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Don"-Djuan" ia ostrov" pirata. Perev. D. Mina Moskva], 1881.
_The Liberal_.
The/ Liberal. / Verse and Prose From The/ South. / Volume the First. /
London, 1822:/ Printed by and for John Hunt,/ 22, Old Bond Street. / [8? .
_Collation_--
Vol. I. : pp. xii. + 3-399 + Cont. , p. [401] (R. "Errata," p. [402]). The
Imprint (_London_:/ _C. H. Reynell, Printer,/ 45, Broad-Street,
Golden-Square_. ) is at the foot of p. [402].
Vol. II. : [The/ Liberal,/ etc. / Volume The Second. / London, 1823:/
Printed for John Hunt,/ 22, Old Bond Street. /], pp. viii. + 1-377 +
Cont. of No. iv. , p. [379]. The Imprint (_London:/ Printed by C. H.
Reynell, Broad Street, Golden-Square_. ) is at the foot of p. [380].
_Contents_ [Lord Byron's contributions]--
Vol. I. : _The Liberal_, No. 1. The Vision of Judgment. By Quevedo
Redivivus. Suggested by the Composition so entitled by the Author of
"Wat Tyler. " "A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! I thank thee,
Jew, for teaching me that word. " Pp. 8-39; Letter to the Editor of "My
Grandmother's Review," pp. 41-50; Epigrams on Lord Castlereagh, p. 164.
_The Liberal_, No. II. Heaven and Earth, A Mystery, Founded on the
Following Passage in Genesis, Chap. vi. : "And it came to pass . . . that
the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they
took them wives of all which they chose. " "And woman wailing for her
demon lover. "--Coleridge. Part I. , etc. , pp. 165-206. From the French
("AEgle, beauty and poet," etc. ), p. 396; Martial. --Lib. I. Epig. I
(Translation), p. 398; New Duet ("Why how now, saucy Tom? "), _ibid. _
Vol. II. : _The Liberal_, No. III. _The Blues, A Literary Eclogue_,
"Nimium ne crede colori. "--VIRGIL. O trust not, ye beautiful creatures,
to hue, Though your _hair_ were as _red_ as your stockings are _blue_.
Eclogue the First, etc. , pp. 1-21.
_The Liberal_, No. IV. Morgante Maggiore di Messer Luigi Pulci, pp.
193-249.
_Note_. --The text of the original Italian is printed after the English
translation.
_Dedication of Don Juan_.
The following note was attached to the "Dedication" which was prefixed
to the First Canto in 1833 (_Works_, 1833, xv. 101):--
"Note(1). [This 'Dedication' was suppressed in 1819, with Lord Byron's
reluctant consent; but, shortly after his death, its existence became
notorious, in consequence of an article in the _Westminster Review_,
generally ascribed to Sir John Hobhouse, and for several years the
verses have been selling in the streets as a broadside. It could
therefore serve no purpose to exclude them on the present occasion. ]"
See, too, _Poetical Works_, 1903, vi. 3.
I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. H. Buxton Forman, C. B. , for the
following description of one of these "broadsides," now in his
possession:--
"Single sheet foolscap 8vo, consisting of Half-title, 'Dedication/
to/Don Juan,/' with Imprint on verso ('London:/ printed by C. and W.
Reynell, Broad Street,/ Golden Square'); Title-page, 'Dedication/ to/
Don Juan. / by/ Lord Byron. / London:/ Published by Effingham
Wilson,/Royal Exchange. / 1833. /' On the verso of this is a note--
"'[_Why the following Dedication did not appear with the two first
published Cantos of the Poem cannot be explained--unless the connection
between_ Mr. MURRAY _and_ Mr. SOUTHEY _sufficiently explains it_. ]'
"The first page of the Text (p. 5, but not numbered) contains the
dropped head 'Don Juan. / Dedication. ' and one stanza. Pp. 6-10 contain
two stanzas each, and p. 11 one. The headline 'Don Juan' runs from p. 6
to p. 11, and the stanzas are numbered in Roman capital figures. P. 12
is blank, and is followed by a Half-title, 'Notes,' with a blank verso.
The Notes occupy pp. 15 and 16, of which 15 is not numbered, but has a
dropped head, 'Notes. ' Page 16 is numbered, and has the headline
'Notes. '"
[Illustration: Diadem Hill (Annesley Park), Where Lord Byron Parted From
Mary Chaworth. ]
NOTES.
