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London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees & Orme, 1807. First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, original drab boards with pink paper-covered spines as issued. First edition of Wordsworth's single greatest collection of poetry, one of 500 copies printed; with the cancels D11-12 in Vol. I and B2 in Vol. II. Volume I has the half-title and the erratum leaf H8. Volume II has the half-title, the sectional half-title leaf B1, and the first state of sheet F9(i) in volume 2 (with the misprint "Thy fnuction" on page 98, last line). Wise 8. Tinker 2334. Ashley 8:12-14. Healey 19 (locating just six copies in original boards). Cornell/Healey 19-21. Wordsworth's Poems includes many of the poet's most beloved poems, including "She was a Phantom of delight", "To A Skylark", "Resolution and Independence", "The world is too much with us...", "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free", "The Solitary Reaper", "My heart leaps up when I behold...", "I wandered lonely as a cloud...", and the last, but certainly not the least, poem in… Read More

London: J. & A. Arch, 1798; T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. FIRST EDITION, Second (London) Issue of first volume; FIRST EDITION, First State of the second volume (p. 209 with last word of footnote in the middle of the page; p. 210 with 10 lines only; p. 211 with 19 lines, ending with "he thought again"; p. 212 with 19 lines, beginning with "And his heart fail'd him"). 175 x 105 mm. (6 3/4 x 4 1/8"). Two volumes.. LOVELY CRIMSON CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY FRANCIS BEDFORD (stamp-signed on front turn-ins), covers with French fillet border, raised bands, spine compartments with distinctive urn-and-bird centerpiece surrounded by small tools, leafy cornerpieces, gilt titling, densely gilt turn-ins, dark green endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Front pastedowns with engraved bookplate of Harold Greenhill; from the collection of Bradley Martin (his sale, Sotheby's New York, 1 May 1990, lot 3333). Ashley VIII, 5-8; Hayward 202 (Bristol imprint); Grolier English 66; PMM 256 (the second edition,… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1879. ROBERT BROWNING'S COPY given to him by the editor, Matthew Arnold. With an engraved portrait on the titlepage. 8vo, original dark green cloth by Burn Co., spine lettered in gilt and with gilt emblem on the upper cover, now in a fine clamshell case. (xxxi), 317, (4) pp. A very nice copy with just a bit of expected mellowing, especially to the extremities. A MARVELOUS ASSOCIATION. ROBERT BROWNING’S COPY WITH MANUSCRIPT PRESENTATION FROM THE EDITOR, MATTHEW ARNOLD. The works of one the greatest poets of the early 19th century given to one of the greatest poets of the latter 19th century by another great literary figure of the period. This copy, in bright and fresh original cloth, would be desirable on its own right, the association however makes this a truly wonderful and unique copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1910-11. They perish; but the Intellect can raise / From airy words alone a pile that ne'er decays The "Large-Paper Edition", number 42 of 500 sets, with an autograph manuscript poem signed and dated by Wordsworth window-mounted and bound after the half-title in the first volume. This set is extra-illustrated with ten hand-coloured plates bound before the frontispieces. The manuscript quotes the last four lines from "Inscriptions For a Seat in The Groves of Coleorton": "Communities are lost and Empires die / And things of holiest use unhallowed lie; / They perish; but the Intellect can raise / From airy words alone a pile that ne'er decays. Wm Wordsworth Rydal Mount Nov. 7th 1837." The poem was written in 1806, while Wordsworth was a guest at Coleorton Hall, the seat of his friend Sir George Beaumont (1753-1827). It was first published in Poems (1815), and is printed in the present set (vol. V, p. 238). The photogravure plates were based on photographs taken by the… Read More

