A Second Edition of Romano Lavo-Lil was issued by the same publisher, John Murray, in 1888, and a Third in 1905.
There is a copy of the First Edition of Romano Lavo-Lil in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 2278. c. 15.
(16) [The Turkish Jester: 1884]
The Turkish Jester; / Or, / The Pleasantries / of / Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi. / Translated from the Turkish / By / George Borrow. / Ipswich: / W. Webber, Dial Lane. / 1884.
Collation:—Crown octavo, printed in half-sheets, pp. ii + 52; consisting of: Title-page, as above (with Certificate of Issue upon the centre of the reverse) pp. i–ii; and Text pp. 1–52. There are no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally. The book is made up in a somewhat unusual manner, each half-sheet having a separately printed quarter-sheet of two leaves imposed within it. The register is therefore B to E (four sections, each 6 leaves), plus F (2 leaves), the whole preceded by two leaves, one of which is blank, whilst the other carries the Title-page. There is no printer’s imprint. The book was issued without any Half-title. The title is enclosed within a single rectangular ruled frame.
Issued in cream-coloured paper wrappers, with the title-page reproduced upon the front, but reset in types of different character, and without the ruled frame, and with the imprint reading High Street in place of Dial Lane.
Inside the front cover the Certificate of Issue is repeated. The leaves measure 7¾ × 5 inches. The edition consisted of One Hundred and Fifty Copies. The published price was 7s. 6d.
The Manuscript of The Turkish Jester was formerly owned by Dr. Knapp, and is now the property of the Hispanic Society, of New York. It extends to 71 pages 4to. The translation was probably made about 1854, at the time when Borrow was at work upon his Songs of Europe. In 1857, the book was included among the Advertisements appended to the second volume of The Romany Rye.
There is a copy of the First Edition of The Turkish Jester in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 758. b. 16.