. 10.]

[Picture: Printed extract from the Review with hand-written notes]

[Picture: Title page of Supplementary Chapter to The Bible in Spain,
1913]

(10) [A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER TO "THE BIBLE IN SPAIN": 1913]

A / Supplementary Chapter / to / The Bible in Spain / Inspired by /
Ford's "Handbook for Travellers in Spain." / By / George Borrow / London:
/ Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.

Collation:--Square demy octavo, pp. 46; consisting of: Half-title (with
blank reverse) pp. 1-2; Frontispiece (with blank recto) pp. 3-4;
Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. 5-6; _Prefatory Note_
(signed '_T. J. W._') pp. 7-10; and text of the _Chapter pp._ 11-46.
There are head-lines throughout, each verso being headed _A Supplementary
Chapter_, and each recto _To the Bible in Spain_. Following p. 46 is a
leaf, with blank recto, and with the following imprint upon the reverse,
"_London_: / _Printed for Thomas J. Wise_, _Hampstead_, _N. W._ /
_Edition limited to Thirty Copies_." The signatures are A to C (3
sheets, each 8 leaves), inset within each other.

Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges, and with the
title-page reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 8.75 x 6.875
inches.

Thirty Copies only were printed.

The Frontispiece consists of a greatly reduced facsimile of the last
page, bearing Borrow's corrections, of the original edition of his
_Review of Ford's_ '_Hand-Book_.'

This _Supplementary Chapter to_ "_The Bible in Spain_" is a reprint of
the Review of Ford's _Hand-book for Travellers in Spain_ written by
Borrow in 1845 for insertion in _The Quarterly Review_, but withdrawn by
him in consequence of the proposal made by the Editor, John Gibson
Lockhart, that he should himself introduce into Borrow's Essay a series
of extracts from the _Handbook_. [See _ante_, No. 9.]

Included in the _Prefatory Note_ is the following amusing squib, written
by Borrow in 1845, but never printed by him. I chanced to light upon the
Manuscript in a packet of his still unpublished verse:

_Would it not be more dignified_
_To run up debts on every side_,
_And then to pay your debts refuse_,
_Than write for rascally Reviews_?
_And lectures give to great and small_,
_In pot-house_, _theatre_, _and town-hall_,
_Wearing your brains by night and day_
_To win the means to pay your way_?
_I vow by him who reig