Book is v + 106 + 14 pp. A posthumous republication of the combined form of Borrow's Targum: or Metrical Translations from Thirty Languages and Dialects and The Talisman, from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin, with Other Pieces, which had first been published both separately and together in St. Petersburg by Schulz and Beneze (1835). This republication reproduces the information from the original title pages as well as the original pagination of the two prior books in their collected form; the contents are unaltered other than the resetting in some different fonts, the addition of a new, preceding title page indicating London publication by Jarrold & Sons (but with no date given; for date, see Wise and Collie and Fraser in Scholarship, below), and the removal of the Russian imprimatur that the books (both separately and in their combined form) had originally borne on the reverse title page of each.

An 8-line stanzaic rendering of Beowulf, ll. 1386-89, presented in the manner of a lyric poem:

Every one beneath the heaven
Should of death expect the day,
And let him, whilst life is given,
Bright with fame his name array.

For amongst the countless number
In the clay-cold grave at rest,
Lock'd in arms of iron slumber,
He most happy is and blest. (39)

• Michael Collie and Angus Fraser, George Borrow: A Bibliographical Study (Winchester: St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1984), 107.

• Thomas J. Wise, A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow (London: privately printed by Richard Clay & Sons, 1914), 61.

Not in Fry, MO1, GR, or MO2.

BAM, from digital facsimile of a copy at the University of Michigan, via Hathitrust.org.