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The/ Works of Lord Byron;/ In Verse and Prose./ Including/ His Letters, Journals, etc./ With/ A Sketch of His Life./ Hartford:/ Published by Silas Andrus and Son./ 1847./ [8º.

_Collation_--

Pp. xxviii. + 319 + 627--Illustrated Title as above (_n.d._), pp. iii., iv.; Title (R. Publishers' Advt, New York, Jan. 1834), pp. v., vi.; Cont. pp. vii.--xiv.; _The Life of Lord Byron_ [By Fitz Green Halleck], pp. xv.-xxviii.; Text (i.) _Letters_ (635), Extracts from a Journal, and Prose Pieces, pp. 1-319; Text (ii.) _Poems_, etc., pp. 1-627.

The Front., "Lady Noel Byron," is engr. by A. Dick from a painting by W.J. Newton. The vignette or illust. title is Lord Byron, engr. by A. Dick from a painting by W.E. West. To face p. 1 of the _Poems_ is "Diodati," engr. by M. Osborne from a sketch by W. Purser; to face p. 156, "_Mazeppa_," engr. by Illman and Pilbrow from a painting by H. Verner; facsimiles of Lord Byron's handwriting face pp. 25, 384.

The volume was issued in roan binding, with portrait of Byron stamped in gold on the covers.

Among "Poems not included in any Collection of Lord Byron's Works until after his Death," pp. 467-488, are the following pieces not included in the London editions of 1831, 1832, and of 1833.

To my dear Mary Anne p. 472 To Miss Chaworth ("Oh, memory," etc.) ib. To Lady Caroline Lamb p. 480 "In the Valley of Waters," etc. p. 482 Stanzas to her who can best understand them p. 486