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Pp. 80.

Note.—No. 6 of "Byron's Poetiska Berattelser," translated by Talis-Qualis.

[Note.—For the First Edition of Heaven and Earth, see The Liberal, No. II., pp. 165-206 (London, L. Hunt, 1822).]

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Pp. 35 + "Benbow's Catalogue of Books," p. [36]. The Imprint (Benbow, Printer, 9, Castle Street, Leicester Square, London) is at the foot of p. [36].

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Pp. 36.

Note.—This edition, printed by (?) W. Dugdale in (?) 1825, bears neither Title-page nor Imprint, and is bound up with The Bride of Abydos, printed for Thomas Wilson in 1825, and The Corsair, printed and published by W. Dugdale in 1825.

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Half-title, Le Ciel/ Et La Terre./ Mystère/ Fondé sur ce Passage de La Genèse:/ (Chap. VI)/: "Et il arriva ... que les fils de Dieu virent que les filles des/ hommes étaient belles; et ils prirent pour femmes/ celles d'entre elles qu'ils choisirent./ "La femme regrettant son dèmon bien-aimé."/ (Coleridge.)/ (R. Personnages.), pp. [195], [196] + Text, pp. 197-252.

[The Title-page is enclosed in an ornamental border, and below the words, "Drawn by Edward Blore" is the signature "I. Braham;" and below the words, "Engraved by W. Lowry," the signature "I. Nathan."]

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Part I.: Illuminated Dedication "To Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales," one leaf; Preface, signed "I. Braham, I. Nathan," and dated "London, April, 1815," one leaf; Index to the First Number, one leaf; Music and Words, pp. 1-64.

Part II.: Title (A Selection of,/ etc.... By the Right Honorable Lord Byron.)/ [Motto], "The harp the Monarch Minstrel swept," etc., five lines./ See Page 4./ Lord Byron./ 2^nd Number, Price 1 Guinea./ Ent^d at Stationers' Hall./ Published and Sold, etc./ Prickett scrip. et sculp./ [The Title-vignette is King David playing a harp with angel and tripod, engraved by H. Moses.] The title is signed "I. Nathan."

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Title, one leaf; Dedication, as above, one leaf; Index to the Second Number, one leaf; Music and Words, pp. 65-133.

Contents—Part I.—

Part II.—

Note.—For a reissue, with additions, of this collection, see Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron, etc., by I. Nathan, 1829, No. xii., p. 254.

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Half-title (Hebrew Melodies. T. Davison, Lombard-Street,/ Whitefriars, London./), one leaf; Title, one leaf; Advt.; Cont.; Text (Hebrew Melodies), pp. 1-53.

Note.—The Cont. are identical with the preceding, save that the lines, "Francisca," a variant of Parisina (lines 15-28), are omitted; the lines From Job are inserted pp. 49, 50; and the stanzas "On the Death of Sir Peter Parker" (pp. 51-53) are printed at the end of the volume.

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Pp. 2 + 43.

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Pp. 36. The Imprint (Printed by W. Dugdale, Great Street, Leicester Square./) is at the foot of p. 36.

Note.—The lines "It is the Hour" (Parisina, 1-14) and "Francisca" (ibid., lines 15-28) are omitted.

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Pp. 22. The Imprint (Printed by W. Dugdale, 23, Russell Court, Drury Lane.) is at the foot of p. 22.

Note.—For Cont., vide supra, No. v.

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Pp. 41 + Indhold, pp. [43], [44].

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Pp. viii. + 3-87.

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Pp. 49.

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Pp. 105 + Anmerkung, p. 106 + Anhang, pp. 107-112.

Note.—The English text is printed over against the German. The "Anhang" contains translations of "In the valley," etc., and "They say that hope," etc.

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Pp. 45 + Cont. (Hebrew character) (R. Advt. of Hebrew Poems (with vowel points) of Dr. S. Mandelkern), pp. [47], [48].

Note.—The Hebrew translation is over against the English text. The Title-page, which is in Hebrew and English, is enclosed in an arabesque border.

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Pp. 47.

Note.—Printed on green paper.

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Pp. 41 + Innehåll, p. [43].

