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 He considerably altered the translation in details, and especially wrote a new conclusion.

The importance of this new edition, especially in relation to the conflict between the old and the new spirit in our literature, merits a fuller description than has hitherto been given. Its title-page reads:

The frontispiece of Chodowiecki is now replaced by one designed by Blake and engraved by Perry. There are head and tail pieces by the same artist. Below the frontispiece are the following lines, "altered from Young" of the Night Thoughts:

The preface of the first edition is reprinted with slight changes, and a new preface, called an advertisement, explains the new issue. In this the publisher says:

The favourable manner in which the translation of "Leonora",