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The poetical works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (Author), Edward Moxon (Publisher), Henry William Pickersgill (Artist), William Henry Watt (Engraver), Mark L. Reed (Former owner), Bradbury & Evans (Printer), J.W. Mason & Son (Bookseller)
Print Book, English, 1849
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Edward Moxon, London, 1849
Engravings
7 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 18 cm
868028473
Vol. 1. Poems referring to the period of childhood. Poems written in youth. Poems founded on the affections. The waggoner
v. 2. Poems of the fancy. Poems of the imagination. Peter Bell. Poems on the naming of places
v. 3. Miscellaneous sonnets, part I-II. Memorials of a tour in Scotland. 1803. Memorials of a tour in Scotland. 1814. Sonnets dedicated to liberty, part I-II. Thanksgiving ode. Inscriptions. The Egyptian maid
v. 4. The river Duddon. The white doe of Rylstone. Itinerary sonnets. Ecclesiastical sonnets, part I-III
v. 5. Poems of sentiment and reflection. Yarrow revisited &c. Sonnets composed or suggested during a tour in Scotland, 1833. Evening voluntaries. Poems referring to the period of old age. Epitaphs and elegiac pieces
v. 6. Poems chiefly of early and late years. Memorials of a tour in Italy. Sonnets upon the punishment of death. Miscellaneous sonnets. The borderers. Index
v. 7. The excursion
Half-titles
Volume one has frontispiece plate portrait of Wordsworth, with thin paper guard sheet, by H.W. Pickersgill, steel engraving by W.H. Watt, "London, Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1836"--Printed at foot of plate
"Index to the poems" and "Index to the first lines": volume 6, p. [361]-384
RBC Copy: Bound in fine blackish brown rib grain (T) cloth; both covers stamped in blind with a pair of straight line borders with mitred corners enclosing center border design of vines and leaves; spine stamped in gilt; white end papers; vol. 1: publisher's unopened 8 p. catalog, "A List of Books," dated "May, 1853" inserted before half-title; bookseller's label "J.W. Mason & Son" at foot of front pastedown; front free end-paper inscribed: "John S. Warren from E.C.O. May 1854"; laid-in: glossy postcard with portrait of Wordsworth printed in brown and white