(48) [Finnish Arts: 1913]
Finnish Arts / Or / Sir Thor and Damsel Thure / A Ballad / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.
Collation:—Square demy octavo, pp. 27; consisting of: Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1–2; Frontispiece (with blank recto), pp. 3–4; Title-page, as above (with notice regarding the American copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 5–6; and Text of the Ballads pp. 7–27. There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon the reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint: “London: / Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N.W. / Edition limited to Thirty Copies.” The signatures are A (a quarter-sheet of two leaves), B (a half-sheet of four leaves), and C (a full sheet of eight leaves), each 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.
The Frontispiece is a reduced facsimile of the first page of the original Manuscript of Finnish Arts, or Sir Thor and Damsel Thure.
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| Finnish Arts, Or, Sir Thor and Damsel Thure. [Sir Thor was a knight of prowess tried] A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Manuscript of Finnish Arts will be found facing the present page. | 7 |
| A New Song to an Old Tune. [Who starves his wife] | 22 |
| Ode from Anacreon. [The earth to drink does not disdain] | 24 |
| Lines from the Italian. [“Repent, O repent!” said a Friar one day] | 25 |
| A Drinking Song. [O how my breast is glowing] | 26 |