VII.

[Fifth Edition.] [8º.

[For Title-page, _vide supra_, Fourth Edition, 1811, No. vi. No special Title-page for a Fifth Edition was printed.]

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Text, pp. 1-83. [Signature B, p. [1]; C, p. 17; D, p. 33; E, p. 49; F, p. 65; G, p. 81.] There is no Imprint on pp. [1], 83, or on p. [84]. The Text numbers 1070 lines.

_Note_ (1).--The Half-title prefixed to the Title-page of the Fourth Edition of 1811, which precedes the Museum copy of the Fifth Edition, bears the MS. signature, "R.C. Dallas," and a blank leaf the following note: "This is one of the very few copies preserved of the suppressed edition, which would have been the Fifth. No Title-page was printed--the one prefixed was taken from the preceding edition."

_Note_ (2)--Mr. S. Leicester Warren (Lord de Tabley) records the following MS. notes inscribed in a copy of the Fifth Edition, which had formerly belonged to James Boswell, jun., and was then in the possession of Mr. J.R.P. Kirby, of Bloomsbury Street:--

A. A note on the abortive duel between Jeffrey and Moore is dated November 4, 1811.

B. A note on the fly-leaf in the handwriting of James Boswell, jun.--

"This copy purports on the title-page to be the fourth edition, but is in truth the fifth. Having pointed out to Murray, the bookseller, a variation between the copy of the fifth edition and this, he borrowed it from me, that he might show it to Lord Byron to have the circumstance explained; that his lordship told him he had printed the fifth edition, but, before its publication, having repented of the work altogether, he determined to destroy the whole impression. But the printer, as he observed, must have retained at least this one copy, and, by putting a false title-page, had sold it as the fourth edition," etc.--_Notes and Queries_, 1887, Series V. vol. vii. pp. 203, 204.

Mr. Murray's copy of the Fifth Edition contains, on the fly-leaves at the beginning of the volume, MS. versions of (1) _The Curse of Minerva_, pp. [i.]-[xi.]; (2) The Answer to Fitzgerald's Epigram, written at the "Alfred," on _English Bards, etc._, p. [xv.]; and on p. xvi. the following MS. Title-page:--

English Bards/ and Scotch Reviewers; a/ Satire/ By Lord Byron./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakspere./ Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd critics too./ Pope./ Fifth Edition,/ Unpublished; with considerable additions./ London:/ Printed for James Cawthorne,/ Cockspur Street./ 1812./

At the end of the volume a MS. version of "Lines on the Removing Lady Jersey's Portrait from the Gallery of Beauties," is on pp. [85], [86], and a MS. version of "On a Recent Discovery, 1813," on p. [89].

P. xiv. is headed by the following MS. note: "Lord Byron has two copies of this work, R.C. Dallas, Esq., has likewise two copies, and Mr. Leigh Hunt one."

_English Bards, etc.; a Satire_. 1st Amer. from 3rd London Ed. Philadelphia. 1811. [8º.

[Cat. of Boston Athenæum Library, 1874.]

_English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire_. By Lord Byron. Charleston: Moxford, Wellington & Co., 1811. [8º.

_English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers_. Boston. 1814. [12º.

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Pp. 72.