The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry

by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron

Vols. I.-V.:—Notices of the Life of Lord Byron.
Vol. VI.:—The Life, etc., from February, 1823-April, 1824	p.1
App.: cont. two epistles from the Armenian, etc.	p. 269
Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose:
Review of Wordsworth's Poems, 1807	p. 293
Review of Gell's Geography of Ithaca, etc., 1811	p. 296
Parliamentary Speeches, etc.	p. 314
A Fragment. [The Vampyre.] 1816	p. 339
Letter to John Murray, Esq., etc.	p. 346
Observations upon "Observations," etc. [Now first published.]	p. 382
Vol. VII.:—Hours of Idleness: a Series of Poems, Original and Translated:
Dedication.	p. 1
Preface	p. 5
On the Death of a Young Lady (and 69 others)	p. 9
Article from the Edin. Rev.	p. 188
Occasional Pieces: written in 1807-8:
The Adieu (and 15 others)	p. 195
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers	p. 219
Occasional Pieces: written in 1808-1810:
Well, thou art happy (and 15 others)	p. 291
Vol. VIII.:—Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Preface to the First and Second Cantos	p. 3
To Ianthe	p. 9
Canto the First [Canto the Second, etc.]	p. 11
Dedication of Canto the Fourth	p. 189
Historical Notes to Canto the Fourth	p. 271
Vol. IX.:—Occasional Pieces: written in 1811-1813:
Lines written beneath a Picture (and 31 others)	p. 3
Hints from Horace	p. 47
The Curse of Minerva	p. 107
The Waltz	p. 123
The Giaour	p. 141
The Bride, etc.	p. 203
The Corsair (Dedication, etc.)	p. 257
Appendix: Remarks on the Romaic, etc.	p. 339
Vol. X.:—Ode to N.B.	p. 1
Lara (Cantos I., II. (N.))	p. 17
Hebrew Melodies: She walks in Beauty (and 22 others)	p. 75
The Siege, etc.	p. 99
Parisina	p. 149
Domestic Pieces:
Fare Thee Well (and five others)	p. 185
Monody, etc.	p. 211
The Prisoner of Chillon	p. 221
The Dream	p. 243d
Occasional Pieces: 1814-1816:
The Devil's Drive (and 28 others)	p. 257
Vol. XI.:—Manfred	p. 1
The Lament of Tasso	p. 77
Beppo	p. 95
Mazeppa	p. 143
Ode on Venice	p. 179
The Morgante Maggiore (Canto I.)	p. 187
The Prophecy of Dante (Cantos I.-IV.)	p. 259
Occasional Pieces:
Versicles (and 14 others)	p. 307
Vol. XII.:—Francesca of Rimini	p. 1
Stanzas to the Po	p. 13
Stanzas (Written on the Road, etc.)	p. 19
The Blues	p. 21
Marino Faliero (App.)	p. 43
The Vision of Judgment (App.)	p. 231
Occasional Pieces:
Stanzas ["Could Love for ever">[ (and 5 others)	p. 317
Vol. XIII.:—Heaven and Earth	p. 1
Sardanapalus	p. 55
The Two Foscari	p. 197
The Deformed Transformed	p. 301
Vol. XIV.:—Cain (App.)	p. 1
Werner	p. 113
The Age of Bronze	p. 263
The Island	p. 299
Stanzas: To a Hindoo Air	p. 357
Lines ("On this day," etc.)	p. 358
Vol. XV.:—Preface to Don Juan	p. 3
Testimonies of Authors	p. 5
Letter to the Editor of "My Grandmother's Review"	p. 41
Some Observations upon an article in Blackwood's Magazine (August, 1819. [Now first pub.])	p. 55
Fragment ("I would to heaven," etc.)	p. 100
Dedication to Robert Southey, Esq.	p. 101
Don Juan (Cantos I.-III.)	p. 109
Vol. XVI.:—Don Juan (Cantos IV., V., App.)	p. 1
Preface to Cantos VI., VII., VIII.	p. 127
Cantos VI.-X.	p. 133
Vol. XVII.:—Don Juan (Cantos XI.-XVI.)	p. 1
Appendix: Farewell to Malta (and nine additional occasional pieces)	p. 239
Concluding Page of Lord Byron's "Observations upon an Article," etc.	p. 247
Index	p. 249

Note (1).—The Title-pages of Vols. XIII., XIV., XV., XVI., issued in 1833, do not specify the total number of volumes. The Title-pages of Vol. I. issued in 1835, Vol. II. in 1833, and Vol. IX. in 1834, print the words, "In Seventeen Volumes." There were probably other variations. There is an illustrated Title-page ornamented with a Title-vignette (vide supra et ante) to each volume.

Note (2).—The editor of these volumes was John Wright (1770?-1844), the editor of Cobbett's Parliamentary History, and the ninth and tenth volumes of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1836), and of Sir Henry Cavendish's Debates of the House of Commons during the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain, etc., two vols. 1841-3.

XLVII.

The Complete Works, etc., including his suppressed poems and others never before published. In Four Volumes. Paris, Baudry. 1832. [8º.

[Katalog der Bucher, von Eduard Grisebach, 1894, p. 127.]

Note.—The Front. is "Lord Byron," from a portrait by Hopwood. Quérard, 1846, gives the names of the publishers of this edition as Baudry, Barrois, Amyot.

XLVIII.

The Works, etc., In Verse and Prose. Including his Letters, Journals, etc. With a sketch of his Life. New York: George Dearborn, Publisher. 1833. 4º. pp. xxviii., 203, 619. ["... The first complete edition of the Poetical and Prose Works of Lord Byron."—Publisher's Advt.]

Note.—The Catalogue of the Library of Congress, 1880, describes this or a Second Edition as consisting of two vols. in one, 8º.