. ix-xi, p. xii is blank; Text of the _Ballads_ pp. 1-184; and
List of Subscribers pp. 185-187. The reverse of p. 187 is blank. There
are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the
Ballad occupying it. The imprint is repeated at the foot of p. 184. The
signatures are a (a half-sheet of 4 leaves), b (a quarter-sheet of 2
leaves), B to M (eleven sheets, each 8 leaves), and N (a half-sheet of 4
leaves), followed by an unsigned quarter-sheet of 2 leaves carrying the
List of Subscribers. {12} Sigs. G 5 and H 2 (pp. 89-90 and 99-100) are
cancel-leaves, mounted on stubs, in every copy I have met with.

Issued (in _May_ 1826) in dark greenish-grey paper boards, with white
paper back-label, lettered "_Romantic_ / _Ballads_ / _From the_ / _Danish
By_ / _G. Borrow_ / _Price_ 10/6 _net_." The leaves measure 9 x 5.5
inches.

The volume of _Romantic Ballads_ was printed at Norwich during the early
months of 1826. The edition consisted of Five Hundred Copies, but only
Two Hundred of these were furnished with the Title-page transcribed
above. These were duly distributed to the subscribers. The remaining
Three Hundred copies were forwarded to London, where they were supplied
with the two successive title-pages described below, and published in the
ordinary manner.

"_I had an idea that_, _provided I could persuade any spirited
publisher to give these translations to the world_, _I should acquire
both considerable fame and profit_;_ not perhaps a world-embracing
fame such as Byron's_, _but a fame not to be sneered at_, _which
would last me a considerable time_, _and would keep my heart from
breaking_;--_profit_, _not equal to that which Scott had made by his
wondrous novels_, _but which would prevent me from starving_, _and
enable me to achieve some other literary enterprise_. _I read and
re-read my ballads_, _and the more I read them the more I was
convinced that the public_, _in the event of their being published_,
_would freely purchase_, _and hail them with merited
applause_"--["George Borrow and his Circle," 1913, p. 102.]

Allan Cunningham's appreciation of the manner in which Borrow had
succeeded in his effort to introduce the Danish Ballads to English
readers is well expressed in the following letter:

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