.] London: Printed
and Published by W. Dugdale,/ _23, Russell Court, Drury Lane_./ 1825./
[12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 72.
XII.
The Corsair./ A Tale./ By Lord Byron./ "---- I suoi pensieri in lui
dormir non ponno"--Tasso./ [London, 1844.] [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. iv. + 5-48.
_Note_.--Part of "Clarke's Home Library."
XIII.
The Corsair:/ A Tale./ By/ Lord Byron./ London: Archd. K. Murray & Co.,/
30 Queen Square, W.C.:/ Glasgow: 243 Parliamentary Road./ 1867./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 122.
_Note_.--- Part of "Murray's Standard Poets."
_Translations of The Corsair_.
_German_.
I.
_Der Korsar_, eine Erzählung. [Deutsch v.] F.L. von Tschirsky. Berlin,
Maurer. 1816. [12º.
[_Centralblatt, etc._, 1890, vol. vii, p. 472.]
II.
_Der Korsar_, eine Erzählung. [Deutsch von] Elise von Hohenhausen.
Altona, Hammerich. 1820. [8º.
[_Centralblatt, etc._, 1890, vii. 461.]
III.
_Der Korsar_. Erzählung. Aus d. Engl. übers. v. Friederike Friedmann.
Leipzig, Brockhaus. 1852. [16º.
[Kayser, 1853.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 90.
IV.
_Der Corsar_. Gedicht, Aus d. Engl. von Viet. v. Arentsschild. Mainz,
Iabern. 1852. [16º.
[Kayser, 1853.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 139.
V.
_Der Korsar_. Eine Erzählg. v. Lord Byron. Frei übers. v. Adf. Seubert.
Leipzig, Ph. Reclam, jr. [1871-76.] [16º. [Kayser, 1877.]
_Collation_--
Pp. 69.
_Note_.--No. 406 of the "Universal-Bibliothek."
_Hungarian_.
A Kalóz./ Irta/ Lord Byron./ Angolból Forditotta/ Kacziány Géza./
Budapest./ Franklin-Társulat/ Magyar Irod. Intézet és Könyvnyomda./
1892./ [16º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 74.
_Italian_.
I.
Il Corsaro/ Novella/ di/ Lord Byron/ Versione in prosa/ di L.C./ Torino/
Vedova Pomba e figli/ 1819/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. v. + 131.
_Note_.--The Front. is a lithograph of the portrait of "Giorgio Byron,"
by G.H. Harlow. A translation, "Al Tempo," "Time on whose arbitrary
wing," pp. [129], 131, follows the Notes to the _Corsair_. The
translation includes the four additional lines at the end of Canto I.
stanza xi., but not the Note on the "Pirates of Barataria."
II.
Il Corsaro/ Novella/ di/ Lord Byron/ Versione in prosa/ di L.C./ Seconda
edizione riveduta dall' autore./ Milano/ Presso Rodolfo Vismara/ 1820/
[8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 4 + 5-123.
_Note_.--For Front., _vide supra_, No. i.
III.
_Il Corsaro_, novella di lord Byron. Traduzione dall' inglese di
Giuseppe Nicolini. Milano, tip. di Giovanni Silvestri. 1842. [16º.
[_Bibl. Ital._, June, 1842.]
_Collation_--
Pp. xlviii. + 106.
IV.
_Il Corsaro_, novella Inglese, tradotta da Eritreo Migdonio. Firenze,
1842, tipografia Piatti.
[_Bibl. Ital._, July, 1843.]
V.
Il/ Corsaro/ di/ Lord Byron/ Versione del Cavaliere/ Luigi Serenelli
Honorati/ Già Presid. di Corte d'Appello/ Bologna/ Tip. Mareggiani All'
Insegna di Dante/ _1797, Via Malcontenti_, 1797/ 1870/ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 95.
VI.
II Corsaro/ Novella di Lord Byron/ Versione/ di/ Carlo Rosnati/ [1879]
[8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 96 + Sonnet, "Santa Rosa," p. [97].
_Russian_.
[Cyrillic: Morskoye razboynik". Perevod" B. Olina (B" prozye).
S.-Peterburg"], 1827.
_Spanish_.
I.
_El Corsario_. Por el Byron, traducido en castellano por M.... Imp. de
David à Paris. A Paris, rue du Temple, N. 69. 1827. [18º.
[_Bibl. de le France_, Aug. 22, 1827.]
II.
_El_/ _Corsario_/ Por/ Lord Byron./ Valencia:/ Imprenta de Cabrerizo./
1832./ [32º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 272.
_Swedish_.
Corsaren./ Af/ Lord Byron./ [Motto as above.] Stockholm,/ Tryckt Hos
Joh. Beckman, 1868./
_Collation_--
Pp. 96.
_Note_.--"Ofversattning af Talis Qualis."
