Sales catalogue 487: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/49
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 487: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SrrrrrTirrrTETnE Borrow (George)—continued. 218 Grimhild’s Vengeance: Three Ballads. Edited with an Introduction by Edmund Gosse. Small 4to, original green paper wrappers. London, Printed for Private Circulation, 1913. £2 10s One of 80 copies only printed. : ; Presentation Copy from the Publisher, T. J Wise, to Col. W. F. Prideaux, with inscription on half-title. | 219 King Diderik and the Fight between the Lion and Dragon, and other Ballads. small 4to, ovzgznal green paper wrappers. London, Printed for Private Circulation, 1913. £2 10s Presentation copy from the Publisher, T. J. Wise, to Colonel W. F. Prideaux, with inscription on half title. One of 30 copies only printed. 220 ** King Hacon’s Death ”’ and *‘ Bran and the Black Dog.’’ [he Autograph Manuscripts of these two Ballads. Comprising together 12 pp., 8vo. N.D. Also the rare Privately Printed Pamphlet (limited issue) in which these two Ballads were first printed. 6 pp., 8vo, ovzginal wrappers, 1913. Together, handsomely bound (the pamphlet being inlatd to size) in full levant morocco extra, lettered on side and back. Small 4to. £38 The original manuscripts of the two Ballads from which the pamphlet was printed, and which was limited to 30 copies. The second poem commences : ‘* The day we went to the hills to chase Of dogs we had a brave company; There heard we the songs of the feather’d race, The blare of the elk, and the roebuck’s cry. In the hills we have no common sport, With our dogs and our arms many deer we slew; When at noon we return’d to our silvan court, We were a well-pleas’d, laughing crew. That night the house ot the Fenian king With a band of joyous guests was fill’d; The manner we sang, whilst we plied the string, Jn which the buck and the elk we kill’d.’’ Ete.
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