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.
