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blank reverse) pp. 1-2; Text of _Part III_ (including separate Fly-titles, each with blank reverse, to _The Praise of Buddh_, _On the Language of the Gitanos_, and _Robber Language_) pp. 3-156; Fly-title (with blank reverse) to _The Zincali_. _Vocabulary of their Language_ pp. i-ii; _Advertisement to the Vocabulary_ pp. iii-v; p. vi is blank; Text of the _Vocabulary_ pp. *1-*113; p. *114 is blank; Fly-title (with blank reverse) to _Miscellanies in the Gitano Language_ pp. *115-*116; _Advertisement_ to the _Miscellanies_ p. *117; and Text of the _Miscellanies_ pp. *118-*135. The reverse of p. *135 is blank. There are head-lines throughout, each verso being headed _The Zincali_, whilst each recto carries at its head a note of the particular subject occupying it. The imprint is repeated at the foot of p. *135. The signatures are a (2 leaves), b (one leaf), B to G (6 sheets, each 12 leaves), H (6 leaves), A (3 leaves), B to E (4 sheets, each 12 leaves), F (9 leaves), and G (12 leaves). B 6, B 8, and B 12 are cancel-leaves. The last leaf of Sig. G is occupied by a series of Advertisements of _Works just Published_ by John Murray. Issued (in _April_, 1841) in dark blue cloth boards, with white paper back-label, lettered "_Borrow's_ / _Gypsies_ / _of_ / _Spain_. / _Two Volumes_. / _Vol. I_. [Vol. II.]." The leaves measure 7.875 x 4.75 inches. The published price was 18_s._ Of the First Edition of _The Zincali_ Seven Hundred and Fifty Copies only were printed. A Second Edition, to which a new Preface was added, was published in _March_, 1843, and a Third in _September_, 1843, each of which was restricted to the same number of copies. The Fourth Edition appeared in 1846, the Fifth in 1870, the Sixth in 1882, the Seventh in 1888, and the Eighth in 1893. The book has since been included in various popular editions, and translated into several foreign languages. Examples of _The Zincali_ may sometimes be met with bearing dates other than those noted above. These are merely copies of the editions specified, furnished with new title-pages. Included in the second volume of _The Zincali_ is a considerable amount of verse, as follows: PAGE RHYMES OF THE GITANOS. [_Unto a refuge me they led_] 13 THE DELUGE. PART I. [_I with fear and terror quake_] 65 THE DELUGE. PART II. [_When I last did bid farewell_]
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