The following verses made their first appearance in The Bible in Spain:
| vol. i., page | |
| Fragment of a Spanish Hymn. [Once of old upon a mountain, shepherds overcome with sleep] | 67 |
| Lines from an Eastern Poet. [I’ll weary myself each night and each day] | 149 |
| A Gachapla. [I stole a plump and bonny fowl] | 175 |
| vol. ii., page | |
| Fragment of a Patriotic Song. [Don Carlos is a hoary churl] | 141 |
| Saint James. [Thou shield of that faith which in Spain we revere] A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Manuscript of Saint James will be found facing the present page. | 176 |
| Lines. [May the Lord God preserve us from evil birds three] | 310 |
| Lines. [A handless man a letter did write] | 312 |
There is a copy of the First Edition of The Bible in Spain in the Library of the British Museum. The press-mark is 1369.f 23.
(9) [Review of Ford’s “Hand-book for Travellers in Spain”: 1845]
Art.—Hand-book for Travellers in Spain. London: 2 Vols. / post 8vo. 1845.
Collation:—Folio, pp. 12. There is no Title-page proper, the title, as above, being imposed upon the upper portion of the first page, after the manner of a ‘dropped head.’ The head-line is Spanish Hand-book throughout, upon both sides of the page. There is no printer’s imprint. There are also no signatures; but the pamphlet is composed of three sheets, each two leaves, making twelve pages in all.
Issued stitched, and without wrappers. The leaves measure 13½ × 8½ inches. The pamphlet is undated. It was printed in 1845.
This Review is unquestionably the rarest of the First Editions of Borrow’s Works. No more than two copies would appear to have been struck off, and both are fortunately extant to-day. One of these was formerly in the possession of Dr. William I. Knapp, and is now the property of the Hispanic Society, of New York. The second example is in my own library. This was Borrow’s own copy, and is freely corrected in his characteristic handwriting. A greatly reduced facsimile of the last page of the pamphlet is given herewith.
In 1845 Richard Ford published his Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain and Readers at Home [2 Vols. 8vo.], a work, the compilation of which is said to have occupied its author for more than sixteen years. In conformity with the wish of Ford (who had himself favourably reviewed The Bible in Spain) Borrow undertook to produce a study of the Hand-Book for The Quarterly Review. The above Essay was the result.