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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 2 vols. Attractive half leather and marbled boards. First collected edition. Previous owner's signature in ink: "Geo: Coke. 1817." Raised bands on the spines with beautiful gilt designs in five of the compartments of each volume. One of the most important poets of the Romantic period and acknowledged as one of the greatest poets writing in the English language. Small chip on the bottom of the leather on the front cover of Vol. 1, otherwise Very Good. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1815.

London: Longman, Hurst et. al, 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents quite clean. Scuffing to covers, edges worn; each volume with front hinges cracked after the title or preliminaries; covers tight. Very Good. Two 5-1/4" x 8-1/4" volumes bound in period calf leather, rebacked with later brown morocco tooled and lettered in gilt, endpapers renewed. With an engraved frontispiece in each volume. The First Collected Edition of Wordsworth's poetry including the contents of LYRICAL BALLADS (1805) and POEMS (1807), often considerably revised, as well as a selection of new poems and a long new preface. With the final revised version of his famous “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” Ink name of Henry Reed on front blank of second volume with several small ink corrections in the first volume. Likely the Henry Reed (1808-1854) who was a professor of English literature and vice provost of the University of Pennsylvania.