orrow / London: /
Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.
Collation:--Crown octavo, pp. 38; consisting of: Half-title (with blank
reverse) pp. 1-2; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse), pp. 3-4; and
Text of the _Letters_ pp. 5-38. The head-line is _Letters to His Wife_
throughout, upon both sides of the page. Following p. 38 is a leaf, with
blank reverse, and with the following imprint upon its recto, "_London_:
/ _Printed for Thomas J. Wise_, _Hampstead_, _N.W._ / _Edition limited to
Thirty Copies_." The signatures are A (a half sheet of 4 leaves), plus B
and C (2 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 7.5 x 5 inches.
Thirty Copies only were printed.
Holograph Letters by Borrow are extremely uncommon, the number known to
be extant being far less than one might have supposed would be the case,
considering the good age to which Borrow attained. His correspondents
were few, and, save to the officials of the Bible Society, he was not a
diligent letter-writer. The holographs of this series of letters
addressed to his wife are in my own collection of Borroviana.
The majority of the letters included in this volume were reprinted in
_George Borrow and his Circle_. _By Clement King Shorter_, 8vo, 1913.
There is a copy of _Letters to his Wife_, _Mary Borrow_, in the Library
of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 32.
(20) [MARSK STIG: 1913]
Marsk Stig / A Ballad / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for
Private Circulation / 1913.
Collation:--Crown octavo, pp. 40; consisting of: Half-title (with blank
reverse) pp. 1-2; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3-4; and
Text of the _Ballad_ pp. 5-40. The head-line is _Marsk Stig_ throughout,
upon both sides of the page. At the foot of p. 40 is the following
imprint, "_London_: / _Printed for Thomas J. Wise_, _Hampstead_, _N.W._ /
_Edition limited to Thirty Copies_." The signatures are A (a half-sheet
of 4 leaves), plus B and C (2 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 7.5 x 5 inches.
Thirty Copies only were printed.
_Marsk Stig_ consists of four separate Ballads, or _Songs_ as Borrow
styled them, the whole forming one complete and connec
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