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
"Single sheet foolscap 8vo, consisting of Half-title, 'Dedication/
to/Don Juan,/' with Imprint on verso ('London:/ printed by C. and W.
Reynell, Broad Street,/ Golden Square'); Title-page, 'Dedication/ to/
Don Juan./ by/ Lord Byron./ London:/ Published by Effingham
Wilson,/Royal Exchange./ 1833./' On the verso of this is a note--
"'[_Why the following Dedication did not appear with the two first
published Cantos of the Poem cannot be explained--unless the connection
between_ Mr. MURRAY _and_ Mr. SOUTHEY _sufficiently explains it_.]'
"The first page of the Text (p. 5, but not numbered) contains the
dropped head 'Don Juan./ Dedication.' and one stanza. Pp. 6-10 contain
two stanzas each, and p. 11 one. The headline 'Don Juan' runs from p. 6
to p. 11, and the stanzas are numbered in Roman capital figures. P. 12
is blank, and is followed by a Half-title, 'Notes,' with a blank verso.
The Notes occupy pp. 15 and 16, of which 15 is not numbered, but has a
dropped head, 'Notes.' Page 16 is numbered, and has the headline
'Notes.'"
[Illustration: Diadem Hill (Annesley Park), Where Lord Byron Parted From
Mary Chaworth.]
NOTES.
_Note_ (1).--ON GENUINE AND SPURIOUS ISSUES OF "ENGLISH BARDS, AND
SCOTCH REVIEWERS."
Among the first who called attention to the "inextricable tangle" of the
several editions of _English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers_ was Mr.
Leicester Warren, better known as Lord de Tabley, who communicated some
notes in 1877 to _Notes and Queries_ (Series V. vol. vii. pp. 145,
etc.); but it was reserved to the late Mr. Dykes Campbell, Mr. Bertram
Dobell, and other correspondents to the _Athenæum_ (May 5 to July 7,
1894), to point out that the problem was still farther complicated by
the existence of spurious issues of at least three out of the five or
six distinct editions of the Satire.
All editions, genuine or spurious, claim as their publisher "James
Cawthorn, British Library, No. 24 Cockspur Street," but different
printers were employed. The First Edition bears the imprint of "T.
Collins, Printer, No. 1, Harvey's Buildings, Strand;" the Second
Edition, that of "Deans and Co. Hart Street, Covent Garden;" the Third
Edition, that of "T. Collins," etc.; the Fourth Edition of 1810, that of
"T. Collins," etc.; the Fourth Edition of 1811 ("James Cawthorn and
Sharpe and Hailes"), that of "Cox, Son, and Baylis, Great Queen Street,
London." No printer's name was attached to the suppressed Fifth Edition
of 1812.
Genuine First Editions have the water-mark, "E. and P. 1804," or "E. and
P. 1805," or, possibly, no water-mark at all. A copy of the spurious
First Edition, in Mr. Murray's possession, has the water-mark, "S. and
C. Wise, 1812." In addition to at least eleven variants in punctuation,
the spurious copy prints (p. 5, line 47) "Wizzard" (p. 20 _n_.),
"M_e_deira," and, in the same note, "Anna d'Afert;" whereas the genuine
copies print correctly "Wizard," "Madeira," and "Anna d'Arfet."
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