[Rarebooks] FS: William Wordsworth's copy of John Walker Ord's ENGLAND: A HISTORICAL POEM

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  [WORDSWORTH,  William]  ORD, John Walker.  ENGLAND:  A  HISTORICAL
POEM.  Volume  I.  London:  Simpkin and Marshal  et  al.  1834.  First
Edition.  Original brown cloth, recently rebacked retaining nearly all
of  the  original  spine; spine label mostly lacking.  A  Presentation
copy  INSCRIBED  by  the  author   on  the  front  blank:  "To/William
Wordsworth  Esq./with the author's/compliments." In addition this copy
is  SIGNED  by  the recipient on the title page:  "W  Wordsworth/Rydal
Mount."  In this volume, and in a second that was issued the following
year,  Ord  attempted a history of England in verse. His efforts  were
not  well  received. One reviewer in THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE  claimed
"that  the author has formed his manner and style too much on that  of
Lord  Byron  in exaggeration, impetuosity, and a  perpetual  straining
for  effect." A scarce book from Wordsworth's library. Old  bookseller
description  laid in. Housed in a new calf-backed slipcase with  cloth
chemise. Near Fine                                            $5000.00

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