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
Thoughts suggested by a College Examination p. 113
Answer to some elegant Verses, etc. p. 118
Granta, a Medley p. 121
Lachin Y Gair p. 129
To Romance p. 133
Elegy on Newstead Abbey p. 137
Childish Recollections p. 148
The Death of Calmar and Orla p. 169
To E.N.L., Esq. p. 173
To ---- p. 184
_Note_ (1).--A facsimile of the Title-page (2) faces p. xii. of vol. i.
of the _Poetical Works_, 1898. It has been alleged that large-paper
copies of this edition were issued from the Newark press. It is certain
that large copies (a copy in the British Museum, cut for binding,
measures 220 X 122), printed on paper bearing a water-mark dated 1806,
were thrown upon the market at an early period, but it has not been
ascertained at what date or in what place they were printed. They are
undoubtedly deliberate forgeries. They purport, even in respect of
_errata_, to be identical with the genuine issue of 1807; but they were
not set up from the same type, and it is inconceivable that a second
issue, set up from different type and with slightly different ornaments,
was printed by Ridge for piratical purposes. To cite a few obvious
differences--in the title of the large-paper copies the first A of the
word "TRANSLATED" is printed Λ [Greek: L ], and the Greek ν [Greek: n]
in αινεε [Greek: ainee] and νεικει [Greek: neikei] appears as υ [Greek:
u] (not ν [Greek: n] reversed); in the Errata on the reverse of p.
xiii., [Page] "153 Note" is incorrectly given as "163 Note," and this
slip on the part of the _falsarius_ is more remarkable, as two other
errata in the Errata are carefully reproduced; in the Greek motto on p.
22 the letter ρ [Greek: r] twice appears as ς [Greek: s]; and, finally,
the ornaments on pp. 1 and 187, though intended to be, are not
identical. In the Museum copy a portrait of "Lord Byron, from a sketch
taken on his leaving England," engraved by I. West, and "Published by V.
Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1819," precedes the title-page, and, together with
the binding, affords good, if not conclusive, proof that this copy was
printed before 1820.
See, for a correspondence on these L.P. copies of 1807, the _Athenæum_,
June, 1898, pp. 694, 695.
See, too, for further interesting and conclusive evidence that the
ornament on p. 187 of the L.P. copies was not printed from the Newark
block, _Newark as a Publishing Town_, by T.M. Blagg, 1898, pp. 28-30.
_Note_ (2).--An autograph note, dated May 20th, 1812, signed "Byron," is
inserted on the fly-leaf of a large-paper copy in the Rowfant Library
(_Catalogue_, 1886, p. 144).
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