The pages here are of poems contained in the first four publications of Lord Byron. They have been heavily annotated by Henry Buxton Forman.

Henry Buxton Forman was a well-known bibliographer and, it was later discovered, forger. He and John Murray [III] had agreed that he would work on a new edition of the works of Byron for Murray in the 1884. This never came to fruition, but the proofs here are the result of the start of that work and was sent to John Murray [IV] in 1896.

Pages of the text have been attached to a larger folio and then annotated and amended. The original pagination of the pages that have been attached do not always follow numerically. The original order has been maintained.

Most of the folios contain annotated pages of the various poems, except the following:

Preface to the first edition: folios 1-2;

Title page and ‘Introduction to Hours of Idleness’: folios 5-6;

Notes of Buxton Forman: folios 3-4, 7-14, 18;

Printed pages entitled ‘Article from the Edinburgh Review. January, 1808’: folios 90-93.