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| The Brother Avenged. [I stood before my master’s board] Previously printed (with some textual variations) in The Foreign Quarterly Review, vol. vi, June 1830, pp 61–62. | 5 |
| The Eyes. [268] [To kiss a pair of red lips small] | 9 |
| Harmodius and Aristogiton. [With the leaves of the myrtle I’ll cover my brand] | 12 |
| My Dainty Dame. [My dainty Dame, my heart’s delight] | 14 |
| Grasach Abo or The Cause of Grace. [O, Baillie Na Cortie! thy turrets are tall] | 16 |
| Dagmar. [Sick in Ribe Dagmar’s lying] | 19 |
| The Elf Bride. [There was a youthful swain one day] These stanzas should be compared with The Elves, printed in The Nightingale, The Valkyrie and Raven, and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 25–26. | 21 |
| The Treasure Digger. [O, would that with last and shoe I had stay’d] | 23 |
| The Fisher. [The fisherman saddleth his good winged horse] | 25 |
| The Cuckoo. [Abiding an appointment made] | 29 |
Note.—Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for the first time in this volume.
There is a copy of The Brother Avenged and Other Ballads in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38.
(59) [The Gold Horns: 1913]
The Gold Horns / Translated by / George Borrow / from the Danish of / Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger / Edited / with an Introduction by / Edmund Gosse, C.B. / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.
Collation:—Square demy octavo, pp. 25; consisting of: Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1–2; Title-page, as above (with a note regarding the American copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3–4; Introduction pp. 5–9; and Text of The Gold Horns, the Danish and English texts facing each other upon opposite pages, pp. 10–25. The reverse of p. 25 is blank. There are head-lines throughout,
each recto being headed The Gold Horns, and each verso Guldhornene. The book is completed by a leaf, with blank 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 (a half-sheet of four leaves), B (a quarter-sheet of two 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.