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Title: A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow

Author: Thomas J. Wise

Release Date: June 30, 2008 [eBook #25939]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS IN
PROSE AND VERSE OF GEORGE HENRY BORROW***

Transcribed from the 1914 Richard Clay and Sons edition by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org

[Picture: Manuscript of Lord's Prayer in Romany]

A
BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF
THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE
OF
GEORGE HENRY BORROW

BY
THOMAS J. WISE

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY
BY RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LTD.
1914

OF THIS BOOK
ONE HUNDRED COPIES ONLY
HAVE BEEN PRINTED.

PREFACE

The object of the present Bibliography is to give a concise account,
accompanied by accurate collations, of the original editions of the Books
and Pamphlets of George Borrow, together with a list of his many
contributions to Magazines and other Publications. It will doubtless be
observed that no inconsiderable portion of the Bibliography deals with
the attractive series of Pamphlets containing Ballads, Poems, and other
works by Borrow which were printed for Private Circulation during the
course of last year. Some account of the origin of these pamphlets, and
some information regarding the material of which they are composed, may
not be considered as inopportune or inappropriate.

As a writer of English Prose Borrow long since achieved the position
which was his due; as a writer of English Verse he has yet to come by his
own.

The neglect from which Borrow's poetical compositions (by far the larger
proportion of which are translations from the Danish and other tongues)
have suffered has arisen from one cause, an