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XXIII.

The/ Works/ of/ Lord Byron./ Vol. V./ Containing/ Hours of Idleness--Fugitive Pieces--English/ Bards and Scotch Reviewers--Waltz--/Miscellaneous Poems, etc./ London:/ Knight and Lacey, Paternoster-Row./ 1824./ [8º.

_Collation_--

Vol. V.: pp. xiii. + 154 + 9 + vi. + 57 + vii. + 61--Gen. Half-title; Title (R. _T.C. Hansard, Paternoster-Row Press_); Preface; Cont., pp. [i.]-xiii.; Second Half-title; Text, pp. 2-154, etc.

_Note_.--The Imprint (_T.C. Hansard/ Paternoster-Row_/) is at the foot of the last page (p. 62). Four pages (_n.p._) of publishers' list of Sherwood, Jones & Co., etc., dated London, June, 1824, are bound up with Vol. V.

Vol. VI.: pp. vi. + 308 + 2 pages (_n.p._)--Gen. Half-title; Title [The/ etc. In Seven Volumes./ Vol. VI./ London:/ Printed for John and Henry L. Hunt,/ Tavistock Street./ 1824./] (R. _London:/ Printed By C.H. Reynell, Broad-Street, Golden-Square_/); Second Half-title; Dedication; Preface, pp. i.-vi.; Dramatis Personæ, p. [viii.] (_B.A._); Text, pp. 9-308; Note to the Translation of the _Morgante Maggiore_, one leaf, pp. [309, 310].

Vol. VII.: pp. 1-286--Gen. Half-title; Title [The, etc./ Tavistock-Street./ 1825./], (R. Imprint as above); Text, pp. 1-286.

_Contents_--

Vol. V.:--Hours of Idleness p. 1 Review, etc. p. 1 English Bards, etc. p. i. Waltz [N] p. i. Ode ("Oh, shame to thee," etc.) p. 19 Adieu to Malta p. 23 Madame Lavalette p. 26 The Curse of Minerva (111 lines) p. 28 Farewell to England p. 35 To my Daughter, etc. p. 46 Ode to ... St. Helena p. 50 To the Lily of France p. 53 To Jessy p. 56 To T. Moore, Esq. ("My Boat," etc.) p. 58 Lines to Mr. Hobhouse p. 60 Enigma [H.] p. 61 Vol. VI.:--Werner p. i. Heaven and Earth p. 197 Transl. of Morgante Maggiore (Advt.) p. 259 Vol. VII.:--The Age of Bronze p. 1 The Island p. 37 Appendix (Extract from the Voyage of Capt. Bligh) p. 109 The Vision of Judgment p. 125 Appendix (Court of King's Bench, Thursday, January 15, 1824. p. 187 The King _v_. John Hunt) The Deformed Transformed p. 191

_Note_ (1).--In Vol. V. the pagination of the "Postscript" of _English Bards, etc._, pp. 45-47, is incorrect.

_Note_ (2).--In Vol. VII. (pp. 125, _sq_.) in the edition of the _Vision of Judgment_, issued after the verdict in the case of the King _v._ John Hunt, January 15, 1824, stanzas viii., ix. (lines 1, 2), xliii. (lines 1-6), xliv., xlv. (lines 1-6), xlvii. (lines 4, 8), are omitted in the text, but are quoted in the report of the trial.

_Note_ (3).--The following slip, headed "Notice to the Binder," is inserted between a fly-leaf and the general half-title of Vols. VI., VII.: "_In order that each purchaser of the two concluding volumes of Lord Byron's Works may be enabled with them to complete his particular set,--whatever edition he possesses, an extra Title-page is given with each--there being several editions in print, comprising the same marks in different numbers of volumes. In binding these two last volumes, therefore, the binder should be instructed which of the Title-pages to retain._" Four pages (_n.p._) consisting of General Half-title (_B.R._) and Title-page as above [In Eight volumes./ Vol. VII., Vol. VIII./] with Imprint as above, at foot of Reverse, are bound up with Vols. VI., VII. Volume VIII. was not issued.

_The Works_, etc. In Eight Volumes. London: John Murray, etc., 1825. [Small] 8º.