ABSTRACT
Byron, The Giaour, 6th edition (1813); Eclectic Review, X (Nov. 1813), 523–531. This review is mainly a tissue of quotations – a practice that John Foster criticized as not giving either the editor of the periodical or its readers their money’s worth. The last sentence in the review raises an interesting point: how many readers purchased more than one edition of The Giaour as it grew from a poem of 41 pages and 685 lines in its first published text (June 5, 1813) to 75 pages and 1334 lines in the seventh edition of late November or December?
