_ /
_Edition limited to Thirty Copies_." The signatures are A to C (Three
sheets, each eight leaves) inset within each other. The last leaf of
Sig. C is a blank.

Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges, and with the
title-page reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 8.5 x 6.875
inches.

Thirty Copies only were printed.

_Contents_.

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Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg. [_At the wide board at 5
tables play_]

In some respects _Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg_ is the most ambitious
of Borrow's Ballads. It is considerably the longest, unless we regard
the four "_Songs_" of which _Marsk Stig_ is comprised as forming one
complete poem. But it is by no means the most successful; indeed it is
invariably in his shorter Ballads that we find Borrow obtaining the
happiest result.

Two Manuscripts of _Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg_ are available. The
first was prepared in 1829 for the _Songs of Scandinavia_. The second
was revised in 1854 for the _Koempe Viser_. This later Manuscript is in
my own possession. I give herewith a reduced facsimile of one of its
pages.

There is a copy of _Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg_ in the Library of the
British Museum. The Press-mark is C.44.d.38.

[Picture: Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg--1854]

(30) [KING HACON'S DEATH: 1913]

King Hacon's Death / and / Bran and the Black Dog / Two Ballads / By /
George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.

Collation:--Crown octavo, pp. 14; consisting of: Half-title (with blank
reverse) pp. 1-2; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3-4; and
Text of the _Two Ballads_ pp. 5-14. There are head-lines throughout,
each page being headed with the title of the particular _Ballad_
occupying it. Following p. 14 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_." There
are no signatures, the pamphlet being composed of a single sheet, folded
to form sixteen pages.

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.

_Contents_.