[Rarebooks] FS: ENGLAND: A HISTORICAL POEM, Signed by William Wordsworth

[Charles Agvent]

One of many interesting 19th Century British Literary items on our 
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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. $5,000.00	

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