POETICAL WORKS

London: Edward Moxon, 1849-1851. 8 volumes. New and revised edition of seven volumes with the eighth volume printed in 1851 added. With a portrait frontispiece in the first volume. Small 8vo, very handsomely bound in full dark blue straight-grain oasis beautifully decorated on the spines with gilt tooling in compartments and on raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments and dated in another, double gilt fillet ruled on the covers, gilt stippled edges, gilt rolled turnovers, top edges gilt.. xliv,313; viii,349; xii,355; xii,372; xi,388; xiii,383; xiv,374. A handsome, gilt decorated set in very pleasing condition and showing very little evidence of use. A COMPREHENSIVE EDITION OF WORDSWORTH’S COLLECTED POEMS. Wordsworth holds an illustrious spot in the canon of Romantic poets, joined by men such as Keats and Coleridge, and his poems in this volume speak his genius for themselves. Within the pages of this volume the reader will find poems such as “The Excursion,” “The White Doe,” a collection of sonnets, and selections from MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. Wordsworth had a passionate love for all things of nature: “Knolls, rocks, and lakes, were his personal acquaintances, as it were, or rather his personal friends; and not a few trees, in different parts of the country, owe to his intercession their continued existence” (introductory essay). The stunning and elegant binding is a fitting encasement for his lovely, honest verse. Complete with a number of intricately engraved illustrations, this volume is a marvelous addition to any collection of Romantic poetry.