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POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: INCLUDING LYRICAL BALLADS, AND THE MISCELLANEOUS PIECES OF THE AUTHOR WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS, A NEW PREFACE, AND A SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY
by WORDSWORTH, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Contents quite clean. Scuffing to covers, edges worn; each volume with front hinges cracked after the title or preliminaries; co
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Longman, Hurst et. al, 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents quite clean. Scuffing to covers, edges worn; each volume with front hinges cracked after the title or preliminaries; covers tight. Very Good. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021659
- Title
- POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: INCLUDING LYRICAL BALLADS, AND THE MISCELLANEOUS PIECES OF THE AUTHOR WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS, A NEW PREFACE, AND A SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY
- Author
- WORDSWORTH, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Contents quite clean. Scuffing to covers, edges worn; each volume with front hinges cracked after the title or preliminaries; co
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Hurst et. al
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1815
- Keywords
- Romantic Poetry, 19th Century Literature, 19th Century Literature, William Wordsworth, Romantic Poets
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century Literature; 19th Century British Literature; Romantic Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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