(58) [The Brother Avenged: 1913]

The Brother Avenged / and / Other Ballads / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.

Collation:—Square demy octavo, pp. 32; consisting of Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1–2; Title-page, as above (with a note regarding the American copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp 3–4; and Text of the Ballads pp. 5–32. There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. At the foot of p. 32 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 × 6⅞ inches.

Thirty Copies only were printed

Contents.

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The Brother Avenged. [I stood before my master’s board] Previously printed (with some textual variations) in The Foreign Quarterly Review, vol. vi, June 1830, pp 61–62.	5
The Eyes. [268] [To kiss a pair of red lips small]	9
Harmodius and Aristogiton. [With the leaves of the myrtle I’ll cover my brand]	12
My Dainty Dame. [My dainty Dame, my heart’s delight]	14
Grasach Abo or The Cause of Grace. [O, Baillie Na Cortie! thy turrets are tall]	16
Dagmar. [Sick in Ribe Dagmar’s lying]	19
The Elf Bride. [There was a youthful swain one day] These stanzas should be compared with The Elves, printed in The Nightingale, The Valkyrie and Raven, and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 25–26.	21
The Treasure Digger. [O, would that with last and shoe I had stay’d]	23
The Fisher. [The fisherman saddleth his good winged horse]	25
The Cuckoo. [Abiding an appointment made]	29

Note.—Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for the first time in this volume.

There is a copy of The Brother Avenged and Other Ballads in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38.