[Rarebooks] FS: William Wordsworth's SIGNED Copy of Ord's ENGLAND: A HISTORICAL POEM, 1834
Charles Agvent
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Tue Apr 27 09:55:33 EDT 2021
[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
in a Fine slipcase. (#014537) $5,000
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