es; / By / George Borrow. / _Through gloomy paths unknown_--/ _Paths
which untrodden be_, / _From rock to rock I roam_ / _Along the dashing
sea_. / Bowring. / London: / John Taylor, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, /
1826.
Collation:--Demy octavo, pp. xii + 187. The details of the collation
follow those of the First Issue described above in every particular, save
that, naturally, the volume lacks the two concluding leaves carrying the
List of Subscribers.
Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back-label. The published
price was Seven Shillings.
"_Taylor will undertake to publish the remaining copies_. _His
advice is to make the price seven shillings_, _and to print a new
title-page_, _and then he will be able to sell some for you I advise
the same_," _etc._--[Allan Cunningham to George Borrow.]
There is a copy of the Second Issue of the First Edition of _Romantic
Ballads_ in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 11565.
cc. 8.
_Third Issue_: 1826
Romantic Ballads, / Translated from the Danish; / and / Miscellaneous
Pieces; / By / George Borrow. / _Through gloomy paths unknown_--/ _Paths
which untrodden be_, / _From rock to rock I roam_ / _Along the dashing
sea_. / Bowring. / London: / Published by Wightman and Cramp, / 24
Paternoster Row. / 1826.
Collation:--Demy octavo, pp. xii + 187. The details of the collation
follow those of the Second Issue described above in every particular.
Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back-label. The price was
again Seven Shillings.
In 1913 a type-facsimile reprint of the Original Edition of _Romantic
Ballads_ was published by Messrs. Jarrold and Sons of Norwich. Three
hundred Copies were printed.
(4) [TARGUM: 1835]
Targum. / Or / Metrical Translations / From Thirty Languages / and /
Dialects. / By / George Borrow. / "_The raven has ascended to the nest of
the nightingale_." / Persian Poem. / St. Petersburg. / Printed by Schulz
and Beneze. / 1835.
Collation:--Demy octavo, printed in half-sheets, pp. viii + 106;
consisting of: Title-page, as above (with a Russian quotation upon the
centre of the reverse) pp. i-ii; _Preface_ pp. iii-v; Table of _Contents_
pp. vi-viii, with a single _Erratum_ at the foot of p. viii; and Text of
the _Translations_ pp. 1-106. There are no head-lines, the pages being
numbered centrally in Arabic numerals. Beyond that upon the foot of the
title-page, there is no imprint
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