Author: WORDSWORTH William
Title: The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind. Edited from the Manuscripts with Introduction, Textual and Critical Notes by Ernest de Selincourt. THE ORIGINAL DE SELINCOURT EDITION WITH PROSPECTUS
Description: Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1926. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece and 6 plates of facsimiles (2 double-page); original terracotta buckram, backstrip with paper label printed in black, uncut, label moderately browned else a very good, bright, clean copy. With elegant personal bookplate on front paste-down, and spare label tipped in at end. A copy of the publisher's prospectus for De Selincourt's 'Poetical Works' is loosely inserted. Bright copy of the first appearance of the magisterial edition by the poet's finest editor.

Keywords: literature, wordsworth, william wordsworth, selincourt, ernest de selincourt, prelude


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