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Advt. of issue (No. 22 of 100 numbered copies) of—Printers,/ Chiswick Press, Tooks Court,/ Chancery Lane, London./ signed (MS.) "Charles Whittingham & Co.," pp. i., ii.; Half-title (Byron's Fugitive Pieces), pp. iii., iv.; Title, one leaf, pp. v., vi.; Preface (editorial of facsimile), pp. vii.-x. + blank leaf + Half-title (Fugitive Pieces), one leaf + Dedication—"To/ Those Friends,/ At/ Whose Request They were printed,/ For whose/ Amusement or Approbation/ They are/ Solely Intended;/ These Trifles are respectfully Dedicated,/ by the/ Author."/ (R. As these Poems were never intended to meet the public eye, no apology is necessary for the form in which they now appear. They are printed merely for the perusal of a few friends to whom they are dedicated; who will look upon them with indulgence; and as most of them were composed between the age of 15 and 17, their defects will be pardoned or forgotten, in the youth and inexperience of the Writer.) + Text, pp. [1]-66; (the Imprint (Printed by S. and J. Ridge, Newark.) is at the foot of p. 66) + p. [67] (emblem-heraldic lion with shield and monogram, subscribed with the Imprint, Chiswick Press:—C. Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court,/ Chancery Lane./).

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Note.—The original volume measures 8¾ ins. x 7½ ins. The wrapper is of plain greenish-grey paper. The full Titles are given in the Table of Cont. or in the heading of the Poems in Poetical Works, 1898, vol. i. pp. xviii., etc. In the original issue the pages are numbered on the head of each page, and subscribed with a double rule. "Ornaments" are to be found on pp. [1], 3, 13, 14, 16, 40, 58, 60, 64, 66.

The signatures B (p. [1]) to S (p. 65) are in due sequence. The numbers at the head of the pages are subscribed with a double rule.

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Pp. 12 + 144—Half-title, one leaf, pp. [1], [2]; Title, one leaf, pp. [3], [4]; Dedication (as above), pp. [5], [6]; Author's Advt., dated December 23, 1806, pp. [7], [8]; Cont., pp. [9]-11; Text, 1-144. The Imprint (Printed by S, and J. Ridge, Newark.) is at the foot of p. 144.

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Note.—The Title measures 193 X 113. The first signature, C, is on p. 9; M, on p. 81; O (not N), on p. 89; Q, on p. 105; U, on p. 137. Signature P is omitted on p. 97.

The "ornaments" of the Quarto reappear on pp. [1], 9, 25, 32. The numbers at the head of the pages are subscribed with a double rule. A facsimile of the Title-page faces p. x. of vol. i. of the Poetical Works, 1898.

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Half-title (Hours/ of/ Idleness.), one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Preface, pp. [v.]-xiii. (R. Errata); Text, pp. [1]-187. The Imprint (Printed by S. and F. Ridge, Newark.) is at the foot of p. 187.

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Note (1).—A facsimile of the Title-page (2) faces p. xii. of vol. i. of the Poetical Works, 1898. It has been alleged that large-paper copies of this edition were issued from the Newark press. It is certain that large copies (a copy in the British Museum, cut for binding, measures 220 X 122), printed on paper bearing a water-mark dated 1806, were thrown upon the market at an early period, but it has not been ascertained at what date or in what place they were printed. They are undoubtedly deliberate forgeries. They purport, even in respect of errata, to be identical with the genuine issue of 1807; but they were not set up from the same type, and it is inconceivable that a second issue, set up from different type and with slightly different ornaments, was printed by Ridge for piratical purposes. To cite a few obvious differences—in the title of the large-paper copies the first A of the word "TRANSLATED" is printed Λ, and the Greek ν in αινεε and νεικει appears as υ (not ν reversed); in the Errata on the reverse of p. xiii., [Page] "153 Note" is incorrectly given as "163 Note," and this slip on the part of the falsarius is more remarkable, as two other errata in the Errata are carefully reproduced; in the Greek motto on p. 22 the letter ρ twice appears as ς ; and, finally, the ornaments on pp. 1 and 187, though intended to be, are not identical. In the Museum copy a portrait of "Lord Byron, from a sketch taken on his leaving England," engraved by I. West, and "Published by V. Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1819," precedes the title-page, and, together with the binding, affords good, if not conclusive, proof that this copy was printed before 1820.

