ADVERTISEMENT. IT has been thought desirable, in making up the first Eight Numbers of these Landscape and Portrait Illustrations of LORD BYRON into a Volume, to arrange them in a manner less desultory than was the unavoidable order of their publication, and to accompany the Plates with accounts of the subjects of the Engravings, from authors of eminence and from original sources. The First Volume is thus presented to the Public in a complete form; and the succeeding Eight Numbers of the Work will, upon their publication, be adapted in the same way, and form an elegant accession to the drawing-room table and to the library of illustrated works. VILLENEUVE. TITLE-VIGNETTE. Drawn by C. Stanfield, A.R.A. THE approach to the lake of Geneva from Italy, on the side of the canton of the Pays de Vaud, is one of striking beauty, which seldom fails to arrest the attention of the traveller. The lofty mountains that bound the northern shores of this extremity of the lake spring almost abruptly from the water's edge; the castle of Chillon appears in the extreme distance. Yet it was amidst these scenes, on the shores of the lake of Geneva, that Lord Byron, as he writes in his journal, September 18, 1816, " met an English party in a carriage; a lady in it fast asleep-fast asleep in the most antinarcotic place in the world-excellent!" VILLENEUVE (TITLE VIGNETTE)......... C. STANField, a.r.a. From a Sketch by REV. J. D. GLENNIE. (ORIGINAL MINIATURE.) J.M.W.TURNER, R.A. W. PAGE. G. CATTERMOLE. W. PAGE. ITHACA..... C. STANFIELD, A.R.A. W. PAGE. SANTA MAURA. C. STANFIELD, A.R.A. CORFU..... C. STANFIELD, A.R.A. YANINA ALI PACHA......... DELPHI CORINTH.......... THE ACROPOLIS, ATHENS ...... TEMPLE OF JUPITER OLYMPIUS, ATHENS........ C. STANFIELD, A.R.A. W. PAGE. OLYMPIUS, C. STANFIELD, a.r.a. TEMPLE OF JUPITER OLYMPIUS, C. STANFIELD, a.r.a. W. PAGE. W. PAGE. AT ATHENS.............. ............. SANTA SOPHIA, CONSTANTINOPLE....... D. ROBERTS, A.R.A. SANTA SOPHIA, FROM THE BOSPHORUS.. D. ROBERTS, A.R.A. W. PAGE. R. COCKERELL, A.R.A. THE RIGHT HON. LADY NOEL BYRON W. J. NEWTON. ADA.... F. STONE. W. PAGE. (ORIGINAL MINIATURE.) (ORIGINAL MINIATURE.) GIBRALTAR. Drawn by J. M. W. Turner, R.A. "Through Calpe's straits survey the steepy shore; Europe and Afric on each other gaze! Lands of the dark-eyed maid and dusky Moor." Childe Harold, canto ii. st. 22. "THE promontory of Gibraltar (the ancient Mount Calpe) derives its name from the Arabic, Jebal al Târik,' being the spot where Târik, the Moorish leader, landed to attack Spain. The town of Gibraltar has erroneously been supposed to be built on the site of the ancient Heraclea. It appears, however, that Heraclea was situated near Carteia, five miles to the west of Mount Calpe, where extensive ruins are still visible. No remains or coins, excepting of Moorish origin, are found at Gibraltar. The Moorish castle, whose massy towers are seen above the northern extremity of the town, was built, according to an Arabic inscription still visible, in the time of the Caliph Walid, soon after the period of his landing here. It is chiefly constructed of tapia, or cement, moulded in frames, |