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Proofs and printed editions of poems by or relating to Lord Byron, 1811-1818, undated.

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Identifier: MS.43390

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.

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Extent

43 Leaves

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

i + 42 folios.

Repository Details

Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository

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