Collation—
Pp. 24.
Note.—It is probable that this edition, which closely resembles the later separate issues of the Corsair, the Bride of Abydos, and the Giaour, was printed in London.
III.
The/ Curse of Minerva./ A Poem./ By the Right Honourable/ Lord Byron./—— Pallas te hac [sic] vulnere, Pallas/ Immolat, et poenam scelerato ex sanguine sumit./ Third Edition./ Paris./ Published by Galignani/ at the French, English, Italian, German and Spanish/ Library, No. 18, Rue Vivienne./ 1818./ [12º.
Collation—
Half-title, one leaf, pp. 1, 2; Title, one leaf, pp. 3, 4; Text, pp. 5-[21]. The Imprint (Printed by A. Belin) is at the foot of P. [21].
Note (1).—A Fourth Edition, identical with the Third, was issued by Galignani in 1820. Quérard (1827) records the issue of a Second Edition, published by A. and W. Galignani in 1818.
Note (2).—The Curse of Minerva (full text) is included in the fifth volume of the edition of Byron's Works published by Louis and Baudry in 1825 (see W. [No. xviii.]); in the first volume of the Fifth Edition, in sixteen volumes, published by A. and W. Galignani in 1822 (see W. No. xix.), but was not published, in its entirety, in England till 1831 (see W. [No. xliii.]).
For a bibliographical note on The Curse of Minerva, first published as The Malediction of Minerva, or The Athenian Marble Market (111 lines), in the New Monthly Magazine, April, 1818, vol. iii. p. 240, and often reprinted in a mutilated form, see Poetical Works, 1898, i. 452.