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 Dalby Bear. [There goes a bear on Dalby moors] | 5 |
| Tygge Hermandsen. [Down o’er the isle in torrents fell] The ballad was printed from a Manuscript written in 1854. I give a reduced facsimile of a page of an earlier Manuscript written in 1830. | 9 |
| The Wicked Stepmother. [Sir Ove he has no daughter but one] This ballad should be read in conjunction with The Wicked Stepmother, No. ii, printed in Young Swaigder or The Force of Runes and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 23–37. | 14 |
The complete Manuscript of The Dalby Bear and Other Ballads is in the library of Mr. Clement Shorter.
There is a copy of The Dalby Bear and Other Ballads in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38.
(24.) [The Mermaid’s Prophecy: 1913]
The / Mermaid’s Prophecy / and other / Songs relating to Queen Dagmar / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.
Collation:—Square demy octavo, pp. 30; consisting of Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1–2; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3–4; and Text of the Songs pp. 5–30. There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the particular Song occupying it. Following p. 30 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 and B (two sheets, each eight leaves), the one inset within the other.