[Rarebooks] FS: Wordsworth's POEMS. First edition, 1st issue. 1807
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Wordsworth, William. POEMS. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. 1807.
12mo. (8),158,(2);(8),170pp. With both half-titles and the leaf of erratum at the
end of Volume 1. Finely bound by Tout (circa 1900) in full brown crushed
morocco with gold tooled dentelles and floral paper doublures and endleaves.
T.e.g. Margins untrimmed. Housed in a slipcase. $4,500.00 (trade discount
allowed)
The first edition, first issue, of the first collected edition of Wordsworth’
s poems. The first issue is identified with a period after “Sonnets” on p.
103 of Vol. 1 and the spelling “fnuction” on p. 98 of Vol. 2. With the cancel
leaves replacing the originals as is always found. See Wise. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH #8.
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