Front cover image for Poems by William Wordsworth : including Lyrical ballads, and the miscellaneous pieces of the author. With additional poems, a new preface, and a supplementary essay. In two volumes

Poems by William Wordsworth : including Lyrical ballads, and the miscellaneous pieces of the author. With additional poems, a new preface, and a supplementary essay. In two volumes

Print Book, English, 1815
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster-Row, London, 1815
poetry
2 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm (8vo)
6852224
Three of the poems, Address to a child, The mother's return, and The cottager to the infant, are by Dorothy Wordsworth
"T. Davison, Lombard-street, Whitefriars, London"--Verso of each title page
Volume 1 frontispiece signed: "Engraved by J. C. Bromley, from a picture by Sir George Beaumont Bart." Volume 2 frontispiece signed: "Painted by Sir George Beaumont Bart. Engraved by S. W. Reynolds"
Volume 1: li pages, 1 unnumbered page, 375 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; volume 2: 2 unnumbered pages, 440, that is, 400 pages
"Errata and corrections" (for both volumes): unnumbered page 1 following page li in volume 1
Page xvii in volume 1 and pages 144, 383 and 400 in volume 2 misnumbered xvi, 145, 382 and 440 respectively
This edition exists in at least 2 states: in one state, volume 1 has signature letter "b" missing from the bottom of leaf b1 and leaves Q5-Q8 in volume 1 and leaf 2A6 in volume 2 are cancels; in the other state, the signature letter "b" is present and there are no cancels in either volume
HRC has a copy of each state