_Note_ (1). --ON GENUINE AND SPURIOUS ISSUES OF "ENGLISH BARDS, AND
SCOTCH REVIEWERS. "
Among the first who called attention to the "inextricable tangle" of the
several editions of _English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers_ was Mr.
Leicester Warren, better known as Lord de Tabley, who communicated some
notes in 1877 to _Notes and Queries_ (Series V. vol. vii. pp. 145,
etc. ); but it was reserved to the late Mr. Dykes Campbell, Mr. Bertram
Dobell, and other correspondents to the _Athenaeum_ (May 5 to July 7,
1894), to point out that the problem was still farther complicated by
the existence of spurious issues of at least three out of the five or
six distinct editions of the Satire.
All editions, genuine or spurious, claim as their publisher "James
Cawthorn, British Library, No. 24 Cockspur Street," but different
printers were employed. The First Edition bears the imprint of "T.
Collins, Printer, No. 1, Harvey's Buildings, Strand;" the Second
Edition, that of "Deans and Co. Hart Street, Covent Garden;" the Third
Edition, that of "T. Collins," etc. ; the Fourth Edition of 1810, that of
"T. Collins," etc. ; the Fourth Edition of 1811 ("James Cawthorn and
Sharpe and Hailes"), that of "Cox, Son, and Baylis, Great Queen Street,
London. " No printer's name was attached to the suppressed Fifth Edition
of 1812.
Genuine First Editions have the water-mark, "E. and P. 1804," or "E. and
P. 1805," or, possibly, no water-mark at all. A copy of the spurious
First Edition, in Mr. Murray's possession, has the water-mark, "S. and
C. Wise, 1812. " In addition to at least eleven variants in punctuation,
the spurious copy prints (p. 5, line 47) "Wizzard" (p. 20 _n_. ),
"M_e_deira," and, in the same note, "Anna d'Afert;" whereas the genuine
copies print correctly "Wizard," "Madeira," and "Anna d'Arfet.
"
A genuine copy of the Second Edition, which belonged to the late Mr.
Dykes Campbell, bears the water-mark "Budgen and Willmot, 1808. " On p.
80, line 1007, "Abedeen" is misprinted for "Aberdeen;" and the same
misprint occurs in a copy of the Second Edition in the British Museum.
In all probability there was no spurious issue of the Second Edition.
Of the Third Edition (1810), copies bearing the water-mark, "E. &P.
1804," or "G. &R. T. ," may be regarded as genuine--rare exceptions among a
host of forgeries which either lack a water-mark altogether or bear
water-marks of a later period. Mr. Gilbert R. Redgrave, in an article
(_The Library_, December 1, 1899, Series II. vol. i. pp. 18-25), notes
two distinct and divergent forgeries bearing the water-mark "Pine, and
Thomas, 1812. " Forgery A prints "myse" for "muse" (line 4), "rove" for
"rave" (line 384), etc. ; while forgery B, in a footnote to p. 30, prints
"Bowle'ss" for "Bowles's," and, at the end of p. 85, "we" for "me," and
"farther" for "further. " Other copies bear the water-marks, "Allnutt,
1816," "Smith & Allnutt, 1816," "Ivy Mills, 1817," and "I. &R. Ansell,
1818. " A copy of a spurious issue of the Third Edition in the British
Museum prints "crawl" for "scrawl" (line 47), and "p. 73" for "p. 85. "
It has been surmised, but conclusive proof is not forthcoming, that a
so-called Fourth Edition of 1810 (1050 lines), which purports to have
been published by James Cawthorn, and bears the imprint, "_Printed by J.
Collins, Harvey's Buildings, Strand, London_," is a spurious issue. It
is practically a reprint of the Third Edition; but in some copies there
are misprints not to be found in other piracies--_e. g. _ "crouds" for
"crowds" (line 269), and "alter" for "altar"(line 285).
Copies of the Fourth Edition of 1810, which may possibly be genuine,
bear a water-mark, "G. &R. T. ," or are on plain paper. Copies which are
manifestly forgeries bear the water-marks, "J. X. 1810" and "W.
