(47) [Queen Berngerd: 1913]
Queen Berngerd / The Bard and the Dreams / and / Other Ballads / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.
Collation:—Square demy octavo, pp. 31; consisting of: Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1–2; Frontispiece (with blank recto) pp. 3–4; Title-page, as above (with a note regarding the American copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 5–6; and Text of the Ballads pp. 7–31. There are headlines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon the reverse of p. 31 is the following imprint: “London: / Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N.W. / Edition limited to Thirty Copies.” The signatures are A and B (two sheets each 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 x6¾ inches.
Thirty Copies only were printed.
The Frontispiece consists of a reduced facsimile of the original Manuscript, in Borrow’s handwriting, of The Bard and the Dreams.
Contents.
| page | |
| Queen Berngerd. [Long ere the Sun the heaven arrayed] | 7 |
| Dame Martha’s Fountain. [Dame Martha dwelt at Karisegaard] Previously printed (with some small differences of text) in The Foreign Quarterly Review, June 1830, p. 83. | 13 |
| The Bard and the Dreams. [O’er the sweet smelling meads with his lyre in his hand] | 16 |
| King Oluf the Saint. [King Oluf and his brother bold] Previously printed (with some slight differences of text) in The Foreign Quarterly Review, June 1830, pp. 59–61. | 23 |
| To Scribblers. [Would it not be more dignified] This delightful Squib, here first printed, was written by Borrow upon the refusal by Lockhart to insert in The Quarterly Review Borrow’s Essay suggested by Ford’s Handbook for Travellers in Spain, 1845, in the unmutilated and unamended form in which the author had written it.—[See ante, No. 10.] | 30 |
| To a Conceited Woman. [Be still, be still, and speak not back again] | 31 |
Note.—Each poem, to which no reference is attached, appeared for the first time in this volume.
There is a copy of Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams, and Other Ballads in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38.
(48) [Finnish Arts: 1913]
Finnish Arts / Or / Sir Thor and Damsel Thure / A Ballad / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.
Collation:—Square demy octavo, pp. 27; consisting of: Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1–2; Frontispiece (with blank recto), pp. 3–4; Title-page, as above (with notice regarding the American copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 5–6; and Text of the Ballads pp. 7–27. There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon the reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint: “London: / Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N.W. / Edition limited to Thirty Copies.” The signatures are A (a quarter-sheet of two leaves), B (a half-sheet of four leaves), and C (a full sheet of eight leaves), each 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.
The Frontispiece is a reduced facsimile of the first page of the original Manuscript of Finnish Arts, or Sir Thor and Damsel Thure.
| page | |
| Finnish Arts, Or, Sir Thor and Damsel Thure. [Sir Thor was a knight of prowess tried] A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Manuscript of Finnish Arts will be found facing the present page. | 7 |
| A New Song to an Old Tune. [Who starves his wife] | 22 |
| Ode from Anacreon. [The earth to drink does not disdain] | 24 |
| Lines from the Italian. [“Repent, O repent!” said a Friar one day] | 25 |
| A Drinking Song. [O how my breast is glowing] | 26 |
There is a copy of Finnish Arts, Or Sir Thor and Damsel Thure in the Library of the British Museum. The Pressmark is C. 44. d. 38.
