BYRON, George Gordon Noel. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth . London: John Murray 1818. 8 o . (P8 creased, advertisement leaf with loss at corner renewed.) Modern red morocco, covers with initial "B" blindstamped in corners, gilt-lettered on spine, edges gilt. FIRST EDITION, second issue, 2-page advertisement leaf at end. ONE OF FOUR COPIES KNOWN TO WISE WITH A VARIANT SETTING OF THE DEDICATION. This copies bears the points of the second issue: with the new paragraph on page 160 requiring the reimposition of six pages in signature L; p.217 has two footnotes only, p.218 has five footnotes; p.226 has an 8-line footnote; and the errata list is six lines. Wise describes the variant setting of the dedication: "In each of the five published issues of the First Edition of the Fourth Canto... the Dedication occupies pages iii-xiv. In this copy it occupies pages iii-xiii only. The text is identical with that of the published issues, but is compressed into a smaller compass. For the published issues it was re-spaced, and extended over to the fourteenth page. The sheet is an early, or proof, copy, preserved by chance. Evidentally whilst the Second Issue was in the hands of the binders the demand for the book was so pressing that, pending the delivery of the Third Issue of the printers, every available scrap that could be employed was made use of. But such casual preservation of a cancelled sheet does not constitute an 'issue', and the book is only an interesting variant. I have heard of, but have not seen, two other specimens of the book with the early or cancelled sheet, not in original boards, but rebound with trimmed edges. Both are in the hands of American collectors. Another copy, also rebound with trimmed edges, is owned in this country [Great Britain]" (Wise Byron I, p.67). No listing of this copy, nor any edition of the Fourth Canto, appears in Randolph's bibliography.
BYRON, George Gordon Noel. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth . London: John Murray 1818. 8 o . (P8 creased, advertisement leaf with loss at corner renewed.) Modern red morocco, covers with initial "B" blindstamped in corners, gilt-lettered on spine, edges gilt. FIRST EDITION, second issue, 2-page advertisement leaf at end. ONE OF FOUR COPIES KNOWN TO WISE WITH A VARIANT SETTING OF THE DEDICATION. This copies bears the points of the second issue: with the new paragraph on page 160 requiring the reimposition of six pages in signature L; p.217 has two footnotes only, p.218 has five footnotes; p.226 has an 8-line footnote; and the errata list is six lines. Wise describes the variant setting of the dedication: "In each of the five published issues of the First Edition of the Fourth Canto... the Dedication occupies pages iii-xiv. In this copy it occupies pages iii-xiii only. The text is identical with that of the published issues, but is compressed into a smaller compass. For the published issues it was re-spaced, and extended over to the fourteenth page. The sheet is an early, or proof, copy, preserved by chance. Evidentally whilst the Second Issue was in the hands of the binders the demand for the book was so pressing that, pending the delivery of the Third Issue of the printers, every available scrap that could be employed was made use of. But such casual preservation of a cancelled sheet does not constitute an 'issue', and the book is only an interesting variant. I have heard of, but have not seen, two other specimens of the book with the early or cancelled sheet, not in original boards, but rebound with trimmed edges. Both are in the hands of American collectors. Another copy, also rebound with trimmed edges, is owned in this country [Great Britain]" (Wise Byron I, p.67). No listing of this copy, nor any edition of the Fourth Canto, appears in Randolph's bibliography.
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