Pickering, 1816. "
A second Fourth Edition (1052 lines), published by "James Cawthorn and
Sharp & Hailes, 1811," and printed by "Cox, Son, & Baylis," was
certainly recognized by Byron as a genuine Fourth Edition, and must have
passed through his hands, or been subject to his emendation, before it
was sent to press. Copies of this edition bear his MS. emendations of
1811-1812, and marginal notes of 1816. Genuine copies (_e. g. _ Leigh
Hunt's copy, now in the Forster Collection at the South Kensington
Museum) are printed on paper bearing a water-mark, "J. Whatman, 1805. "
There was, however, another issue of the Fourth Edition of 1811, printed
on plain paper. Mr. Redgrave notes certain minute differences between
these two issues. In the edition on plain paper there is a hyphen to
"Cockspur-Street" on the title-page, and the word "Street" is followed
by a comma instead of a semicolon. Again, in the plain-paper copies
"Lambe" is spelt with an _e_, and in the water-mark copies the word is
correctly spelt "Lamb. " In the plain-paper copies the misprint
"Postcript" for "Postscript" is repeated, and in the copies bearing a
water-mark the word is correctly spelt "Postscript. " There are other
differences in the advertisements at the end of the volume.
A spurious Fourth Edition in Mr. Murray's possession, which has been
enriched with a series of prints of persons and places, bears the
water-marks, "1811," "1814. " Each page has been inserted into a folio
sheet bearing the water-mark, "J. Whatman, 1816. " A full-sized octavo,
in small print (B. M. 11645 P. 15), which purports to be the Fourth
Edition of 1811, is probably spurious. It is the survival of a distinct
issue from other genuine or spurious copies of the Fourth Edition.
The spurious issues of the Third and Fourth Editions, whether they were
printed in Ireland or were secretly thrown upon the market by James
Cawthorn after Byron had definitely selected Murray as his publisher,
were designed for the general reader and not for the collector. The
issue of a spurious First Edition after the improved and enlarged
editions of 1809-11 were published, must have been designed for the
Byron enthusiast, if not the collector of First Editions.
The Grangerized Fourth Editions prepared by Mr. W. M. Tartt and Mr. Evans
in 1819, 1820, and a Third, by John Murray at about the same period,
and, more remarkable still, a copy of the Fourth Edition of 1811,
prefaced by a specially printed "List of Names mentioned in the _English
Bards, and Scotch Reviewers_" interleaved with the additions made in the
Fifth Edition (B. M. ), point to the existence of a circle of worshippers
who were prepared to treat Byron's _Juvenilia_ as seriously as the
minute critics of the present generation. They seem to have been
sufficiently numerous to make piracy, if not forgery, profitable.
_Note_ (2). --CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE FIRST EDITION AS NUMBERED AND
THE PRESENT ISSUE AS NUMBERED.
First Edition (696 lines). Fifth (Present) Edition
(1070 lines).
1-26 = 103-128
27-246 = 143-362
247-262 in Edition 2. = Hobhouse's lines, omitted
263-372 = 418-528
373-470 = 540-637
471-522 = 707-758
523-526 = 761-764
527-586 = 799-858
587-654 = 881-948
655-667 = 961-972
668-696 = 981-1010
Second, Third, Fourth (a) Fifth (Present) Edition
Editions (1050 lines). (1070 lines).
1-96 = 1-96
97-521 = 103-527
522-740 = 540-758
741-1050 = 761-1070
Fourth (b) Edition (1052 Fifth (Present) Edition
lines). (1070 lines).
1-96 = 1-96
97-521 = 103-528
522-1052 = 540-1070
_Additions in the Second, Third, and Fourth (a) Editions_.
[The lines are numbered as in the Second, Third, and Fourth Editions. ]
1-96 Still must I hear . . . as you read. 96
123-136 Thus saith the Preacher . . . to grovelling Stott. 14
357-411 But if some new-born whim . . . lumbering back again. 55
620-688 Or, hail at once . . . virtue must apply. 69
745-778 When some brisk youth . . . thy pay for coats. 34
839-860 And here let Shee . . . and God-like men. 22
929-940 Yet what avails . . . blazes, and expires. 12
953-960 There Clarke, still . . . libel on mankind. 8
991-1050 Then, hapless Britain, . . . unjustly, none declare 60
----
370
696-16 (Hobhouse's lines) = 680 + 370 = 1050.
