or Private
Circulation / 1913.

Collation:--Square demy octavo, pp. 23; consisting of: Half-title (with
blank reverse) pp. 1-2; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp.
3-4; and Text of the Poems pp. 5-23. There are head-lines throughout,
each page being headed with the title of the particular poem occupying
it. Upon the reverse of p. 23 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 four leaves), and
B (a full sheet of eight leaves), the one inset within the other.

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

Ermeline. [_With lance upraised so haughtily_] 5

The paper upon which the Manuscript of _Ermeline_ is
written is water-marked with the date 1843. No other MS.
is forthcoming.

The Cuckoo's Song in Merion. [_Though it has been my 21
fate to see_]

The fifth stanza of this _Song_ was printed by Borrow in
_Wild Wales_, 1862, vol. i, p. 153. The two versions of
this stanza offer some interesting variations of text; I
give them both:

1862

_Full fair the gleisiad in the flood_,
_Which sparkles_ '_neath the summer's sun_,
_And fair the thrush in green abode_
_Spreading his wings in sportive fun_,
_But fairer look if truth be spoke_,
_The maids of County Merion_.

1913

_O fair the salmon in the flood_,
_That over golden sands doth run_;
_And fair the thrush in his abode_,
_That spreads his wings in gladsome fun_;
_More beauteous look_, _if truth be spoke_,
_The maids of county Merion_.

There is a copy of _Ermeline A Ballad_ in the Library of the British
Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38.

[Picture: Title page for Giant of Bern]

(40) [THE GIANT OF BERN: 1913]

The Giant of Bern / and Orm Ungerswayne / A Ballad / By / George Borrow /
London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.

Collation:--Crown octavo, pp. 15; consisting of Half-title (with blank
reverse) pp. 1-2; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse)