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
A genuine copy of the Second Edition, which belonged to the late Mr.
Dykes Campbell, bears the water-mark "Budgen and Willmot, 1808." On p.
80, line 1007, "Abedeen" is misprinted for "Aberdeen;" and the same
misprint occurs in a copy of the Second Edition in the British Museum.
In all probability there was no spurious issue of the Second Edition.
Of the Third Edition (1810), copies bearing the water-mark, "E.&P.
1804," or "G.&R.T.," may be regarded as genuine--rare exceptions among a
host of forgeries which either lack a water-mark altogether or bear
water-marks of a later period. Mr. Gilbert R. Redgrave, in an article
(_The Library_, December 1, 1899, Series II. vol. i. pp. 18-25), notes
two distinct and divergent forgeries bearing the water-mark "Pine, and
Thomas, 1812." Forgery A prints "myse" for "muse" (line 4), "rove" for
"rave" (line 384), etc.; while forgery B, in a footnote to p. 30, prints
"Bowle'ss" for "Bowles's," and, at the end of p. 85, "we" for "me," and
"farther" for "further." Other copies bear the water-marks, "Allnutt,
1816," "Smith & Allnutt, 1816," "Ivy Mills, 1817," and "I.&R. Ansell,
1818." A copy of a spurious issue of the Third Edition in the British
Museum prints "crawl" for "scrawl" (line 47), and "p. 73" for "p. 85."
It has been surmised, but conclusive proof is not forthcoming, that a
so-called Fourth Edition of 1810 (1050 lines), which purports to have
been published by James Cawthorn, and bears the imprint, "_Printed by J.
Collins, Harvey's Buildings, Strand, London_," is a spurious issue. It
is practically a reprint of the Third Edition; but in some copies there
are misprints not to be found in other piracies--_e.g._ "crouds" for
"crowds" (line 269), and "alter" for "altar"(line 285).
Copies of the Fourth Edition of 1810, which may possibly be genuine,
bear a water-mark, "G.&R.T.," or are on plain paper. Copies which are
manifestly forgeries bear the water-marks, "J.X. 1810" and "W.
Pickering, 1816."
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