i. _Édition Classique_, par James Darmesteter, Docteur-ès-lettres. Paris, 1882. ii. Byron's _Childe Harold_, edited, with Introduction and Notes, by H. F. Tozer, M.A. Oxford, 1885 (Clarendon Press Series). iii. _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, edited by the Rev. E.C. Everard Owen, M.A. London, 1897 (Arnold's British Classics). Particular acknowledgments of my indebtedness to these admirable works will be found throughout the volume. I have consulted and derived assistance from Professor Eugen Kölbing's exhaustive collation of the text of the two first cantos with the Dallas Transcript in the British Museum (_Zur Textüberlieferung von Byron's Childe Harold, Cantos I., II. Leipsic_, 1896); and I am indebted to the same high authority for information with regard to the Seventh Edition (1814) of the First and Second Cantos. (See _Bemerkungen zu Byron's Childe Harold, Engl. Stud._, 1896, xxi. 176-186.) I have again to record my grateful acknowledgments to Dr. Richard Garnett, C.B., Dr. A. S. Murray, F.R.S., Mr. R. E. Graves, Mr. E. D. Butler, F.R.G.S., and other officials of the British Museum, for constant help and encouragement in the preparation of the notes to _Childe Harold._ I desire to express my thanks to Dr. H. R. Mill, Librarian of the Royal Geographical Society; Mr. J. C. Baker, F.R.S., Keeper of the Herbarium and Library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Mr. Horatio F. Brown (author of _Venice, an Historical Sketch_, etc.); Mr. P. A. Daniel, Mr. Richard Edgcumbe, and others, for valuable information on various points of doubt and difficulty. On behalf of the Publisher, I beg to acknowledge the kindness of his Grace the Duke of Richmond, in permitting Cosway's miniature of Charlotte Duchess of Richmond to be reproduced for this volume. I have also to thank Mr. Horatio F. Brown for the right to reproduce the interesting portrait of "Byron at Venice," which is now in his possession. ERNEST HARTLEY COLERIDGE. _April_, 1899. INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST AND SECOND CANTOS OF _CHILDE HAROLD_.