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The/ Complete works/ of/ Lord Byron,/ Including/ his Lordship's Suppressed Poems,/ With others never before published./ In one Volume./ Paris./ Published by A. and W. Galignani,/ No. 18, Rue Vivienne./ 1831./ [8º.

_Collation_--

Pp. xxiv. + 730--Half-title (R. _Printed by J. Smith, Rue Montmorency, Paris_./); Title, one leaf; Cont., pp. i.-iv.; The Life of Lord Byron [abridged from the _Life_ by J.W. Lake] pp. v.-xxiv.; Text, pp. 1-730.

The Frontispiece, a portrait of Lord Byron, engr. by J.T. Wedgwood from a painting by W.E. West, in arabesque frame, rests on miniatures of Newstead Abbey and Missolunghi (_sic_) designed by F. Sieurac. The Title-vignette is tomb, harp, willows, etc. A lithograph of letter, April 27, 1819, to the Editor of _Galignani's Messenger_, is inserted between the _Life_ and the Text.

_Contents_--

This edition includes Hours of Idleness (Sec. Ed.), _English Bards_, etc., _The Curse of Minerva_, _The Waltz_, all poems published by John Murray before 1831, a selection of poems included in Moore's _Notices of the Life_, etc., poems published by John Hunt, Letter to ... on Bowles' Strictures on Pope, Fragment, Parliamentary Speeches, and the following spurious and additional poems:--

Madame Lavalette p. 699 Ode ("Oh, shame to thee," etc.) p. 705 _Carmina Byronis in C. Elgin_ p. 707 Ode to the Island of St. Helena ib. Enigma on the letter H p. 708 To Jessy ib. To my Daughter p. 709 Lines to Mr. Hobhouse p. 710 Lines found in the Travellers' book at Chamouni ib. Stanzas to her who can best understand them p. 712 In the Valley of Waters p. 713 Francesca ib. Faith, Wisdom, Love and Power ib. Thermopylæ p. 714 Song, "Do you know Dr. Nott?" p. 716 To Mr. Hobhouse, "What made you," etc. (20 lines) p. 717 Enigma on the letter I p. 720 To Memory ("Oh, memory," etc.) p. 721 To my dear Mary Anne ib. On an Old Lady ("In Nottingham," etc.) p. 722

_Note_.--Among the ATTRIBUTED POEMS are To the Lily of France, p. 729; The Triumph of the Whale, _ib._; To Lady C. Lamb, _ib._; Stanzas ("I heard thy fate," etc.), p. 730.