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Title: Lavengro
The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

Author: George Borrow

Editor: William Knapp

Release Date: November 1, 2007 [eBook #23287]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LAVENGRO***

Transcribed from the 1911 John Murray edition, by David Price,
ccx074@pglaf.org

LAVENGRO
THE SCHOLAR, THE GYPSY,
THE PRIEST

BY GEORGE BORROW

A NEW EDITION CONTAINING THE UNALTERED TEXT
OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE; SOME SUPPRESSED
EPISODES, MS. VARIORUM, VOCABULARY
AND NOTES BY THE AUTHOR OF
THE LIFE OF GEORGE BORROW

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET
1911

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FIRST EDITION . . . 1851
SECOND EDITION . . . ----
THIRD EDITION . . . 1872
FOURTH EDITION . . . 1888
FIFTH EDITION . . . 1896
SIXTH (DEFINITIVE) EDITION . . . 6/- _March_, 1900
_Reprinted_ . . . _July_, 1902
_Reprinted_ . . . _May_, 1904
_Reprinted_ . . . Thin Paper . _Aug._, 1905
_Reprinted_ . . . 6/- . _Jan._, 1907
_Reprinted_ . . . _Sept._, 1907
_Reprinted_ . . . 2/6 net . _Sept._, 1907
_Reprinted_ . . . Thin Paper . _June_ 1908
_Reprinted_ . . . 1/- net . _Feb._, 1911

[ORIGINAL TITLE PAGE.]

LAVENGRO;

THE SCHOLAR--THE GYPSY--THE PRIEST.

BY GEORGE BORROW,
AUTHOR OF "THE BIBLE IN SPAIN" AND "THE GYPSIES OF SPAIN"

IN THREE VOLUMES--VOL. I.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1851.

ADVERTISEMENT. (1851.)

In compliance with the advice of certain friends who are desirous that it
may not be supposed that the following work has been written expressly
for the present times, the author begs leave to state that it was planned
in the year 1842, and all the characters sketched before the conclusion
of the year 1843. The contents of the volumes here offered to the public
have, with the exception of the Preface, existed in manuscript for a very
considerable time.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. (1851.)

In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe a dream, partly of
study, partly of adventure, in which wil