lead thee_, /
_Many this night shall harken and heed thee_. / _Far abroad_, /
_Demi-god_, / _Who shall appal thee_! / _Javal_, _or devil_, _or what
else we call thee_. / Hymn to the Devil. / London: / W. Simpkin and R.
Marshall. / 1825.

[Picture: Title page of Fautus, 1825]

Collation:--Foolscap octavo, pp. xii + 251; consisting of: Half-title
(with imprint "_Printed by_ / _J. and C. Adlard_, _Bartholomew Close_" at
the foot of the reverse) pp. i-ii; Title-page, as above (with blank
reverse) pp. iii-iv; Preface (headed _The Translator to the Public_) pp.
v-viii; Table of _Contents_ pp. ix-xii; and Text pp. 1-251. The reverse
of p. 251 is occupied by Advertisements of Horace Welby's _Signs before
Death_, and John Timbs's _Picturesque Promenade round Dorking_. The
headline is _Faustus_ throughout, upon both sides of the page. At the
foot of the reverse of p. 251 the imprint is repeated thus, "_J. and C.
Adlard_, _Bartholomew Close_." The signatures are A (6 leaves), B to Q
(15 sheets, each 8 leaves), plus R (6 leaves).

Issued (in _April_, 1825) in bright claret-coloured linen boards, with
white paper back-label. The leaves measure 6.75 x 4.25 inches. The
published price was 7_s._ 6_d._

The volume has as _Frontispiece_ a coloured plate, engraved upon copper,
representing the supper of the sheep-headed Magistrates, described on pp.
64-66. The incident selected for illustration is the moment when the
wine 'issued in blue flames from the flasks,' and 'the whole assembly sat
like so many ridiculous characters in a mad masquerade.' This
illustration was not new to Borrow's book. It had appeared both in the
German original, and in the French translation of 1798. In the original
work the persons so bitterly satirized were the individuals composing the
Corporation of Frankfort.

In 1840 'remainder' copies of the First Edition of _Faustus_ were issued
with a new title-page, pasted upon a stub, carrying at foot the following
publishers' imprint, "_London_: / _Simpkin_, _Marshall & Co._ / 1840."
They were made up in bright claret-coloured linen boards, uniform with
the original issue, with a white paper back-label. The published price
was again 7_s._ 6_d._

_Faustus_ was translated by Borrow from the German of Friedrich
Maximilian von Klinger. Mr. Shorter suggests, with much reason, that
Borrow did not make his translation from the original German edition of
1791, but from a French translation