The Works of Lord Byron Volume VII Part 79

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Pp. v. + [7]-61. The Imprint (_W. Benbow, Printer, Castle-st.

Leicester-sq._) is at the foot of p. 61.

_Note_.--The Text numbers 1050 lines. This edition follows the Third Edition of 1810.

XVI.

English Bards/ And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ By Lord Byron./ [Mottoes as above, six lines.] A New Edition,/ With a Life of the Author./ To which is added/ Fare Thee Well, A Poem./ Glasgow:/ Printed by James Starke,/ and sold by All the Booksellers./ 1824./ [12.

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Pp. xiv. + 15-52 + Fare Thee Well! pp. [53], [54].

_Note_.--The Text numbers 1050 lines, as in the Third Edition. The misprint "ingenious" for "ingenuous" occurs in a footnote to p. 16.

XVII.

English Bards/ and/ Scotch Reviewers:/ A Satire./ By Lord Byron./ [Mottoes as above, six lines ("Shakspeare").] A New Edition,/ With a life of the Author./ To which is added/ Fare Thee Well, A Poem./ Glasgow:/ Printed for M'Intosh & Co./ And sold by All the Booksellers./ 1825./ [12.

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Pp. xiv. + 34.

_Note_.--The Text numbers 1050 lines. This edition is differently paginated from the preceding, and the Notes are reset (the misprint "ingenious" is corrected), but the Text, Preface, and the "Life of the Author" seem to have been set up from the same type.

XVIII.

English Bards/ and/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire,/ By Lord Byron./ London:/ Printed and Published by W. Dugdale,/ _23, Russell Court, Drury Lane_./ 1825./ [12.

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Pp. 50.

_Note_.--The Text numbers 1050 lines. The Notes are printed after the text, pp. 35-50. In Note 3 the misprint "ingenious" is retained. _The English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers_ (Third Edition, of 1050 lines) was included in the _British Satirist_, Glasgow, 1826, 12, pp. 1-46, and formed part (pp. 139-178) of a collection of Satires, Gilford's _Baviad and Maeviad_, etc., published by J.F. Dove, London, 1827, 12. The misprint "ingenious" has been corrected in both these issues.

XIX.

English Bards,/ And/ Scotch Reviewers,/ A Satire./ By/ Lord Byron./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew,/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ _Shakspeare_./ Such shameless bards we have; and yet, 'tis true,/ There are as mad abandoned critics too. _Pope_./ A New Edition./ London:/ Printed by T. Kay, at the Egyptian Press, 1, Welbeck Street,/ Cavendish Square, For the Booksellers./ 1827./ [8

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Half-t.i.tle, pp. i., ii.; t.i.tle, pp. iii., iv.; Preface, pp. v.-vii.; Text, pp. 1-78; Postscript (_sic_), pp. [79]-80. The Imprint (_Printed by T. Kay, 1, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square_.) is at the foot of p.

80.

_Note_.--The Text follows the Third Edition of 1810. The misprint "ingenious" occurs in a footnote to p. 4. The words "A Satire,"

"Shakspeare," and "Pope" on the t.i.tle-page are in Gothic characters.

_Fare Thee Well_.

I.

_Fare Thee Well_. First Version, consisting of Thirteen Stanzas, dated March 18, 1816. [249 x 190.

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Pp. [1]-[3].

II.

_Fare Thee Well_! [Printed and distributed, April 4, 1816.] [4.

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Pp. [1]-3. P. [4] is blank. A copy of this pamphlet in the British Museum is marked as "Privately printed for Lord Byron," and measures 237 x 173. The watermark is "J. GREEN, 1815."

_Note_.--The Text numbers 60 lines. Lines 1-24 are on p. [1]; lines 25-56 on p. 2; and lines 57-60 on p. 3. In line 28 "may" is printed "?ay." _Fare Thee Well_ was first published in _The Champion_, Sunday, April 14, 1816.

III.

_Fare Thee Well_. Second Version, consisting of Sixty Lines, dated Monday, "April 7, 1816." [250 x 190.

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Pp. 1-3.

IV.

_A Sketch from Private Life_, consisting of 104 lines, dated March 30th, 1816. [250 x 190.

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Pp. [1]-4.

V.

_A Sketch, etc._ Another copy, dated March 30, 1816, and endorsed, "Correct with most particular care, and print off 50 copies, and keep standing. 1816, April 2."

VI.

_Fare Thee Well_!--A Sketch, etc.--Napoleon's Farewell.--On the Star of the Legion of Honour.--An Ode. By Lord Byron. London: _Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, Paternoster Row_, 1816. [8.

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Pp. 27.

_Note_.--"Original blue paper cover."--_Catalogue of Rowfant Library_, 1886, p. 146.