WORDSWORTH, William - Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author with Additional Poems, a New Preface, and a Supplementary Essay

London, Longman, Hurst et. al, 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Two 5-1/4" x 8-1/4" volumes bound in period calf leather, rebacked with later brown morocco tooled and lettered in gilt, endpapers renewed. With an engraved frontispiece in each volume. The First Collected Edition of Wordsworth's poetry including the contents of LYRICAL BALLADS (1805) and POEMS (1807), often considerably revised, as well as a selection of new poems and a long new preface. With the final revised version of his famous “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” Ink name of Henry Reed on front blank of second volume with several small ink corrections in the first volume. Likely the Henry Reed (1808-1854) who was a professor of English literature and vice provost of the University of Pennsylvania. Contents quite clean. Scuffing to covers, edges worn; each volume with front hinges cracked after the title or preliminaries; covers tight. Very Good .

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