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_ / _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_. PAGE 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_.
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