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—

Note (Vol. I.).—On fly-leaf: "To the R^t Honourable Lord Byron from his ob^t. servant Geo Ticknor, June 20. 1815."

"This book was given to me by Lord Byron, April 20, 1816, on his leaving England. Scrope Davies."

ΑΠΟ: ΙΩ:
Κεφ. θ.

Καὶ ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις ζητήσουσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι τὸν θάνατον καὶ οὐχ εὑρήσουσιν αὐτὸν' καὶ ἐπιθυμήσουσιν ἀποθανεῖν, καὶ φεύξεται ὁ θάνατος ἀπ' αὐτῶν

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,[I] 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.

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—

Note.—In later issues of Vol. III., 1815, the note on the "Pirates of Barrataria" is inserted and paginated 133*-137*.

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.

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—

Collation—

Pp. 1-64 (title-page unnumbered).

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—

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.

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—

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.

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—

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.)

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.

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—

Note.—The Poems (fifty-seven in all) include the Ode to Venice.

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—

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—

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.

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—

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.

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.

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—

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.

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—

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—

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.

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.

Note.—Vol. XXXIII. was issued in 1838. [Kayser, 1841.]

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.—

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.