(36) [The Songs of Ranild: 1913]
The Songs of Ranild / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.
Collation:—Square demy octavo, pp. 26; consisting of: Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1–2; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3–4; and Text of the Poems pp. 5–26. There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the particular poem occupying it. Following p. 26 is a leaf, with a notice regarding the American copyright upon the reverse, and with the following imprint upon its recto: “London: / Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N.W. / Edition limited to Thirty Copies.” The signatures are A (six leaves), and B (a full sheet of eight leaves), the one inset within the other.
Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 8½ × 6⅞ inches.
Thirty Copies only were printed.
Contents.
| page | |
| The Songs of Ranild: | |
| Song the First. [Up Riber’s street the dance they ply] | 5 |
| Song the Second. [To saddle his courser Ranild cried] | 10 |
| Song the Third. [So wide around the tidings bound] | 13 |
| Child Stig and Child Findal. [Child Stig and Child Findal two brothers were they] The Songs of Ranild were first written in 1826, and were finally prepared for press in 1854. I give herewith, facing p. 191, a facsimile, the exact size of the original, of the first page of the first draft of Song the Third. The complete MS. from which these four Ballads were printed is in the Library of Mr. J. A. Spoor, of Chicago. | 17 |
There is a copy of The Songs of Ranild in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38.