_Addition in Fourth Edition_ (1811).
741-742 Through Crusca's bards . . . columns still. 2
1050 + 2 = 1052.
_Additions in the Fifth (Present) Edition_.
97-102 'But hold! ' exclaims . . . shine with Pye. 6
528-539 Then, prosper, Jeffrey . . . inspires thy pen. 12
---
18
1052 + 18 = 1070.
_Emendations of the Text of the Fourth Edition (b) included in the text
of the Fifth and Present Editions_.
Fourth Fifth
Edition. Edition.
Line. Line.
28 _And men through life her willing slaves obey_.
Obeyed by all who nought beside obey. 28
30 _Unfolds her motley store to suit the time_.
Bedecks her cap with bells of every clime. 30
32 _When Justice halts, and Right begins to fail_.
And weigh their Justice in a golden scale. 32
71 _Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit_.
Fear not to lie,'twill seem a _sharper_ hit. 71
173 _Low may they sink to merited contempt_,
174 _And scorn remunerate the mean attempt_.
Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain! 179
And sadly gaze on Gold they cannot gain. 180
257 _How well the subject suits his noble mind_!
258 _"A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind_. "
So well the subject suits his noble mind, 263
He brays, the Laureate of the long-eared kind. 264
303 _In many marble-covered volumes view_
304 _Hayley, in vain attempting something new_:
305 _Whether he spin his comedies in rhyme_,
306 _Or scrawl, as Wood and Barclay walk, 'gainst time_.
Behold--Ye Tarts! --one moment spare the text! 309
HAYLEY'S last work, and worst--until his next; 310
Whether he spin poor couplets into plays, 311
Or damn the dead with purgatorial praise. 312
323 _And shows, dissolved in thine own melting tears_.
And shows, still whimpering thro' threescore of years. 329
327 _Whether in sighing winds thou seek'st relief_
328 _Or consolation in a yellow leaf_.
Whether thou sing'st with equal ease and grief, 333
The fall of empires or a yellow leaf. 334
385 _Fresh fish from Helicon! Who'll buy! Who'll buy_?
Fresh fish from Hippocrene! who'll buy? who'll buy? 391
387 _Too much in turtle Bristol's sons delight_,
388 _Too much o'er bowls of Rack prolong the night_.
Your turtle-feeder's verse must needs be flat, 393
Though Bristol bloat him with the verdant fat. 394
502 _First in the ranks illustrious shall be seen_.
First in the oat-fed phalanx shall be seen. 508
511 _As he himself was damned, shall try to damn_.
Damned like the Devil--Devil-like will damn. 517
532 _And grateful to the founder of the feast_,
533 _Declare his landlord can translate, at least_,
And, grateful for the dainties on his plate, 550
Declare his landlord can at least translate. 551
552 _While Kenny's World just suffered to proceed_,
553 _Proclaims the audience very kind indeed_.
While KENNY's "World"--ah! where is KENNY's wit? -- 570
Tires the sad gallery, lulls the listless Pit. 571
563 _Let Comedy resume her throne again_.
Let Comedy assume her throne again. 581
569 _Where_ GARRICK _trod, and_ KEMBLE _lives to tread_.
Where GARRICK trod, and SIDDONS lives to tread 587
614 _Raise not your scythe, Suppressors of our Vice_.
Whet not your scythe, Suppressors of our Vice. 632
625 _The Arbiter of pleasure and of play_.
Our arbiter of pleasure and of play. 643
661 _And, kinder still, a_ PAGET _for your wife_.
And, kinder still, two PAGETS for your wife. 679
728 _Want your defence, let Pity be your screen_.
Want is your plea, let Pity be your screen. 746
742 _Some stragglers skirmish round their columns still_.
Some stragglers skirmish round the columns still. 760
815 _The spoiler came; and all thy promise fair_
816 _Has sought the grave, to sleep for ever there_.
The Spoiler swept that soaring Lyre away, 834
Which else had sounded an immortal lay. 835
891 _The native genius with their feeling given_.
The native genius with their being given. 909
903 _Let MOORE be lewd; let STRANGFORD steal from Moore_.
Let MOORE still sigh; let STRANGFORD steal from MOORE.
