The Works of Lord Byron Volume VII Part 31

_The Complete Works_, etc., including his suppressed poems and others never before published. In Four Volumes. Paris, Baudry. 1832. [8.

[_Katalog der Bucher_, von Eduard Grisebach, 1894, p. 127.]

_Note_.--The Front. is "Lord Byron," from a portrait by Hopwood.

Querard, 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. 4. 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, 8.

XLIX.

The/ Complete Works/ of Lord Byron,/ Reprinted from the last London Edition,/ with considerable additions, now first published;/ Containing/ Notes and Ill.u.s.trations/ 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. Sh.e.l.ley, 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./ [8.

_Collation_--

Pp. x.x.xiii. + 935--Half-t.i.tle (R. _Printed by H. and A. Firmin Didot, rue Jacob, No. 24._), pp. i., ii.; t.i.tle, pp. iii., iv.; (Publisher's) Advt., pp. v., vi.; Cont. pp. vii.-x.; The Life of Lord Byron, pp.

xi.-x.x.xiii.; 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 t.i.tle-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. [8.

[Querard, 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./ [8.

_Collation_--

Pp. viii. + 827--t.i.tle (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 ill.u.s.trated t.i.tle 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./ MDCCCx.x.xVII./

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 Ill.u.s.trated/ 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 Princ.i.p.al Booksellers on the Continent./ 1837./ [8.