[Rarebooks] FS: The First Collected Edition of Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815

[Charles Agvent]

WORDSWORTH, William. POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: INCLUDING LYRICAL 
BALLADS, AND THE MISCELLANEOUS PIECES OF THE AUTHOR WITH ADDITIONAL 
POEMS, A NEW PREFACE, AND A SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY. London: Longman, Hurst 
et. al, 1815. First Edition. Two 5-1/4" x 8-1/4" volumes bound in period 
calf leather, rebacked with later brown morocco tooled and lettered in 
gilt, endpapers renewed. With an engraved frontispiece in each volume. 
The First Collected Edition of Wordsworth's poetry including the 
contents of LYRICAL BALLADS (1805) and POEMS (1807), often considerably 
revised, as well as a selection of new poems and a long new preface. 
With the final revised version of his famous “I Wandered Lonely as a 
Cloud.” Ink name of Henry Reed on front blank of second volume with 
several small ink corrections in the first volume. Likely the Henry Reed 
(1808-1854) who was a professor of English literature and vice provost 
of the University of Pennsylvania. Contents quite clean. Scuffing to 
covers, edges worn; each volume with front hinges cracked after the 
title or preliminaries; covers tight. Very Good. (#021659)        $2,000

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