Simpson, Esq. Jun.

W. W. Simpson, Esq., _London_

Mrs. E. Thurtell

Mr. J. Turner, _London_

Mr. Turner

J. Vincent, Esq., _London_

S. Weir, Esq., _Manchester_

Rev. G. Widrow, _Manchester_

Mr. Wilson

Mr. Winter

Mr. I. Wiseman

Hon. Col. Wodehouse

E. Wodehouse, Esq. M.P.

D. Woods, Esq., _Dereham_

Mr. I. Young, _London_, 2 copies

Mr. L. Young, _London_

APPENDIX No. 1.
A Bibliographical Note by Clement Shorter.

George Borrow commenced his literary career with a translation of
Klinger's "Faustus" in 1825, and by a compilation of "Celebrated Trials"
in the same year. Both these books appeared in London while he was
engaged as a bookseller's hack, as described in "Lavengro." In 1826
Borrow returned to Norwich, and there he issued from the printing-house
of S. Wilkin, in the Upper Haymarket, these "Romantic Ballads." He had
worked hard at collecting subscribers, and two hundred copies were
reserved for Norwich at half a guinea each copy; the remaining three
hundred out of an edition of five hundred were sent to London. Some of
these bear the imprint of John Taylor, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, 1826,
while the remainder bear the imprint of Wightman & Cramp, of Paternoster
Row, in the same year. Dr. Knapp only knew of the Taylor edition,
because that is referred to in the correspondence. Copies, however, of
the Wightman & Cramp edition are in existence, and the title-page will be
found reproduced with those of the first and second issue in the opening
pages of this volume. Borrow sent copies to Lockhart, and Cunningham
advised gifts to other reviewers; but not a single review of the book
appeared. Yet his subscription list "amply paid all expenses," as Borrow
states in a letter to Cunningham. That list reveals the fact that such
diverse persons as Dr. Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich, and Thurtell, the
murderer of Mr. Weare, were among the Norwich subscribers, while Benjamin
Haydon, John Timbs, and Thomas Campbell paid their half-guineas from
London. Thurtell, we may add, was hanged before the book appeared.

APPENDIX No. 2.
Facsimile of Borrow's Manuscript from the Collection of Clement Shorter.

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Footnotes:

{f:1} The goddess of death--according to the Northern mythology.

{f:2} The paradise of the Northern mythology.

{f:3} Moe in Da