London: Edward Moxon, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original brown cloth with a leaf of ads at the end followed by an additional collective title page and half-title page, allowing the book to form the seventh and final volume of the 1836-7 edition of Wordsworth's POETICAL WORKS. Wordsworth's last collection of new work, and somewhat scarce. This is a Presentation copy INSCRIBED by the poet on the front pastedown: "Herbert Hill/from/the Author/April 1842." Herbert Hill married Robert Southey's daughter, Bertha, in 1839 and was a neighbor of Wordsworth's living with his wife in John Fleming's cottage in Rydal. Hill served as tutor for Matthew Arnold. Both Hill and Wordsworth attended Southey's funeral in March 1843 after which Wordsworth was selected to replace Southey as England's Poet Laureate. Rebacked some time ago with nearly all of the original spine but for the tips retained. An engraved portrait of the author is laid down on the verso of the front free endpaper.

Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1802. First American Edition. Hardcover. Wharton's name neatly excised on the blank margins of two text pages. Some staining on a few pages at the rear. Very Good or better and quite scarce. Two volumes bound in one in contemporary calf recently rebacked. The First American Edition printed from the Second London Edition and including the first printing of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in America. Shaw & Shoemaker, 3593. This copy sold at the George H. Conley sale, 12 January 1911, lot #1623. Armorial bookplate of William Richards Castle on the front pastedown and pencil signature on the front endpaper dated 1907 of American poet Alan Seeger who, as a member of the French Foreign Legion, was killed in action 4 July 1916 on the Somme at the age of 28. Seeger's poem, "I Have a Rendevous with Death," was the most popular and widely-quoted American poem of World War I. In 1907 Seeger was a freshman at Harvard, and Castle's son was finishing his doctoral… Read More

Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1911. ONE OF 200 COPIES ON PAPER (and 12 on vellum). 235 x 165 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/2"). 230 pp., [1] leaf. FINE RED CRUSHED MOROCCO BY FRIEDA THIERSCH (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), covers with double gilt fillet border, raised bands, double gilt-ruled compartments, gilt titling, turn-ins with gilt French fillet, all edges gilt. In the matching morocco-lipped marbled paper slipcase lined with fleece. Printed in red and black. Front flyleaf with tiny oval "E K" stamp of Ernst Kyriss. Tidcombe DP-25; Tomkinson, p. 56. ◆AN EXTRAORDINARILY FINE, EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT COPY, little changed from the day it left the bindery. This is an excellent example of the fine printing produced by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker at the Doves Press and the fine work done by Frieda Thiersch, the German binder who had trained with the former head of the Doves Bindery, Charles McLeish. That master artisan wrote of his pupil, "Miss Thiersch became the most skillful pupil we ever had and we… Read More

London: Longman, Rees , Orme, Brown, Green and Longman and Edward Moxon, 1835. First edition. [xvi], 349, [1, blank], [4, ads] pp. Half-title. 1 vols. 12mo. Presentation binding of red morocco gilt, edges gilt (rubbed at extremities). Provenance: William Lowther (1787-1872), second Earl of Lonsdale (bookplate); William W. Gay (bookplate, note laid-in). First edition. [xvi], 349, [1, blank], [4, ads] pp. Half-title. 1 vols. 12mo. Presentation Copy to the Earl of Lonsdale. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the publishers "From the Author" on the half-title and in a presentation binding. A fine provenance: sonnets XLII and XLIII (pp. 228-9) are addressed to the book's recipient: "Lowther! in thy majestic pile are seen Cathedral pomp and grace ..." "Wordsworth dedicated his 'Excursion' to the second earl in 1814, subsequently inscribed to him a sonnet upon the Lowther motto 'magistratus indicat virum' and constantly wrote of him to Samuel Rogers and other friends in terms of the highest regard" (DNB).… Read More

