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LII.

The/ Complete Works/ of/ Lord Byron/ From the last London Edition,/ Now first collected and arranged, and Illustrated/ With all the notes/ By Sir Walter Scott [and 24 others--five lines] To which is prefixed the Life of the Author/ By John Galt, Esq./ In one Volume./ Paris:/ Baudry's European Library,/ Rue Du Coq, near the Louvre./ A. and W. Galignani and Co., 18, Rue Vivienne./ Sold also by Amyot, Rue de la Paix; Truchy, Boulevard des Italiens; Theophile Barrois, Jun.,/ Rue Richelieu; at the Librairie des Etrangers, 55, Rue Neuve-Saint-Augustin;/ And by all the Principal Booksellers on the Continent./ 1837./ [8º.

_Collation_--

Pp. II + cxxii + 954--Half-title (R. _Printed by Casimir, 12, Rue de la Vieille-Monnaie_); Title, one leaf; Publisher's Advt., pp. 1-6; Contents, pp. 7-11; _The Life of Lord Byron_. By John Galt, Esq., pp. i.-cxxii.; Text, pp. 1-941; Index, pp. 943-954. The Imprint, as above, is at the foot of p. 954.

The Frontispiece, "Lord Byron at the age of 17" (_sic_), is engr. by Blanchard from the painting by G. Sanders. The Title-page is embellished with a vignette of a shipwreck.

Facsimiles of Lord Byron's Handwriting, etc. (as in No. li.), four pages (_n.p._), are inserted between the "Life," and the Text.

_Note_.--This volume "contains all the works of Lord Byron carefully reprinted from the [last eleven volumes of the] London edition published by Mr. Murray in 1833." The prose pieces published in Vol. VI. of the same edition are included. The additional poems printed in the Appendix of Vol. XVII., 1833, "occupy respectively their proper places."

Galt's _Life of Lord Byron_ was first published in 1830 as No. 1 of G.A. Gleig's "National Library."