_The Curse of Minerva_.
I.
The Curse of Minerva./ London:/ Printed by T. Davison, Lombard Street,
Whitefriars./ 1812./ [4º.
_Collation_--
Title, one leaf, pp. 1, 2; Text, pp. 3-25. The Imprint (_Printed by T.
Davison, Lombard Street,/ Whitefriars, London_./) is in the centre of p.
[27].
_Note_.--The pages of the Text measure 280 x 220.
II.
The/ Curse of Minerva./ A Poem,/ By the Right Honourable/ Lord
Byron/---- Pallas te hac [_sic_] vulnere, Pallas/ Immolat, et poenam
scelerato ex sanguine sumit./ Philadelphia:/ Printed for De-Silver and
Co./ 1815./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 24.
_Note_.--It is probable that this edition, which closely resembles the
later separate issues of the _Corsair_, the _Bride of Abydos_, and the
_Giaour_, was printed in London.
III.
The/ Curse of Minerva./ A Poem./ By the Right Honourable/ Lord
Byron./---- Pallas te hac [_sic_] vulnere, Pallas/ Immolat, et poenam
scelerato ex sanguine sumit./ Third Edition./ Paris./ Published by
Galignani/ at the French, English, Italian, German and Spanish/ Library,
No. 18, Rue Vivienne./ 1818./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Half-title, one leaf, pp. 1, 2; Title, one leaf, pp. 3, 4; Text, pp.
5-[21]. The Imprint (_Printed by A. Belin_) is at the foot of P. [21].
_Note_ (1).--A Fourth Edition, identical with the Third, was issued by
Galignani in 1820. Quérard (1827) records the issue of a Second Edition,
published by A. and W. Galignani in 1818.
_Note_ (2).--_The Curse of Minerva_ (full text) is included in the fifth
volume of the edition of Byron's Works published by Louis and Baudry in
1825 (see W. No. xviii.); in the first volume of the Fifth Edition, in
sixteen volumes, published by A. and W. Galignani in 1822 (see W. No.
xix.), but was not published, in its entirety, in England till 1831 (see
W. No. xliii.).
For a bibliographical note on _The Curse of Minerva_, first published as
_The Malediction of Minerva, or The Athenian Marble Market_ (111 lines),
in the _New Monthly Magazine_, April, 1818, vol. iii. p. 240, and often
reprinted in a mutilated form, see _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 452.
_The Deformed Transformed_.
The/ Deformed Transformed;/ A Drama. By the/ Right Hon. Lord Byron./
London, 1824:/ Printed for J. and H.L. Hunt,/ Bond Street, and Tavistock
Street./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Half-title (R. _London:/ Printed by C.H. Reynell, Broad Street, Golden
Square./_), pp. 1, 2; Title, pp. 3, 4; Author's Advt., p. 6; _Dramatis
Personæ_, one leaf, pp. 7, 8; Text, pp. 9-88. The Imprint, as above, is
at the foot of p. 88.
_Note_.--A Second and Third Editions, identical with the First, were
issued in 1824.
II.
_The Deformed Transformed_, a drama by the Right hon. lord Byron. Impr.
de A. Belin, à Paris, chez A. et W. Galignani, 1824. [12º.
[_Bibl. de le France_, March 27, 1824.]
_Note_.--_La Metamorphose du Bossu_ forms part (pp. 1-103) of Tome
Quinzième of _Oeuvres Complètes_ de Lord Byron. Paris, Ladvocat/ 1824./
(See Transl. of Coll. Ed. No. i.)
III.
The/ Deformed Transformed./ By/ Lord Byron./ [Illustration, "What do I
see?"] New and Complete Edition. --Price one Penny./ London: J. Dicks,
313, Strand; all Booksellers./ [1883, etc.] [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 583-597.
_Note_.--The _Deformed Transformed_ is No. 113 of "Dicks' Standard
Plays."
_Translation_.
_Hungarian_.
Budapesti/ Árvizkönyv./ etc. Szerkeszti/ B. Eötvös József./ Negyedik
Rötet./ Pesten,/ Kiadja Heckenast Gusztáv./ 1840./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Lord Byron'/ Elváltoztatott Idomtalanjából/ Töredek,/ Lukács Móricztól./
pp. 111-140.
_Don Juan_.
_Cantos I., II._
I.
Don Juan./ "Difficile est proprie communia dicere."/ Hor. _Epist. ad
Pison._/ London:/ Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars./ 1819./ [4º.
_Collation_--
Half-title, one leaf; Title, one leaf; Second Half-title, pp. 1, 2;
Text, pp. 3-227. The Imprint (_London:/ Printed by Thomas Davison,
Whitefriars./_) is in the centre of p. [228].
_Contents_--
Canto I. p. 3
Notes to Canto I. p. [115]