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Wise_, _Hampstead_, _N.W._ / _Edition limited to Thirty Copies_." The signatures are A (a quarter-sheet of two leaves), B (a half-sheet of four leaves), and C (a full sheet of eight leaves), each 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. The Frontispiece is a reduced facsimile of the first page of the original Manuscript of _Finnish Arts_, _or Sir Thor and Damsel Thure_. _Contents_. PAGE FINNISH ARTS, OR, SIR THOR AND DAMSEL THURE. [_Sir Thor 7 was a knight of prowess tried_] A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Manuscript of _Finnish Arts_ will be found facing the present page. A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE. [_Who starves his wife_] 22 ODE FROM ANACREON. [_The earth to drink does not 24 disdain_] LINES FROM THE ITALIAN. ["_Repent_, _O repent_!" _said a 25 Friar one day_] A DRINKING SONG. [_O how my breast is glowing_] 26 There is a copy of _Finnish Arts_, _Or Sir Thor and Damsel Thure_ in the Library of the British Museum. The Pressmark is C. 44. d. 38. [Picture: Manuscript of Finnish Arts] (49) [BROWN WILLIAM: 1913] Brown William / The Power of the Harp / and / Other Ballads / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913. Collation:--Square demy octavo, pp. 31; consisting of: Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1-2; Title-page, as above (with notice regarding the American copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3-4; and Text of the _Ballads_ pp. 5-31. There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the particular _Ballad_ occupying it. Upon the reverse of p. 31 is the following imprint: "_London_ / _Printed for Thomas J. Wise_, _Hampstead_, _N.W._ / _Edition limited to Thirty Copies_." The signatures are A and B (two sheets, each 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_.
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