See, for a correspondence on these L.P. copies of 1807, the Athenæum, June, 1898, pp. 694, 695.

See, too, for further interesting and conclusive evidence that the ornament on p. 187 of the L.P. copies was not printed from the Newark block, Newark as a Publishing Town, by T. M. Blagg, 1898, pp. 28-30.

Note (2).—An autograph note, dated May 20th, 1812, signed "Byron," is inserted on the fly-leaf of a large-paper copy in the Rowfant Library (Catalogue, 1886, p. 144).

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[? a Half-title]; Title, one leaf, pp. ii., iii.; Dedication (To The Right Honourable/ Frederick,/ Earl of Carlisle,/ Knight of the Garter,/ etc., etc./ The Second Edition/ Of/ These Poems is inscribed,/, By/ His Obliged Ward,/ And/ Affectionate Kinsman,/ The Author.), pp. iv., v.; Cont, pp. [vi.]-viii. (R. Errata); Text, pp. [1]-174. The Imprint (Printed by S. and J. Ridge, Newark-upon-Trent) is at the foot of p. 174.

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Note.—The Front. is a lithograph of Harrow-on-the-Hill, with quotation—

A facsimile of the Title-page faces p. xii. of vol. i. of the Poetical Works, 1898.

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Half-title with Imprint (T. Davison, Whitefriars,/ London.), pp. i., ii.; Title, one leaf, pp. iii., iv.; Preface, pp. v.-xi.; Cont., pp. xiii.-xv. (R. "Errata."); Text, pp. 1-255. The Imprint, as above, is in the centre of p. [256].

Note.—Lord Byron contributed nine poems (signed L.B.; see Preface, p. xi., to this volume) to this volume, viz.: (i.) To a Youthful Friend ("Few years have past," etc.), p. 185; (ii.) Inscription on the Monument of a Favourite Dog, p. 190; (iii.) To—— ("Well! thou art happy," etc.), p. 192; (iv.) The Farewell To a Lady ("When man expell'd," etc.), p. 195; (v.) A Love Song to —— ("Remind me not," etc.), p. 197; (vi.) Stanzas To the Same ("There was a time," etc.), p. 200; (vii.) To the Same ("And wilt thou weep," etc.), p. 202; (viii.) Song ("Fill the goblet again," etc.), p. 204; (ix.) Stanzas to —— on leaving England ("'Tis done," etc.), p. 227.

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Half-title, one leaf; Title, one leaf; Advt.; Dedication; Cont.; Text, pp. 1-149 + "Critique ... Ed. Rev., No. 22," etc., pp. [150]-158.

Note.—A reproduction of Poems Original and Translated, Newark, 1808.

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Half-title, pp. i., ii.; Title, pp. iii., iv.; Dedication, pp. v., vi.; Cont., pp. vii., viii.; Text, pp. 1-160. The Imprint (Sherwin and Co., Printers,/ Paternoster Row./) is at the foot of p. 160.

Note.—A reproduction of Poems Original and Translated, Newark, 1808. The Front. (a sketch of Harrow-on-the-Hill) is engraved by Eastgate from a painting by H. Halsted, Esq. It is a reproduction (re-touched) of the Front. to the Newark Edition of 1808.

There were two issues of this edition (A and B). In A (Printed for Sherwin and Co. 24 Paternoster Row) the Front. is without letters; the past tenses and participles are printed "bloom'd," "mail-cover'd," etc.; and on p. 160 the Imprint, as above, is at the foot of p. 160. In B (Printed for W. T. Sherwin, etc.) the Front. is subscribed with the name of painter and engraver; the past tenses are printed "bloomed," etc., in full; and the Imprint (Sherwin, Printer,/ Paternoster Row./) is at the foot of p. 160.

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This edition is identical with that of 1819, No. vi. p. 252. The Cont. are printed at the end of the volume.

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Title, pp. i., ii.; Preface, pp. iii.-viii. + Cont. + Text, pp. 9-183.

Note.—A reissue of Hours of Idleness, Newark, 1807.

