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es; / By / George Borrow. / _Through gloomy paths unknown_--/ _Paths which untrodden be_, / _From rock to rock I roam_ / _Along the dashing sea_. / Bowring. / London: / John Taylor, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, / 1826. Collation:--Demy octavo, pp. xii + 187. The details of the collation follow those of the First Issue described above in every particular, save that, naturally, the volume lacks the two concluding leaves carrying the List of Subscribers. Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back-label. The published price was Seven Shillings. "_Taylor will undertake to publish the remaining copies_. _His advice is to make the price seven shillings_, _and to print a new title-page_, _and then he will be able to sell some for you I advise the same_," _etc._--[Allan Cunningham to George Borrow.] There is a copy of the Second Issue of the First Edition of _Romantic Ballads_ in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 11565. cc. 8. _Third Issue_: 1826 Romantic Ballads, / Translated from the Danish; / and / Miscellaneous Pieces; / By / George Borrow. / _Through gloomy paths unknown_--/ _Paths which untrodden be_, / _From rock to rock I roam_ / _Along the dashing sea_. / Bowring. / London: / Published by Wightman and Cramp, / 24 Paternoster Row. / 1826. Collation:--Demy octavo, pp. xii + 187. The details of the collation follow those of the Second Issue described above in every particular. Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back-label. The price was again Seven Shillings. In 1913 a type-facsimile reprint of the Original Edition of _Romantic Ballads_ was published by Messrs. Jarrold and Sons of Norwich. Three hundred Copies were printed. (4) [TARGUM: 1835] Targum. / Or / Metrical Translations / From Thirty Languages / and / Dialects. / By / George Borrow. / "_The raven has ascended to the nest of the nightingale_." / Persian Poem. / St. Petersburg. / Printed by Schulz and Beneze. / 1835. Collation:--Demy octavo, printed in half-sheets, pp. viii + 106; consisting of: Title-page, as above (with a Russian quotation upon the centre of the reverse) pp. i-ii; _Preface_ pp. iii-v; Table of _Contents_ pp. vi-viii, with a single _Erratum_ at the foot of p. viii; and Text of the _Translations_ pp. 1-106. There are no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally in Arabic numerals. Beyond that upon the foot of the title-page, there is no imprint
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