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
_Note_.--This edition (printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square),
together with _Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, etc., by T. Moore_. 2
v. 1830. 4º. ("to which have been added the Letter to [John Murray] on
the Rev. W.L. Bowles' Strictures on the life and writings of Pope....
Second Edition, and a few other printed papers, also numerous views,
portraits, autograph letters," etc.) bound in 44 vols. with the gen.
Title (The/ Poetical Works,/ Letters and Journals,/ of/ Lord Byron:/
with/ Notices of His Life./ By/ Thomas Moore, Esq./ Vol. I. [Vol. II.]
London: 1844./), printed expressly for the purpose and prefixed to each
volume, which is known as the "Watts" Collection (B.M.C. 44, e-h), was
arranged by the late William Watts, Esq., Member of the Philharmonic
Society, who died at Jersey, December 28, 1859, aged 81. (See Kölbing's
_P. of Chillon_, 1896, pp. 90-92.)
LVII.
_The Works_, etc. Complete in Five Vols. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz.
1842. [8º.
[Kölbing.]
_Note_.--A Second Edition was issued in 1886.
LVIII.
_The Works_, etc. A New Edition. Edited by Thomas Moore, Esq. Complete
in four volumes. With Engravings. Philadelphia. Carey and Hart. 1843.
[Kölbing.]
LIX.
_The Complete Works_, etc.... A Life by Thomas Moore, Esq. In One
Volume. With a Portrait. Second Edition. Frankfort o. M. Published by
Joseph Baer.; 1846. [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xlviii. + 1004.
_Note_.--Another edition appeared in 1852 (_vide post_, No. lxv.).
[Kölbing.]
LX.
The/ Works of Lord Byron;/ In Verse and Prose./ Including/ His Letters,
Journals, etc./ With/ A Sketch of His Life./ Hartford:/ Published by
Silas Andrus and Son./ 1847./ [8º.
_Collation_--
Pp. xxviii. + 319 + 627--Illustrated Title as above (_n.d._), pp. iii.,
iv.; Title (R. Publishers' Advt, New York, Jan. 1834), pp. v., vi.;
Cont. pp. vii.--xiv.; _The Life of Lord Byron_ [By Fitz Green Halleck],
pp. xv.-xxviii.; Text (i.) _Letters_ (635), Extracts from a Journal,
and Prose Pieces, pp. 1-319; Text (ii.) _Poems_, etc., pp. 1-627.
The Front., "Lady Noel Byron," is engr. by A. Dick from a painting by
W.J. Newton. The vignette or illust. title is Lord Byron, engr. by A.
Dick from a painting by W.E. West. To face p. 1 of the _Poems_ is
"Diodati," engr. by M. Osborne from a sketch by W. Purser; to face p.
156, "_Mazeppa_," engr. by Illman and Pilbrow from a painting by H.
Verner; facsimiles of Lord Byron's handwriting face pp. 25, 384.
The volume was issued in roan binding, with portrait of Byron stamped in
gold on the covers.
Among "Poems not included in any Collection of Lord Byron's Works until
after his Death," pp. 467-488, are the following pieces not included in
the London editions of 1831, 1832, and of 1833.
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