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Half-title (R. Printed by A. Belin), one leaf; Title, one leaf; Cont.; Text (including Second Half-title and Dedication), pp. 1-152 + Critique, etc., pp. [153]-168.

Note.—A reissue of the Newark edition of 1808, but a distinct edition from those published by Galignani in 1819, 1820.

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Title, one leaf; Preface, pp. i.-iii. (R. Cont.); Text, pp. 1-84.

Note.—This edition, a reissue of Hours of Idleness, Newark, 1807, was bound in a paper wrapper with ornamental border, uniform with "English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers—price sixpence."

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Pp. xxxvi. + 196. The Imprint (Plummer and Brewis, Printers, Love Lane, Eastcheap.) is at the foot of p. 191.

Note.—The Fugitive Pieces include the two selections from Parisina included in Hebrew Melodies No. i., and three "original pieces of Lord Byron, which have never before appeared in print;" viz. "I speak not—I trace not," etc., "In the valley of waters," and "They say that hope is happiness."

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Half-title, one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Title, one leaf, iii., iv.; Advt., pp. v., vi.; Cont., pp. vii., viii.; Text, pp. 9-39 + Notes, p. [40]. The Imprint (London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co./ Cleveland-row, St. James's./) is at the foot of p. [40].

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Note.—The motto from Coleridge's Christabel ("Alas! they had been friends in youth") (14 lines) is on p. 20.

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Title, one leaf, pp. 3, 4; Text, pp. 5-31 + Note ("The first two Poems were last produced.—The other/ five follow in the order wherein they were written."/ April, 1816.), p. [32]. The Imprint (Hay and Turner, Printers, Newcastle Street, Strand.) is at the foot of p. [40].

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Note.—The Half-title is missing in the Museum copy. The Note prefixed to "Waterloo" in the Morning Chronicle (March 15, 1816) is reprinted, together with the heading, "Said to be done into English Verse by R. S****, P.L. P.R. Master of the Royal Spanish Inqn.—etc., etc., etc."

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Gen. Half-title (New/ Poems,/ By/ Lord Byron./) (R. Hay & Turner, Printers, Newcastle-Street, Strand.), pp. 1, 2; Title, one leaf, pp. 3, 4; Text, pp. 5-31. The Note and Imprint, as above, are on p. [32].

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Title (Imprint as above), pp. 1, 2; Text, pp. 3-31. The Note (altered to "The other Six follow," etc.) and the Imprint, as above, are on p. [32].

Note.—The additional poem is the Adieu to Malta on pp. 12- 14. The lines Fare Thee Well, which are printed in the First and Second Editions in stanzas, are in the Sixth Edition printed continuously.

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Title (R. Imprint as above), pp. 1, 2; Memoirs, etc., pp. 3-6; Text, pp. 7-32.

Note.—The additional poem is the mutilated version of The Curse of Minerva (111 lines). The Front. is a lithograph of "Lord Byron," after F. Sieurac.

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Title (R. Imprint as above), pp. 1, 2; Memoirs, etc., pp. 3-8 + Text, pp. 8-40.

Note.—The Text of the Fifteenth Edition is identical with the Text of the Sixth Edition (pp. 3-[32]), including Note and Imprint on p. [32]. The Curse of Minerva is on pp. 33-40. The Imprint, as above, is repeated on the foot of p. 40.

Collation— Half-title (Poems, etc./ Entered at Stationers'-Hall./), one leaf, pp. 1, 2; Title, one leaf, pp. 3, 4; Preface, pp. 5, 6; Text, pp. 7-15.

Note.—The edition contains Fare Thee Well, and A Sketch, etc., without the other poems published by Hone.

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Title, one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Memoirs, etc., pp. iii.-vi.; On Reading Lord Byron's Farewell to England, pp. i.-iii. (R. Cont.); Text, pp. 1-50. The Imprint (Mary Bryan, Printer,(51)Corn-Street, Bristol.) is at the foot of p. 50.

Note.—This edition contains the nine poems published by Hone (1816), four forgeries, six of the Poems published by Murray in 1816, and, with a separate pagination, the lines On Reading Lord Byron's Farewell to England ("——Still my bosom's indignation").