The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, with Life de William Wordsworth

Edinburgh and London: Gall & Inglis. in exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Demy Octavo, [29cm/7.5inches], fancy full gil, ivory and ebony embossed cloth sans dust jacket, pp. xx, 592. Illustrated with steel-engaved frontis and Title page. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850.

Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1111. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Not dated. Edition and printing not known. In very good brown leather boards with elaborate gilt tooling to front and rear; spine has gilt titles and five horizontal raised bands. The boards are tight, straight and clean. "The Clevedon Community Bookshop Co-operative Bindery Team" have re-glued the hinges, cleaned the leather; minimal repair made to spine. Stained yellow/brown end papers. Shiny gilt cut edges. The text block is in very good condition, tightly bound, flat; Prelims lightly tanned around the edges; page block clean. With 'eight engravings on steel', including frontispiece (with tissue guard) and on title page. No dedications etc.Without jacket.