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
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./ Shakspere./ Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis
true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd critics too./ Pope./ Fifth Edition,/
Unpublished; with considerable additions./ London:/ Printed for James
Cawthorne,/ Cockspur Street./ 1812./
At the end of the volume a MS. version of "Lines on the Removing Lady
Jersey's Portrait from the Gallery of Beauties," is on pp. [85], [86],
and a MS. version of "On a Recent Discovery, 1813," on p. [89].
P. xiv. is headed by the following MS. note: "Lord Byron has two copies
of this work, R.C. Dallas, Esq., has likewise two copies, and Mr. Leigh
Hunt one."
VIII.
_English Bards, etc.; a Satire_. 1st Amer. from 3rd London Ed.
Philadelphia. 1811. [8º.
[Cat. of Boston Athenæum Library, 1874.]
IX.
_English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire_. By Lord Byron.
Charleston: Moxford, Wellington & Co., 1811. [8º.
X.
_English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers_. Boston. 1814. [12º.
_Collation_--
Pp. 72.
XI.
English Bards/ And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ By Lord Byron./ From
the last London Edition./ 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, abandon'd critics
too./ Pope./ New York:/ Published by A.T. Goodrich & Co., 124
Broad-/Way, Corner of Cedar-Street./ _I. Seymour, print._/ 1817;./
[12º.
_Collation_--
Title, one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Preface to the Third Edition, pp. iii.,
iv.; Text, pp. 5-54.
_Note_.--The text numbers 1050 lines, but lacks the Postscript. The
misprint "ingenious" for "ingenuous youth," in footnote (p. 7) to line
56, which belongs to the Fourth Edition of 1811, and was corrected by
Byron for the Fifth Edition, occurs in this edition.
XII.
English Bards, And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ Ode to the Land of the
Gaul.--Sketch/ From Private Life.--Windsor/ Poetics, Etc./ By/ The Right
Honorable/ Lord Byron./ Second Edition./ Paris:/ Published by Galignani/
At the French, English, Italian, German, and Spanish/ Library, No. 18,
Rue Vivienne./ 1818./ [12º.
_Collation_--
Title, one leaf; Second Half-title, pp. 1, 2; Preface, pp. 3-5; Text,
pp. 7-70; Postscript, pp. 71-73; Ode, etc., pp. 75-84.
_Note_.--The Text numbers 1052 lines. This edition follows the Fourth
Edition of 1811. The misprint "ingenious" for "ingenuous" is in a
footnote, p. 10. A Third Edition, identical with the Second, was issued
in 1819.
XIII.
English Bards,/ And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ With Notes and
Preface,/ By/ Lord Byron./ Brussels,/ Published at the English
Repository of Arts, No. 602,/ Rue de L'Impératrice./ Printed by Demanet,
Rue des Bogards./ 1819./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Title, one leaf; Half-title with Mottoes, pp. 1, 2; Preface, pp.
[3]-[5]; Text, pp. 7-62; Postscript, pp. 63, 64.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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