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The/ Poetical Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ In Two Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II.] From the last London Edition./ Philadelphia:/ Published by Moses Thomas,/ No. 52, Chesnut Street./ William Fry, Printer./ 1813./ [16º.

[A bound copy: smooth blue calf, lettered "LORD BYRON."]

_Collation_--

Vol. I.--Title, one leaf; Cont.; Half-title; Dedication; and Text, pp. _1_-203.

Vol. II--Title, one leaf; Cont.; Half-title; Preface, etc, pp. i.-xii.; Text, pp. _1_-261.

_Contents_--

Vol. I.:--Poems, Original and Translated p. 1 English Bards, etc. p. 137 Vol. II.:--Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I. p. 13 (xciii. stanzas)

## Canto II. (lxxxviii. stanzas) p. 9

Notes p. 99 Poems (xx.) p. 156 The Giaour (1215 lines) p. 205 Note p. 261

_Note_ (Vol. I.).--On fly-leaf: "To the Rt. Honourable Lord Byron from his obt. servant Geo Ticknor, June 20. 1815."

"This book was given to me by Lord Byron, April 20, 1816, on his leaving England. Scrope Davies."

[Greek: APO: IÔ:] [Greek: Keph. Th.]

[Greek: Kai\ e)n tai~s ê(me/rais e)kei/nais zêtê/sousin oi( a)/nthrôpoi to\n tha/naton kai\ ou)ch eu(rê/sousin au)to\n' kai\ e)pithymê/sousin a)pothanei~n, kai\ pheu/xetai o( tha/natos a)p' au)tô~n.]

On second fly-leaf: "Semper ego tui memoriam colam; semper tua imago ante oculos observabitur; semper idem mihi eras; qui idem semper eras bonis omnibus."

These volumes which were presented by George Ticknor to Lord Byron,[A] and, in turn, presented by him to Scrope Davies, passed into the hands of Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844), and are now in the possession of his grandson, Mr. F.B. Money-Coutts.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] "He [Byron] spoke to me of a copy of the American edition of his poems, which I had sent him, and expressed his satisfaction at seeing it in a small form, because in that way, he said, nobody would be prevented from purchasing it" ("Journal," June 21, 1815).--_Life, Letters, and Journals_ of George Ticknor, Boston, 1876, i. 62.