PART III. BORROVIANA: COMPLETE VOLUMES OF BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM.
Reading edition
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George Borrow in / East Anglia / By / William A. Dutt / [Quotation from Emerson] / London / David Nutt, 270–271, Strand / 1896.
Collation:—Crown octavo, pp. 80.
Issued in paper boards backed with cloth, with the title-page, slightly abbreviated, reproduced upon the front cover. Some copies are in cream-coloured paper wrappers.
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Life, Writings, / and Correspondence of / George Borrow / Derived from Official and other / Authentic Sources / By William I. Knapp, Ph.D., LL.D. / Author and Editor of French and Spanish Text-Books / Editor of “Las Obras de Boscan,” “Diego de Mendoza,” etc. / And late of Yale and Chicago Universities / With Portrait and Illustrations / In Two Volumes / Vol. I. [Vol. II.] / London / John Murray, Albemarle Street / New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons / 1899.
Collation:—Demy octavo:
Vol. I. pp. xx + 402.
Vol. II. pp. x + 406, with an inserted slip carrying a List of Errata for both Volumes.
Issued in dull green cloth boards, gilt lettered.
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George Borrow / The Man and his Work / By / R. A. J. Walling / Author of “A Sea Dog of Devon” / Cassell and Company, Limited / London, Paris, New York, Toronto and Melbourne / mcmviii.
Collation:—Crown octavo, pp. xii + 356.
Issued in dull red cloth boards, gilt lettered.
Several Letters from Borrow to Dr. [afterwards Sir John] Bowring were first printed in this volume.
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George Borrow / Von / Dr. Bernhard Blaesing. / Berlin / Emil Ebering / 1910.
Collation:—Royal octavo, pp. 78.
Issued in mottled-grey paper wrappers, with the title-page reproduced upon the front.
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Cymmrodorion / Society’s / Publications. / George Borrow’s Second / Tour in Wales. / By / T. C. Cantrill, B.Sc., / and / J. Pringle. / From “Y Cymmrodor,” Vol. xxii. [313] / London: Issued by the Society, / New Stone Buildings, 64, Chancery Lane.
Collation:—Demy octavo, pp. 11, without title-page, the title, as above, appearing upon the front wrapper only.
Issued (in April, 1911) in bright green paper wrappers, with the title in full upon the front.
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George Borrow / The Man and his Books / By / Edward Thomas / Author of / “The Life of Richard Jefferies,” “Light and / Twilight,” “Rest and Unrest,” “Maurice / Maeterlinck,” Etc. / With Portraits and Illustrations / London / Chapman & Hall, Ltd. / 1912.
Collation:—Demy octavo, pp. xii + 333 + viii.
Issued in deep mauve coloured cloth boards, gilt lettered.
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The Life of / George Borrow / Compiled from Unpublished / Official Documents, his / Works, Correspondence, etc. / By Herbert Jenkins / With a Frontispiece in Photogravure, and / Twelve other Illustrations / London / John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. / 1912.
Collation:—Demy octavo, pp. xxvi [misnumbered xxviii] + 496.
Issued in bright green cloth boards, gilt lettered. A Second Edition appeared in 1913.
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George / Borrow / A Sermon preached in / Norwich Cathedral on / July 6, 1913 / By / H. C. Beeching, D.D., D.Litt. / Dean of Norwich / London / Jarrold & Sons / Publishers.
Collation:—Crown octavo, pp. 12.
Issued in drab paper wrappers, with the title-page reproduced upon the front, the words Threepence Net being added at foot.
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Souvenir / of the / George Borrow / Celebration / Norwich, July 5th, 1913 / By / James Hooper / Prepared and Published for / the Committee / Jarrold & Sons / Publishers / London and Norwich.
Collation:—Royal octavo, pp. 48, with a Portrait-Frontispiece, and twenty-four Illustrations and Portraits.
Issued in white pictorial paper wrappers, with trimmed edges.
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Catalogue of the Exhibition / Commemorative of George Borrow / Author of “Lavengro” etc. held / at the Norwich Castle Museum. / July, 1913. / Price 3d.
Collation:—Post octavo, pp. 12.
Issued wire-stitched, without wrappers, and with trimmed edges.
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George Borrow / and his Circle / Wherein may be found many / hitherto Unpublished Letters / of Borrow and his Friends / By / Clement King Shorter / Hodder and Stoughton / London New York Toronto / 1913.
Collation:—Square octavo, printed in half-sheets, pp. xix + 450; with a Portrait of Borrow as Frontispiece, and numerous other Illustrations.
Issued in dark crimson paper boards, backed with buckram, gilt lettered.
There are several variations in this edition as compared with one published simultaneously in America by Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. of Cambridge, Mass. These variations are connected with Borrow’s attitude towards the British and Foreign Bible Society, Mr. Shorter having taken occasion to pass some severe strictures upon the obvious cant which characterised the Bible Society in its relations with Borrow. These strictures, although supported by ample quotations from unpublished documents, the London publishers, being a semi-religious house, persuaded the author to cancel.
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A / Bibliography / of / The Writings in Prose and Verse / of / George Henry Borrow / By / Thomas J. Wise / London: / Printed for Private Circulation only / By Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. / 1914.
Collation:—Foolscap quarto, pp. xxii + 316, with Sixty-nine facsimiles of Title-pages and Manuscripts.
Issued in bright green paper boards, lettered across the back, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. One hundred copies only were printed.
London: PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY By Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. 1914.