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ISBN 10: 1019010347 ISBN 13: 9781019010341
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Gebunden. Zustand: New.
Verlag: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme., London, 1807
Anbieter: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
2 vols bound together. pp. (viii), 158, errata leaf, (vi), 170. 12mo. Later blue morocco, later endpapers, top edge gilt, spine darkened, lacking half title Vol 2. Wordsworth's signature tipped in on inner front board. 1st edition, 1st state with Vol 1 p. 122 'forlorn:' and Vol 2 p. 98 'fnuction'. Wise p. 59; Reed A8.
Verlag: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees & Orme, London, 1807
Anbieter: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, USA
Erstausgabe
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 the collection, Wordsworth's great "Ode", since known by its longer title "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood". Contemporary ownership inscription to Anne Watson in Vol. I, with her pencil ownership signature on the title-page; bookplates of Simon Nowell-Smith and his wife. Light foxing, covers slightly chipped and worn, but a very good set.
Verlag: Printed [by Wood & Innes, Poppin's Court, Fleet Street] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme. 1807, 1807
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Half titles, final erratum leaf vol. I. Sympathetically bound in 20thC half tan calf, marbled boards, spines ruled & with devices in gilt, black & maroon labels. A v.g. clean & attractive copy. Wise (8). This keenly anticipated collection of poems was Wordsworth's first new publication since the second volume of Lyrical Ballads appeared in 1800. It included many of his best-known and most celebrated poems, including 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' (untitled in its original version, simply appearing in Volume II as poem '7' in a section titled Moods of My Own), 'To a Butterfly', and 'The Solitary Reaper'. Now considered as one of the defining collections of the early Romantic period, it suffered at the hands of contemporary critics, with Byron offering the particularly harsh estimation of 'puerile'.
Verlag: James Humphreys, Philadelphia, 1802
Anbieter: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. First American Edition. 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 studies there. Also an early owner inscription on the front blank to Ann Wharton from "C. H. W." Volume 1, page 96 misnumbered "78"; volume 2, page 96 misnumbered "57." 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.
Verlag: London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815-1819-1819, 1819
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. First edition of his first collected works, including previously unpublished poems alongside pieces which Wordsworth heavily revised for this publication. The edition is also notable for its preface, which contains his "most extensive discussion of the imagination and of imaginative poetry" (Hodgson, p. 273). This set has been attractively bound with two later works, Peter Bell and The Waggoner. Wordsworth saw his first anthology as his moment to assert the literary unity of his canon and cement his name among the annals of great British poets. Towards this end, he devised a new scheme of poetic organization, in which poems are grouped into categories such as "Poems of the Fancy" and "Poems Founded on the Affections" according to "the power of mind predominant in their production" (ibid.) Anticipating criticism, Wordsworth defends this plan in a lengthy preface and essay which are notorious amongst critics and scholars, whose prevailing consensus is that this scheme is less systematic than idiosyncratic. Regardless, the great importance Wordsworth placed on the arrangement of the poems was fundamental in shaping the edition, upon which he hoped his legacy and national image would be judged. Volume I is bound with Peter Bell in the second edition, called for a fortnight after the first due to intense public demand. Wordsworth originally wrote this piece in 1798 but excluded it from his Lyrical Ballads. News of the impending publication of Peter Bell in 1819 reached John Hamilton Reynolds, who caused a public spectacle by rushing out a pastiche of the work before it had appeared. Wordsworth released his highly anticipated original one week later and saw "his most immediate sales success" (Gill, p. 332). He then swiftly published another earlier poem, The Waggoner, which he first composed in 1806; its first edition is bound into the second volume. Cornell Wordsworth Collection 30, 47, 49; Patton, pp. 8-12; Reed A13, A24b, A25; Wise, Bibliography 11, 16-17; Wise, Two Lake Poets, pp. 17-19, 21-2. Stephen Gill, William Wordsworth: A Life, 1990; John A. Hodgson, "Poems of the Imagination, Allegories of the Imagination: Wordsworth's Preface of 1815 and the Redundancy of Imaginative Poetry", Studies in Romanticism, vol. 27, no. 2, Summer 1988, pp. 273-88. Three works in two vols, octavo (209 x 126 mm). Near-contemporary diced calf, spines with two green labels and elaborate floral tooling in compartments, covers bordered with twin gilt fillet and a foliate roll, board edges and turn-ins decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. With 2 copper engravings by John Charles Bromley and an aquatint by Samuel William Reynolds as frontispieces, all after Sir George Beaumont. Bookplate of Plymouth Iron Company in each volume, overlaid in the first with the bookplate of the Fothergill family, who acquired the company in 1862; hand-inked monograph of one A.J.C. on front free endpapers verso. Spines lightly and uniformly sunned, a little rubbing, usual oxidization of plates, sporadic light foxing. A near-fine set.