Don"-Djuan" ia ostrov" pirata. Perev. D. Mina Moskva], 1881.
_The Liberal_.
The/ Liberal. / Verse and Prose From The/ South. / Volume the First. /
London, 1822:/ Printed by and for John Hunt,/ 22, Old Bond Street. / [8? .
_Collation_--
Vol. I. : pp. xii. + 3-399 + Cont. , p. [401] (R. "Errata," p. [402]). The
Imprint (_London_:/ _C. H. Reynell, Printer,/ 45, Broad-Street,
Golden-Square_. ) is at the foot of p. [402].
Vol. II. : [The/ Liberal,/ etc. / Volume The Second. / London, 1823:/
Printed for John Hunt,/ 22, Old Bond Street. /], pp. viii. + 1-377 +
Cont. of No. iv. , p. [379]. The Imprint (_London:/ Printed by C. H.
Reynell, Broad Street, Golden-Square_. ) is at the foot of p. [380].
_Contents_ [Lord Byron's contributions]--
Vol. I. : _The Liberal_, No. 1. The Vision of Judgment. By Quevedo
Redivivus. Suggested by the Composition so entitled by the Author of
"Wat Tyler. " "A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! I thank thee,
Jew, for teaching me that word. " Pp. 8-39; Letter to the Editor of "My
Grandmother's Review," pp. 41-50; Epigrams on Lord Castlereagh, p. 164.
_The Liberal_, No. II. Heaven and Earth, A Mystery, Founded on the
Following Passage in Genesis, Chap. vi. : "And it came to pass . . . that
the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they
took them wives of all which they chose. " "And woman wailing for her
demon lover. "--Coleridge. Part I. , etc. , pp. 165-206. From the French
("AEgle, beauty and poet," etc. ), p. 396; Martial. --Lib. I. Epig. I
(Translation), p. 398; New Duet ("Why how now, saucy Tom? "), _ibid. _
Vol. II. : _The Liberal_, No. III. _The Blues, A Literary Eclogue_,
"Nimium ne crede colori. "--VIRGIL. O trust not, ye beautiful creatures,
to hue, Though your _hair_ were as _red_ as your stockings are _blue_.
Eclogue the First, etc. , pp. 1-21.
_The Liberal_, No. IV. Morgante Maggiore di Messer Luigi Pulci, pp.
193-249.
_Note_. --The text of the original Italian is printed after the English
translation.
_Dedication of Don Juan_.
The following note was attached to the "Dedication" which was prefixed
to the First Canto in 1833 (_Works_, 1833, xv. 101):--
"Note(1). [This 'Dedication' was suppressed in 1819, with Lord Byron's
reluctant consent; but, shortly after his death, its existence became
notorious, in consequence of an article in the _Westminster Review_,
generally ascribed to Sir John Hobhouse, and for several years the
verses have been selling in the streets as a broadside. It could
therefore serve no purpose to exclude them on the present occasion. ]"
See, too, _Poetical Works_, 1903, vi. 3.
I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. H. Buxton Forman, C. B. , for the
following description of one of these "broadsides," now in his
possession:--
"Single sheet foolscap 8vo, consisting of Half-title, 'Dedication/
to/Don Juan,/' with Imprint on verso ('London:/ printed by C. and W.
Reynell, Broad Street,/ Golden Square'); Title-page, 'Dedication/ to/
Don Juan. / by/ Lord Byron. / London:/ Published by Effingham
Wilson,/Royal Exchange. / 1833. /' On the verso of this is a note--
"'[_Why the following Dedication did not appear with the two first
published Cantos of the Poem cannot be explained--unless the connection
between_ Mr. MURRAY _and_ Mr. SOUTHEY _sufficiently explains it_. ]'
"The first page of the Text (p. 5, but not numbered) contains the
dropped head 'Don Juan. / Dedication. ' and one stanza. Pp. 6-10 contain
two stanzas each, and p. 11 one. The headline 'Don Juan' runs from p. 6
to p. 11, and the stanzas are numbered in Roman capital figures. P. 12
is blank, and is followed by a Half-title, 'Notes,' with a blank verso.
The Notes occupy pp. 15 and 16, of which 15 is not numbered, but has a
dropped head, 'Notes. ' Page 16 is numbered, and has the headline
'Notes. '"
[Illustration: Diadem Hill (Annesley Park), Where Lord Byron Parted From
Mary Chaworth. ]
NOTES.
