English Bards/ and Scotch Reviewers; a/ Satire/ By Lord Byron./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakspere./ Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd critics too./ Pope./ Fifth Edition,/ Unpublished; with considerable additions./ London:/ Printed for James Cawthorne,/ Cockspur Street./ 1812./
At the end of the volume a MS. version of "Lines on the Removing Lady Jersey's Portrait from the Gallery of Beauties," is on pp. [85], [86], and a MS. version of "On a Recent Discovery, 1813," on p. [89].
P. xiv. is headed by the following MS. note: "Lord Byron has two copies of this work, R.C. Dallas, Esq., has likewise two copies, and Mr. Leigh Hunt one."
_English Bards, etc.; a Satire_. 1st Amer. from 3rd London Ed. Philadelphia. 1811. [8º.
_English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire_. By Lord Byron. Charleston: Moxford, Wellington & Co., 1811. [8º.
_English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers_. Boston. 1814. [12º.
English Bards/ And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ By Lord Byron./ From the last London Edition./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakspeare./ Such shameless bards we have; and yet 'tis true/ There are as mad, abandon'd critics too./ Pope./ New York:/ Published by A.T. Goodrich & Co., 124 Broad-/Way, Corner of Cedar-Street./ _I. Seymour, print._/ 1817;./ [12º.
Title, one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Preface to the Third Edition, pp. iii., iv.; Text, pp. 5-54.
_Note_.--The text numbers 1050 lines, but lacks the Postscript. The misprint "ingenious" for "ingenuous youth," in footnote (p. 7) to line 56, which belongs to the Fourth Edition of 1811, and was corrected by Byron for the Fifth Edition, occurs in this edition.
English Bards, And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ Ode to the Land of the Gaul.--Sketch/ From Private Life.--Windsor/ Poetics, Etc./ By/ The Right Honorable/ Lord Byron./ Second Edition./ Paris:/ Published by Galignani/ At the French, English, Italian, German, and Spanish/ Library, No. 18, Rue Vivienne./ 1818./ [12º.
Title, one leaf; Second Half-title, pp. 1, 2; Preface, pp. 3-5; Text, pp. 7-70; Postscript, pp. 71-73; Ode, etc., pp. 75-84.