London: Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees ... by Biggs ad Cottle, 1802. Third edition. [iv], lxiv, [2], 200, [4]; [iv], 250 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. 19th-century half red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered. Rubbed, with some scuffing to spines. Contemporary ownership signatures to front paste-down. Bookplate. Third edition. [iv], lxiv, [2], 200, [4]; [iv], 250 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. The rare second two-volume edition of Lyrical Ballads. With several important changes from the 1800 edition - the Preface is expanded by 20 pages, Coleridge's "The Dungeon" and Wordsworth's "A Character" and "Lines Written Near Richmond" are withdrawn, and the appendix on poetic diction is included for the first time. Healey 12 & 13; Tinker 2332

London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees. Very Good+. 1800. First Complete Edition. Hardcover. A very dark green leather and marbled boards. Titled red leather labels to the spine. All page edges gilt. Newer plain endpapers. 2 volumes. XLvi, 210, [5] and 227 plus a single page of errata. First Complete Edition with the first volume being the Second Edition and which includes his important Preface (the manifesto of the romantic poets) , published here for the first time. Five pages of Notes at the end. A First Edition, first state of volume two with page 209 having the last word of footnote in the middle of the page; page 210 with 10 lines only; page 211 with 19 lines, ending with "he thought again"; page 212 with 19 lines, beginning with "And his heart fail'd him". In volume one there is some gentle waviness or rippling to the pages along the lower edges. When the covers are closed this is imperceptible and really quite minor. There is also a faint stain that affects the… Read More

London: Simpkin and Marshal et al., 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. 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.

Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1911. ONE OF 200 COPIES ON PAPER (and 12 on vellum). 235 x 165 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/2"). 230 pp., [1] leaf. RUSSET CRUSHED MOROCCO BY THE DOVES BINDERY (stamp-signed and dated 1912 on rear turn-in), covers with simple gilt fillet border, raised bands, gilt-ruled compartments, gilt titling, turn-ins with two gilt rules, all edges gilt, with two rows of gauffered dots. Printed in red and black. Front pastedown with bookplate of Haven O'More of The Garden Ltd. Tidcombe DP-25; Tomkinson, p. 56. ◆Spine gently sunned, leather with (naturally occurring) variations in hue, covers with a score of tiny dark spots, but the binding showing no signs of wear. A few trivial imperfections in the text, but a fine copy internally, clean, fresh, and bright. An excellent example of the fine printing and fine binding produced under the aegis of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, this is a Doves Press book highly sought after both because of its limited press run and its content, which Cobden-Sanderson… Read More

London: Longman & Rees, 1802. hardcover. very good(+). 2 volumes. Small 8vos, contemporary smooth calf-backed marbled boards; leather spine labels. London: T.N. Longman & O. Rees, 1802.<br/> <br/> Third edition of Volume I, and second edition of Volume II. The half-title to volume I is bound in after the Preface. Short marginal tears on 2 leaves, otherwise fine, with minimal foxing. The 1802 edition differs from the 1800 first edition in several ways, including a greatly expanded Preface, and poems both added & removed.<br/> <br/>

London: James Ballantyne & Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1815, 1815. FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., 10-3/8" x 8-5/8", inscribed on the half-title by Wordsworth "To his friend/Francis Merewether/April 26 1821", engraved frontispiece by J.C. Bromley after Sir George Beaumont, bound in 1/2 tan morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, gilt lettered red and green morocco spine labels, edges tinted red, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine fine, some offsetting to title-page otherwise internally clean and bright, a VERY GOOD copy. Francis Merewether, the rector of Cole Orton in Leicestershire, was a High Church priest and a prolific pamphleteer, and is perhaps best known as a close friend of William Wordsworth. Wordsworth provided him with presentation copies of his books, many of which are still extant.

