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III.

The/ Works/ of/ The Right Honorable/ Lord Byron./ In Four Volumes./ Vol. I./ [Vol. II., etc.] Childe Harold./ London:/ Printed for John Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1815./ [8º.

_Collation_--

Vol. I.: pp. xviii. + 218--Gen. Half-title, one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Title (_R.T. Davison, Lombard-Street,/ White-Friars, London_.), pp. iii., iv.; General Contents to the Four Volumes, pp. v.-x.*; Half-title (R. Motto--_Le Cosmopolite_), _n.p._; Prefaces, pp. xi.-xviii.; Cont. to Vol. I., one leaf, _n.p._; Text, pp. 1-218. The Imprint is at the foot of p. 218.

_Note_.--In the earlier copies of Vol. I. of this edition, the misplaced "Advertisement" to _The Giaour_ is on pp. i., ii., and pp. ix.*, x.*, giving Cont. of _Hebrew Melodies_, are not inserted.

Vol. II.: pp. 1-202--Gen. Half-title, one leaf; Title (R. Imprint); Cont. to Vol. II.; Half-title; Dedication; Text, pp. 1-202. The Imprint is in the centre of the last page, p. [204].

Vol. III.: pp. viii. + 9-228--Gen. Half-title, one leaf; Title (R. Imprint); Cont. to Vol. III.; Half-title, pp. i., ii.; Dedication to Thomas Moore, Esq., pp. iii.-viii.; Text, pp. 9-228. The Imprint is at the foot of p. 228.

Vol. IV.: pp. viii. [ix.*, x.*] + 203--Gen. Half-title, one leaf; Title (R. Imprint), pp. i.-iv.; Cont. to Vol. IV., pp. v.-x.*; Text, pp. 1-203.

_Contents_--

Vol. I.:--To Ianthe, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos I., II., p. 3 (N. App.)

Romaic Books and Authors, etc. p. 188

Vol. II.:--The Giaour (N.) p. 1

The Bride of Abydos, Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 103

Vol. III.:--The Corsair, Cantos I.-III. (N.) p. i.

Lara, Cantos I., II. (N.) p. 133

Vol. IV.:--Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (N.) p. 1

Poems (N.) [xxxvi., consisting of xxix. pub. in the Seventh Ed. p. 17 of _Childe Harold_, vi. pub. in the Second Ed. of the _Corsair_, and Verses on Sir P. Parker.]

Hebrew Melodies (24) p. 143

_Note_.--In later issues of Vol. III., 1815, the note on the "Pirates of Barrataria" is inserted and paginated 133*-137*.