_Note_ (1). --ON GENUINE AND SPURIOUS ISSUES OF "ENGLISH BARDS, AND
SCOTCH REVIEWERS. "
Among the first who called attention to the "inextricable tangle" of the
several editions of _English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers_ was Mr.
Leicester Warren, better known as Lord de Tabley, who communicated some
notes in 1877 to _Notes and Queries_ (Series V. vol. vii. pp. 145,
etc. ); but it was reserved to the late Mr. Dykes Campbell, Mr. Bertram
Dobell, and other correspondents to the _Athenaeum_ (May 5 to July 7,
1894), to point out that the problem was still farther complicated by
the existence of spurious issues of at least three out of the five or
six distinct editions of the Satire.
All editions, genuine or spurious, claim as their publisher "James
Cawthorn, British Library, No. 24 Cockspur Street," but different
printers were employed. The First Edition bears the imprint of "T.
Collins, Printer, No. 1, Harvey's Buildings, Strand;" the Second
Edition, that of "Deans and Co. Hart Street, Covent Garden;" the Third
Edition, that of "T. Collins," etc. ; the Fourth Edition of 1810, that of
"T. Collins," etc. ; the Fourth Edition of 1811 ("James Cawthorn and
Sharpe and Hailes"), that of "Cox, Son, and Baylis, Great Queen Street,
London. " No printer's name was attached to the suppressed Fifth Edition
of 1812.
Genuine First Editions have the water-mark, "E. and P. 1804," or "E. and
P. 1805," or, possibly, no water-mark at all. A copy of the spurious
First Edition, in Mr. Murray's possession, has the water-mark, "S. and
C. Wise, 1812. " In addition to at least eleven variants in punctuation,
the spurious copy prints (p. 5, line 47) "Wizzard" (p. 20 _n_. ),
"M_e_deira," and, in the same note, "Anna d'Afert;" whereas the genuine
copies print correctly "Wizard," "Madeira," and "Anna d'Arfet.
"
A genuine copy of the Second Edition, which belonged to the late Mr.
Dykes Campbell, bears the water-mark "Budgen and Willmot, 1808. " On p.
80, line 1007, "Abedeen" is misprinted for "Aberdeen;" and the same
misprint occurs in a copy of the Second Edition in the British Museum.
In all probability there was no spurious issue of the Second Edition.
Of the Third Edition (1810), copies bearing the water-mark, "E. &P.
1804," or "G. &R. T. ," may be regarded as genuine--rare exceptions among a
host of forgeries which either lack a water-mark altogether or bear
water-marks of a later period. Mr. Gilbert R. Redgrave, in an article
(_The Library_, December 1, 1899, Series II. vol. i. pp. 18-25), notes
two distinct and divergent forgeries bearing the water-mark "Pine, and
Thomas, 1812. " Forgery A prints "myse" for "muse" (line 4), "rove" for
"rave" (line 384), etc. ; while forgery B, in a footnote to p. 30, prints
"Bowle'ss" for "Bowles's," and, at the end of p. 85, "we" for "me," and
"farther" for "further. " Other copies bear the water-marks, "Allnutt,
1816," "Smith & Allnutt, 1816," "Ivy Mills, 1817," and "I. &R. Ansell,
1818. " A copy of a spurious issue of the Third Edition in the British
Museum prints "crawl" for "scrawl" (line 47), and "p. 73" for "p. 85. "
It has been surmised, but conclusive proof is not forthcoming, that a
so-called Fourth Edition of 1810 (1050 lines), which purports to have
been published by James Cawthorn, and bears the imprint, "_Printed by J.
Collins, Harvey's Buildings, Strand, London_," is a spurious issue. It
is practically a reprint of the Third Edition; but in some copies there
are misprints not to be found in other piracies--_e. g. _ "crouds" for
"crowds" (line 269), and "alter" for "altar"(line 285).
Copies of the Fourth Edition of 1810, which may possibly be genuine,
bear a water-mark, "G. &R. T. ," or are on plain paper. Copies which are
manifestly forgeries bear the water-marks, "J. X. 1810" and "W.