5 July 1815. Framed Manuscript. Not examined out of the frame but appears to be Fine. A one-page (8" x 10") lengthy AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED by Wordsworth from a poem by Fulke Greville (Lord Brooke), a contemporary and friend of poet Philip Sidney. In full: "The chief use, then in Man of that he knows Is his painstaking for the good of all; Not fleshly weeping for our own made woes, Not laughing from a melancholy gall, Not hating from a Soul that overflows In bitterness, breathed forth from inward thrall; But sweetly rather to ease, loose, or bind, As need requires, this frail, fallen human kind. Lord Brooke./Peter House July 5th 1815/Wm Wordsworth."… Read More

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row; And Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1835. First edition. Presentation copy to the poet's patron, William Lowther, the Earl of Lonsdale, inscribed "From The Author" on the half-title page. With the bookplate of the recipient's descendant Hugh Cecil, Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, on the front endsheet, & with the Lonsdale coat of arms on the front cover of the binding. Sonnet 43 on p. 229 is dedicated "To The Earl of Lonsdale"; & the recipient of the poem "Lines Written in the Album of the Countess of _______ Nov. 5, 1834" on p. 237 is identified by a pencil annotation in the blank as "Lonsdale". Wordsworth's great long poem, "The Excursion" (1814) was dedicated to William, Earl of Lonsdale, Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland & Westmorland, whom Wordsworth supported politically on numerous occasions, but particularly in the election of 1818, in which Wordsworth published Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmorland, "which helped seal the fate… Read More

Grasmere, 1808. 2 pp; addressed on intergral blank; wax seal. 12mo. Bifolium. Old folds, tear from seal. 2 pp; addressed on intergral blank; wax seal. 12mo. On the orphans of George and Sarah Green. "I have just received your obliging letter informing me of the Collection which by your means has been made for our Grasmere Orphans. I thank you sincerely for your kind and successful exertions in their behalf.... It will be a satisfaction to you to hear, that we have raised as much money as we think we shall have occasion for, and that there is every prospect that it will be of substantial service to the Children. ... My sister joins with me in respectful remembrances to yourself and his Lordship...." The Grasmere orphans were the eight children of local cottagers George and Sarah Green, who died on March 19 in an accident on the snow-covered fells between Langdale and Easedale. One of the children, Sally, was already in the Wordsworth's service, and the Wordsworths undertook a relief effort on the… Read More

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. First edition. With cancels D11 in volume I and B2 in volume II. [iii]-[viii], 158; [iii]-[viii], 170 pp. Bound without half titles. 2 vols. 12mo (6-7/8 x 4-3/8 inches 172 x 113 mm.). Quarter speckled calf over marbled boards. Fine. First edition. With cancels D11 in volume I and B2 in volume II. [iii]-[viii], 158; [iii]-[viii], 170 pp. Bound without half titles. 2 vols. 12mo (6-7/8 x 4-3/8 inches 172 x 113 mm.). 'We will grieve not, rather find / Strength in what remains behind'. 'All bright and glittering in the smokeless air' Wordworth's 1807 Poems presents a large number of first appearances of his best known works, and indeed, some of the most enduring poems of the English language: "Resolution and Independence"; "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" "Ode to Duty"; "The Solitary Reaper"; "Elegiac Stanzas"; "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"; "London, 1802"; "The world is too much with us"; and, finally, "Ode: Intimations of… Read More

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. First Edition. First Edition. Two volumes. Bound in attractive full brown crushed morocco with single fillet embossed ruling at edges, gilt ruled lines on side edges, gilt lettering to spine, dentelles nicely decorated in gilt design, gorgeous all-over floral patterned paper doublures, as well as lined front fly, by TOUT. With half-titles, fly titles, errata leaf at the end of volume I, and with the cancel leaves in both volumes, per usual. THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, of the first collected edition of Wordsworth's poems. With a period after "Sonnets" on p. 103 of vol. I, and "fnuction" spelling on p. 98 in vol. II. Fine condition. All you could hope for in this splendid copy of one of Wordsworth's most sought-after books, containing a large number of first appearances of some of his greatest poems.

Philadelphia:: Printed and Sold by James Humphreys,, 1802. . First American edition, from the London Second Edition.. old (contemporary) full calf; gilt paneled spine.. There are a few tiny chips at the top corners of the spines; but a very attractive set, handsomely bound.. 16mo,.