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An important feature of this edition is its copious footnotes. Footnote numbers are shown as small, superscript, bracketed codes in the text. Each such code is a link to the footnote text. Footnotes indexed with arabic numbers are informational. Note text in square brackets is the work of editor E.H. Coleridge, and is unique to this edition. Note text not in brackets is from earlier editions and is by a preceding editor or Byron himself.

Footnotes indexed with letters document variant forms of the text from manuscripts and other sources.

In the original, footnotes were printed at the foot of the page on which they were referenced, and their indices started over on each page. In this etext, footnotes have been collected at the ends of each preface or Canto, and have been numbered consecutively throughout. However, in the blocks of footnotes are numbers in braces: {495}. These represent the page number on which following footnotes originally appeared. The same page numbers are also preserved as HTML anchors of the form Note_495. Thus when the Preface refers to "a note (pp 495-497)," you can locate that note either by searching the text for {495}, or by appending #Note_495 to the document URL.

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