ADVERTISEMENT. THE reader of the Illustrations is requested to bear in mind the object with which they were originally written, and not to expect to find in them a plan or order which can be discovered only with reference to the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold. They follow the progress of the Pilgrim, and were, indeed, as well as the notes now appended to the Canto, for the most part written whilst the noble author was yet employed in the composition of his poem. They were, with the exception of the three or four last articles, put into the hands of Lord Byron, much in the state in which they now appear; and the partiality of friendship assigned to them |
