The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. PoetryByron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
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The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
Poetry
Half-title (R. _London: Printed by C.H. Reynell, Broad Street, Golden
Square_./), pp. 1, 2; Title, one leaf, pp. 3, 4; Text, pp. 5-36. The
Imprint (_London:/ C.H. Reynell, Printer, 45, Broad-Street,
Golden-Square_.) is at the foot of p. 36.
_Note_.--The Second and Third Editions are identical with the First,
save that in the Third Edition the Imprint at the foot of p. 36 runs
thus: _London:/ Printed by C.H. Reynell, Broad Street, Golden-Square_. A
page of advertisements ("_Works about to be published by_ Mr. John Hunt,
22, _Old Bond Street_") follows p. 36 in the Second Edition. The _Age of
Bronze_ was reissued by John Hunt in 1825 and in 1830 (the Miscellaneous
Works, Part II. pp. 1-35), and by (?) W. Dugdale, 1824, together with
other poems; and, in France, by A. and W. Galignani, Paris, 1823 (12º.),
but was not included in any of John Murray's Collected Editions till
1831.
_Beppo_.
I.
Beppo,/ A Venetian Story./ ROSALIND. Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: Look,
you lisp, and wear/ Strange suits; disable all the benefits of your own
country; be out of love/ with your Nativity, and almost chide God for
making you that countenance/ you are; or I will scarce think that you
have swam in a GONDOLA./ AS YOU LIKE IT, Act iv. Sc. 1./ _Annotation of
the Commentators_./ That is, been at _Venice_, which was much visited by
the young English/ gentlemen of those times, and was then what _Paris_
is _now_--the seat of all dissoluteness. S.A./ Second Edition./ London:/
John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1818./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 49. The Imprint (_T. Davison, Lombard-Street, Whitefriars,
London_./) is at the foot of the Reverse of the Half-title.
_Note_ (1).--The Text numbers 95 stanzas.
_Note_ (2).--"Beppo, a Venetian Story. [Quotation.] London: _John
Murray, Albemarle Street_. 1818. 8vo. Pp. 49" (the First Edition), is
included in the catalogue of the _Rowfant Library_, 1886, p. 146.
II.
Beppo,/ A Venetian Story./ By Lord Byron./ [Motto, nine lines, as
above.] Fifth Edition./ London:/ John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1818./
[8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 51. The Imprint, as above, is at the foot of p. 51. The Imprint (_T.
Davison, Lombard-Street, Whitefriars_./) is at the foot of the Reverse
of the Half-title.
_Note_.--The Text numbers 99 stanzas. Byron sent four additional
stanzas, viz. stanzas xxviii., xxxviii., xxxix., lxxx., to Murray
_circ._ March 9, 1818. A Second Edition of Beppo, _vide supra_, was
published March 12, 1818, and the fifth, May 30, 1818. The intervening
editions, third and fourth, were not advertised in the _Morning
Chronicle_, _Morning Post_, _Courier_, and, in the absence of direct
evidence, it may be conjectured that the additional stanzas first
appeared in the Fifth Edition. A Sixth Edition, and a Seventh Edition
identical with the Fifth Edition, were issued in 1818.
III.
_Beppo; a Venetian Story_. Boston. 1818. [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 36.
IV.
_Beppo, A Venetian Story_. Paris, A. and W. Galignani. 1821. [12º.
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