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Author Name: Borrow, George
Title: Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good +
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: Reprint
Size: 5 x 7 1/2"
Publisher: London John Murray 1911
Illustrator: Wadham, Percy
Seller ID: 001702
569pp inc index and 6 pen and ink drawings.This is a new edition of the 3-volume first edition of 60 years earlier. It contains "the unaltered text of the original issue; some suppressed episodes; MS cariorum, vocabulary and notes by [Prof William W Knapp] the author of The Life of George Borrow".
George Borrow led a nomadic life in England and on the Continent, where he was a translator and agent for the British and Foreign Bible Society. His friendship with the Gypsies, whose language he learned, resulted in The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain (1841). Although his most famous book is The Bible in Spain (1843), his best is probably the autobiographical Lavengro (1851), with its sequel, Romany Rye (1857). (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001)
Autobiography, George Borrow, Gypsies, Romany, Antiquarian
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