vere purpureus_ are in Mr.
Murray's possession. At the end of July, and during the first half of
August, two or more issues of a third edition were set up in type. The
first issue amounted to 53 pages, containing 950 lines, was certainly
published in this form, and possibly a second issue of 56 pages,
containing 1004 lines, may have followed at a brief interval. A revise
of this second issue, dated August 13, is extant. In the last fortnight
of August a fourth edition of 58 pages, containing 1048 lines,
undoubtedly saw the light. Scarcely more than a few days can have
elapsed before a fifth edition of 66 pages, containing 1215 lines, was
ready to supplant the fourth edition. A sixth edition, a reproduction of
the fifth, may have appeared in October. A seventh edition of 75 pages,
containing 1334 lines, which presented the poem in its final shape, was
issued subsequently to November 27, 1813 (a seventh edition was
advertised in the _Morning Chronicle_, December 22, 1813), the date of
the last revise, or of an advance copy of the issue. The ninth, tenth,
eleventh, and twelfth editions belong to 1814, while a fourteenth
edition is known to have been issued in 1815. In that year and
henceforward the _Giaour_ was included in the various collected editions
of Byron's works. The subjoined table assigns to their several editions
the successive accretions in their order as now published:--

Lines. _Giaour_. Edition of----

1--6. _MS. First edition of 28 pages._

7--20. Second edition. [47 pages, 816 lines.] Approximate date,
June 24, 1813.

21--45. Third edition. [53 pages, 950 lines.] July 30, 1813.

46--102. Second edition.

103--167. Fifth edition. [66 pages, 1215 lines.] August 25, 1813.

168--199. _MS. First edition of 28 pages._

200--250. Third edition.

251--252. Seventh edition. [75 pages, 1334 lines.] November 27, 1813.

253--276. Third edition.

277--287. _MS. First edition of 28 pages._

288--351. Third edition. (Second issue?) August 11, 1813.
[56 pages, 1004,? 1014 lines.]

352--503. _MS. First edition of 28 pages._

504--518. Third edition.

519--619. _MS. First edition of 28 pages._

620--654. Second edition.

655--688. _MS. First edition of 28 pages._

689--722. Fourth edition. [58