r's possession.
There is a copy of _Letters to his Mother_, _Ann Borrow_, in the Library
of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 57. e. 46.
(58) [THE BROTHER AVENGED: 1913]
The Brother Avenged / and / Other Ballads / By / George Borrow / London:
/ Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.
Collation:--Square demy octavo, pp. 32; consisting of Half-title (with
blank reverse) pp. 1-2; Title-page, as above (with a note regarding the
American copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp 3-4; and Text of
the _Ballads_ pp. 5-32. There are head-lines throughout, each page being
headed with the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. At the foot
of p. 32 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_.
PAGE
THE BROTHER AVENGED. [_I stood before my master's 5
board_]
Previously printed (with some textual variations) in _The
Foreign Quarterly Review_, vol. vi, _June_ 1830, pp
61-62.
THE EYES. {268} [_To kiss a pair of red lips small_] 9
HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGITON. [_With the leaves of the 12
myrtle I'll cover my brand_]
MY DAINTY DAME. [_My dainty Dame_, _my heart's delight_] 14
GRASACH ABO OR THE CAUSE OF GRACE. [_O_, _Baillie Na 16
Cortie_! _thy turrets are tall_]
DAGMAR. [_Sick in Ribe Dagmar's lying_] 19
THE ELF BRIDE. [_There was a youthful swain one day_] 21
These stanzas should be compared with _The Elves_,
printed in _The Nightingale_, _The Valkyrie and Raven_,
_and Other Ballads_, 1913, pp. 25-26.
THE TREASURE DIGGER. [_O_, _would that with last and 23
shoe I had stay'd_]
THE FISHER. [_The fisherman saddleth his good winged 25
horse_]
THE CUCKOO. [_Abiding an appointment made_] 29
_Note_.--Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for the
first time in this volume.
There is a
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