The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind; an Autobiographical Poem.

£450 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Published three months after Wordsworth’s death the poem was intended to be the prelude to “The Recluse” which the poet never finished. A very good copy, spine and boards partially sunned, head and tail caps a little rolled and scuffed. Owners book plate to front paste down, with some foxing to the final pages.

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