WORDSWORTH, William.

£4,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Poems, in two volumes. First edition, one of 500 copies, here in a richly decorated contemporary binding. The publication collects most of Wordsworth's best-remembered lyrics, including "Daffodils" ("I wandered lonely as a cloud..."), "The world is too much with us...", "Composed upon Westminster Bridge", "Scorn Not the Sonnet", "The Solitary Reaper", and his greatest ode, "Intimations of Immortality".This copy has the first state points, with the full stop after "Sonnets" in Volume I, page 103, and "function" misprinted "fnuction" in Volume II, page 98.

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