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
William Wordsworth (Author), Henry and Hannah Hofheimer (Donor), Dorothy Wordsworth (Contributor), Thomas Davison (Printer), John Charles Bromley (Engraver), Samuel William Reynolds (Engraver), George Howland Beaumont (Illustrator), Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (Publisher)
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