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XLIX.

The/ Complete Works/ of Lord Byron,/ Reprinted from the last London Edition,/ with considerable additions, now first published;/ Containing/ Notes and Illustrations/ By/ Moore, Walter Scott, Campbell, Jeffrey, Egerton Brydges, Wilson, Hobhouse,/ Dallas, Hunt, Milman, Lockhart, Bowles, Heber, Medwin, Gamba, Croby, Ugo Foscolo, Ellis,/ Kennedy, Parry, Stanhope, Gait, Nathan, Lady Blessington, Mrs. Shelley, etc./ And/ A Complete Index;/ To which is prefixed/ A Life,/ By Henry Lytton Bulwer, Esq., M.P.,/ In one Volume./ Paris/ Published by A. and W. Galignani and Co./ 1835./ [8º.

_Collation_--

Pp. xxxiii. + 935--Half-title (R. _Printed by H. and A. Firmin Didot, rue Jacob, No. 24._), pp. i., ii.; Title, pp. iii., iv.; (Publisher's) Advt., pp. v., vi.; Cont. pp. vii.-x.; The Life of Lord Byron, pp. xi.-xxxiii.; Text pp. 1-908; Index, pp. 909-935.

The Frontispiece is a portrait of Lord Byron, engr. by J.T. Wedgwood from a painting by W.E. West. The portrait in arabesque frame rests on picture of Newstead Abbey and Missolunghi (_sic_), designed by F. Sieurac. There is a lithographed vignette of tomb, harp, wreath, etc., on the title-page, and a lithograph of the memorial tablet in the chancel of Hucknall Torkard. A facsimile of the letter dated Venice, April 27, 1819, precedes the text, and facsimiles of original MS. of "To D----," and of _Childe Harold_, Canto IV. stanza xcii., face pp. 3, 122.

_Miscellaneous Poems_--

On an Old Lady ("In Nottingham," etc.) p. 842 On Lord Elgin ("Noseless himself," etc.) p. 864 Stanzas to her who can best understand them p. 887 Epigram from Martial ("The Laureate's House," etc.) p. 888 To Mr. Hobhouse ("Would you get," etc.) ib. To Mr. Hobhouse ("What made you," etc.) ib. On Queen Caroline p. 901 Elegy on the Recovery of Lady ---- p. 903 Song, "Do you know Doctor Nott?" ib. To ---- ("But once I dared," etc.) p. 904 On Sam Rogers ("Nose and Chin," etc.) ib. On Lady Milbank's Dog Trim p. 905 Lines to Lady Holland ("Lady, accept," etc.) ib. Attributed Poems: To Jessy ("There is a mystic," etc.) p. 906 Lines found in the Travellers' Book at Chamouni ib. To Lady Caroline Lamb p. 907 To the Prince of W_h_ales ib. On the letter I p. 908 To my dear Mary Anne ib. Stanzas ("I heard thy fate," etc.) ib.

_Note_.--This edition includes the contents of "the last [edition] published in London in seventeen volumes," together with the poems published in the Appendix to the _Works of Lord Byron_ (1832-1833, xvii. 238-248), and the following pieces not recognized or collected by John Murray.

_The Complete Works_, etc. In Four Volumes. Paris, Baudry, Amyot, Truchy. 1835. [8º.

[Quérard, 1846.]

_Note_.--This edition was reissued in 1840.