Borrow's Translation from the Welsh
The Sleeping Bard; or Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Elis Wyn. Translated from the Cambrian British by George Borrow.
London: John Murray, 1860.
Price: $200.00
About the item
First Edition. One of 250 copies. 1 vols. 12mo. Rebound in 3/4 brown morocco, t.e.g., by The Club Bindery, 1899. Upper cover detached, extremities worn; internally fine. With the bookplates of Henry William Poor, Helen Hay Whitney, and Joan Whitney. Collie and Fraser B.6WH/2/50/Borrow.
Item #220782
Borrow's translation from Welsh literature was published in a limited edition at his own expense; he had hoped to include three Cruikshank illustrations, but such was not to be. Despite its frequent errors, note Collie and Fraser, it "has attracted tributes from subsequent billingual Welsh translators."