Pickering, 1816. "
A second Fourth Edition (1052 lines), published by "James Cawthorn and
Sharp & Hailes, 1811," and printed by "Cox, Son, & Baylis," was
certainly recognized by Byron as a genuine Fourth Edition, and must have
passed through his hands, or been subject to his emendation, before it
was sent to press. Copies of this edition bear his MS. emendations of
1811-1812, and marginal notes of 1816. Genuine copies (_e. g. _ Leigh
Hunt's copy, now in the Forster Collection at the South Kensington
Museum) are printed on paper bearing a water-mark, "J. Whatman, 1805. "
There was, however, another issue of the Fourth Edition of 1811, printed
on plain paper. Mr. Redgrave notes certain minute differences between
these two issues. In the edition on plain paper there is a hyphen to
"Cockspur-Street" on the title-page, and the word "Street" is followed
by a comma instead of a semicolon. Again, in the plain-paper copies
"Lambe" is spelt with an _e_, and in the water-mark copies the word is
correctly spelt "Lamb. " In the plain-paper copies the misprint
"Postcript" for "Postscript" is repeated, and in the copies bearing a
water-mark the word is correctly spelt "Postscript. " There are other
differences in the advertisements at the end of the volume.
A spurious Fourth Edition in Mr. Murray's possession, which has been
enriched with a series of prints of persons and places, bears the
water-marks, "1811," "1814. " Each page has been inserted into a folio
sheet bearing the water-mark, "J. Whatman, 1816. " A full-sized octavo,
in small print (B. M. 11645 P. 15), which purports to be the Fourth
Edition of 1811, is probably spurious. It is the survival of a distinct
issue from other genuine or spurious copies of the Fourth Edition.
The spurious issues of the Third and Fourth Editions, whether they were
printed in Ireland or were secretly thrown upon the market by James
Cawthorn after Byron had definitely selected Murray as his publisher,
were designed for the general reader and not for the collector. The
issue of a spurious First Edition after the improved and enlarged
editions of 1809-11 were published, must have been designed for the
Byron enthusiast, if not the collector of First Editions.
The Grangerized Fourth Editions prepared by Mr. W. M. Tartt and Mr. Evans
in 1819, 1820, and a Third, by John Murray at about the same period,
and, more remarkable still, a copy of the Fourth Edition of 1811,
prefaced by a specially printed "List of Names mentioned in the _English
Bards, and Scotch Reviewers_" interleaved with the additions made in the
Fifth Edition (B. M. ), point to the existence of a circle of worshippers
who were prepared to treat Byron's _Juvenilia_ as seriously as the
minute critics of the present generation. They seem to have been
sufficiently numerous to make piracy, if not forgery, profitable.
_Note_ (2). --CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE FIRST EDITION AS NUMBERED AND
THE PRESENT ISSUE AS NUMBERED.
First Edition (696 lines). Fifth (Present) Edition
(1070 lines).
1-26 = 103-128
27-246 = 143-362
247-262 in Edition 2. = Hobhouse's lines, omitted
263-372 = 418-528
373-470 = 540-637
471-522 = 707-758
523-526 = 761-764
527-586 = 799-858
587-654 = 881-948
655-667 = 961-972
668-696 = 981-1010
Second, Third, Fourth (a) Fifth (Present) Edition
Editions (1050 lines). (1070 lines).
1-96 = 1-96
97-521 = 103-527
522-740 = 540-758
741-1050 = 761-1070
Fourth (b) Edition (1052 Fifth (Present) Edition
lines). (1070 lines).
1-96 = 1-96
97-521 = 103-528
522-1052 = 540-1070
_Additions in the Second, Third, and Fourth (a) Editions_.
[The lines are numbered as in the Second, Third, and Fourth Editions. ]
1-96 Still must I hear . . . as you read. 96
123-136 Thus saith the Preacher . . . to grovelling Stott. 14
357-411 But if some new-born whim . . . lumbering back again. 55
620-688 Or, hail at once . . . virtue must apply. 69
745-778 When some brisk youth . . . thy pay for coats. 34
839-860 And here let Shee . . . and God-like men. 22
929-940 Yet what avails . . . blazes, and expires. 12
953-960 There Clarke, still . . . libel on mankind. 8
991-1050 Then, hapless Britain, . . . unjustly, none declare 60
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370
696-16 (Hobhouse's lines) = 680 + 370 = 1050.
