Poems of William Wordsworth
London: George Routledge & Co., 1859. Later edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. [14], 1-387, [3] pp. Glazed contemporary purple pebble-grain cloth over beveled-edge boards with several gold and black borders and gold decorations on the boards, brilliant gold decorations to the turn-ins, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and decorations; all edges gilt. Beautiful textured blue, white, and gold endpapers and pastedowns. The bookbinder's ticket of Henry Miller of New York on the rear pastedown. With a frontispiece and in-text designs (100 wood engravings total) by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert, engraved by the brothers Dalziel. Selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott. Reed A110. Spawn & Kinsella 208-209. One of many collections of Wordsworth's poetry that have been published over the centuries, but this is the first edition thus of Routledge's profusely illustrated volume of the Romantic poet's work. Very Good or better. Item #000013119
A later bookplate on the front pastedown, scattered foxing to the textblock.
Price: $250.00