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WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE (1772-1834). Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems . London: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. 2 volumes in one, 8° (155x96mm). With the blank in vol. I and errata in vol. 2. (Occasional minor spotting.) 19th-century burgundy morocco, spine richly gilt, sides with gilt border, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance : Henry Duke (engraved bookplate with manuscript signature).
WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE (1772-1834). Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems . London: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. 2 volumes in one, 8° (155x96mm). With the blank in vol. I and errata in vol. 2. (Occasional minor spotting.) 19th-century burgundy morocco, spine richly gilt, sides with gilt border, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance : Henry Duke (engraved bookplate with manuscript signature). A BRIGHT COPY. The second edition, the first to include Wordsworth's 40-page Preface: 'in effect THE REVOLUTIONARY MANIFESTO OF THE ROMANTIC POETS of the next generation' (PMM 256). This edition also adds a second volume of 42 new poems to those published in the first. T.S. Eliot wrote: 'Wordsworth is really the first, in the unsettled state of affairs in his time, to annex new authority for the poet, to meddle with social affairs, and to offer a new kind of religious sentiment which it seemed the peculiar prerogative of the poet to interpret' ( The Uses of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ). Volume II is here in first issue with ten lines on p.210. Ashley VIII, pp.6-9; Hayward 202; PMM 256; Rothschild 2603; Wise Wordsworth , 5.