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III.

The/ Curse of Minerva./ A Poem./ By the Right Honourable/ Lord Byron./---- Pallas te hac [_sic_] vulnere, Pallas/ Immolat, et poenam scelerato ex sanguine sumit./ Third Edition./ Paris./ Published by Galignani/ at the French, English, Italian, German and Spanish/ Library, No. 18, Rue Vivienne./ 1818./ [12º.

_Collation_--

Half-title, one leaf, pp. 1, 2; Title, one leaf, pp. 3, 4; Text, pp. 5-[21]. The Imprint (_Printed by A. Belin_) is at the foot of P. [21].

_Note_ (1).--A Fourth Edition, identical with the Third, was issued by Galignani in 1820. Quérard (1827) records the issue of a Second Edition, published by A. and W. Galignani in 1818.

_Note_ (2).--_The Curse of Minerva_ (full text) is included in the fifth volume of the edition of Byron's Works published by Louis and Baudry in 1825 (see W. No. xviii.); in the first volume of the Fifth Edition, in sixteen volumes, published by A. and W. Galignani in 1822 (see W. No. xix.), but was not published, in its entirety, in England till 1831 (see W. No. xliii.).

For a bibliographical note on _The Curse of Minerva_, first published as _The Malediction of Minerva, or The Athenian Marble Market_ (111 lines), in the _New Monthly Magazine_, April, 1818, vol. iii. p. 240, and often reprinted in a mutilated form, see _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 452.

_The Deformed Transformed_.

The/ Deformed Transformed;/ A Drama. By the/ Right Hon. Lord Byron./ London, 1824:/ Printed for J. and H.L. Hunt,/ Bond Street, and Tavistock Street./ [8º.

_Collation_--

Half-title (R. _London:/ Printed by C.H. Reynell, Broad Street, Golden Square./_), pp. 1, 2; Title, pp. 3, 4; Author's Advt., p. 6; _Dramatis Personæ_, one leaf, pp. 7, 8; Text, pp. 9-88. The Imprint, as above, is at the foot of p. 88.

_Note_.--A Second and Third Editions, identical with the First, were issued in 1824.