Proofs and printed editions of poems by or relating to Lord Byron, 1811-1818, undated.
Scope and Contents
Part proofs of the first edition of ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’, by Lord Byron including title, preface, contents and errata of, with annotations, 1812: folio 1;
Part proofs ‘Don Juan’s Expostulation, with notes by a friend’, by Lord Byron, with an annotation in the hand of John Cam Hobhouse, undated: folios 2-3;
Part proofs of ‘Hints from Horace’ by Lord Byron, including title-page and half-title, with annotations, 1811: folios 4-7;
Part proofs of ‘Congiura di Marin falier Doge contro la Signoria Di Venezia’, by Lord Byron, with annotations, undated: folios 8-15;
Proof of ‘To Sir W. D.’, also known as ‘To A Youthful Friend’, by Lord Byron, with annotations in the hand of Byron, undated: folios 16-18;
Printed poem, ‘Lines on reading the last canto of Childe Harold’, by Melesina Trench, 1818 : folios ff.19-22.
Printed sheets of ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto II’, by Lord Byron and annotated by John Cam Hobhouse, undated, folios 23-26;
Printed sheets of ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto III’, by Lord Byron, undated folios 27-28;
Printed sheets , with annotations, of various poems of Lord Byron, 1813: folios 29-34 consisting of:
‘From the Portuguese’: folio 29r
‘Thou art not false, but thou art fickle’: folios 29v-30r
‘On being asked what was the “Origin of Love”’: folio 30v
‘The Chain I Gave; From the Turkish’: folio 31
‘Address spoken at the opening of Drury-Lane Theatre, Sunday, October
10th 1812’ : folios 32-33
‘The Curse of Minerva’: folio 34;
Printed sheets, with annotations, of ‘The Curse of Minerva’, by Lord Byron, undated: folios 35-42;
Unbound edition of the second edition of ‘Poems’, by Lord Byron, 1816: folios 35-42.
Dates
- Creation: 1811-1818, undated.
Creator
- Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (afterwards Noel, poet) (Person)
- Hobhouse, John Cam, Baron Broughton (politician) (Person)
- Trench, Melesina (Irish writer, née Chenevix, then St George) (Person)
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
43 Leaves
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
i + 42 folios.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
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