_Addition in Fourth Edition_ (1811).
741-742 Through Crusca's bards . . . columns still. 2
1050 + 2 = 1052.
_Additions in the Fifth (Present) Edition_.
97-102 'But hold! ' exclaims . . . shine with Pye. 6
528-539 Then, prosper, Jeffrey . . . inspires thy pen. 12
---
18
1052 + 18 = 1070.
_Emendations of the Text of the Fourth Edition (b) included in the text
of the Fifth and Present Editions_.
Fourth Fifth
Edition. Edition.
Line. Line.
28 _And men through life her willing slaves obey_.
Obeyed by all who nought beside obey. 28
30 _Unfolds her motley store to suit the time_.
Bedecks her cap with bells of every clime. 30
32 _When Justice halts, and Right begins to fail_.
And weigh their Justice in a golden scale. 32
71 _Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit_.
Fear not to lie,'twill seem a _sharper_ hit. 71
173 _Low may they sink to merited contempt_,
174 _And scorn remunerate the mean attempt_.
Still for stern Mammon may they toil in vain! 179
And sadly gaze on Gold they cannot gain. 180
257 _How well the subject suits his noble mind_!
258 _"A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind_. "
So well the subject suits his noble mind, 263
He brays, the Laureate of the long-eared kind. 264
303 _In many marble-covered volumes view_
304 _Hayley, in vain attempting something new_:
305 _Whether he spin his comedies in rhyme_,
306 _Or scrawl, as Wood and Barclay walk, 'gainst time_.
Behold--Ye Tarts! --one moment spare the text! 309
HAYLEY'S last work, and worst--until his next; 310
Whether he spin poor couplets into plays, 311
Or damn the dead with purgatorial praise. 312
323 _And shows, dissolved in thine own melting tears_.
And shows, still whimpering thro' threescore of years. 329
327 _Whether in sighing winds thou seek'st relief_
328 _Or consolation in a yellow leaf_.
Whether thou sing'st with equal ease and grief, 333
The fall of empires or a yellow leaf. 334
385 _Fresh fish from Helicon! Who'll buy! Who'll buy_?
Fresh fish from Hippocrene! who'll buy? who'll buy? 391
387 _Too much in turtle Bristol's sons delight_,
388 _Too much o'er bowls of Rack prolong the night_.
Your turtle-feeder's verse must needs be flat, 393
Though Bristol bloat him with the verdant fat. 394
502 _First in the ranks illustrious shall be seen_.
First in the oat-fed phalanx shall be seen. 508
511 _As he himself was damned, shall try to damn_.
Damned like the Devil--Devil-like will damn. 517
532 _And grateful to the founder of the feast_,
533 _Declare his landlord can translate, at least_,
And, grateful for the dainties on his plate, 550
Declare his landlord can at least translate. 551
552 _While Kenny's World just suffered to proceed_,
553 _Proclaims the audience very kind indeed_.
While KENNY's "World"--ah! where is KENNY's wit? -- 570
Tires the sad gallery, lulls the listless Pit. 571
563 _Let Comedy resume her throne again_.
Let Comedy assume her throne again. 581
569 _Where_ GARRICK _trod, and_ KEMBLE _lives to tread_.
Where GARRICK trod, and SIDDONS lives to tread 587
614 _Raise not your scythe, Suppressors of our Vice_.
Whet not your scythe, Suppressors of our Vice. 632
625 _The Arbiter of pleasure and of play_.
Our arbiter of pleasure and of play. 643
661 _And, kinder still, a_ PAGET _for your wife_.
And, kinder still, two PAGETS for your wife. 679
728 _Want your defence, let Pity be your screen_.
Want is your plea, let Pity be your screen. 746
742 _Some stragglers skirmish round their columns still_.
Some stragglers skirmish round the columns still. 760
815 _The spoiler came; and all thy promise fair_
816 _Has sought the grave, to sleep for ever there_.
The Spoiler swept that soaring Lyre away, 834
Which else had sounded an immortal lay. 835
891 _The native genius with their feeling given_.
The native genius with their being given. 909
903 _Let MOORE be lewd; let STRANGFORD steal from Moore_.
Let MOORE still sigh; let STRANGFORD steal from MOORE.
