Today
we are featuring an Antique 1915 Edition of Volume I of Romany Rye, written by George Barrow. Published by John Murray, London. Book was originally published in 1857. Book was released in two volumes, but we are only offering
the first volume. Book measures 4.5” by 7” and contains 408 pages. Book is in
very nice condition overall. Pages show aging. Cover shows
normal wear. Cover is loose from spine, but still attached. Please have a look
at our photos for a closer inspection of this item.
There
was really nothing strange in being a Romany Rye back in the Victorian Age.
First coined by George Borrow in the title of this book, the term means, in the
Gypsy language, a "Gypsy Gentleman", an outsider of some means and
education accepted and adopted by the vagrant road people of the 19th century
English countryside. Between the Napoleonic Era and the First World War, there
were many such men, artists, intellectuals and romantic adventurers, who joined
Gypsy wagon trains and lived in their encampments out in the wild. But George
Borrow, the unparalleled polyglot and author of extravagant bestsellers, was
the first and foremost of them all. Sequel to Lavengro, his childhood memoirs,
The Romany Rye tells the story of Borrow's own vagabond years in the 1820's,
when he trekked along with the free spirits of the open roads. These were the
pristine days before the railroads wiped out the travelling habits of ages;
before harsher laws and constables put a stop to all vagrancy; before the
repeal of the Corn Laws, the advent of the Empire and the machinery of the
Industrial Revolution turned England into a wealthier but much bleaker place.
Borrow's world was still scenic, peopled by proud Gypsy families in their carts
and tents, by itinerant artisans settling on the outskirts of villages only as
long as there was work; by horse dealers and horse-thieves; pugilists, hedge
preachers, con men, circus artists, robust postillions and bizarre undercover
Catholic missionaries. With all of these George Borrow rubbed shoulders and
shared daily life. He learned how they journeyed, how they spoke and thought,
loved and fought, struck up friendships and settled enmities, how they faced
the law and were a law unto themselves. Only vaguely dramatized, Borrow's
Romany Rye is an eyewitness report to a vanished world. It is therefore a
unique document which does not have its equal in Victorian letters.
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