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WORDSWORTH, William.
Poems, in two volumes.
Publisher: London, for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807
Stock code: 35158
Price: £3,250 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" and "To a Butterfly"; "Daffodils" of course, 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 bound in one, 12mo, with the final erratum leaf in vol. I, without half-titles. Contemporary tree calf, perhaps American, smooth spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. Early ownership of F. Bissell on front free endpaper; engraved book label of the Trumbull Library (both these Connecticut names). Two corners just worn, an excellent copy.
