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WORDSWORTH, William.
Poems, in two volumes.
Publisher: London, for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807
Stock code: 35345
Price: £4,500 Currency Conversion
First edition of one of the finest single-author collections of poems in English, containing most of Wordsworth's best-remembered lyrics: poems such as "To the Cuckoo", "To a Butterfly", "Daffodils" and "The Solitary Reaper"; political sonnets such as "Great men have been among us" and "To Toussaint L'Ouverture"; other sonnets no less famous such as "The world is too much with us" and "Composed upon Westminster Bridge", and his greatest ode, "There was a time" (after 1815 entitled "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood").
2 volumes, 12mo. Uncut in original boards, skilfully rebacked to style. Preserved in a full green morocco bookform pull-off case, spine lettered gilt. With half-titles and final erratum leaf in vol. I. Bookplates of Harry Newton. Boards rubbed, some spotting, uncut edges a little dusty, still a very good copy.
