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Rare and modern books

Wordsworth William

The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind. Edited from the Manuscripts with Introduction, Textual and Critical Notes by Ernest de Selincourt. THE ORIGINAL DE SELINCOURT EDITION WITH PROSPECTUS

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1926

98.90 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1926
Author
Wordsworth William
Publishers
Clarendon Press, Oxford
Keyword
literature, wordsworth, william wordsworth, selincourt, ernest de selincourt, prelude
Languages
English

Description

8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece and 6 plates of facsimiles (2 double-page); original terracotta buckram, backstrip with paper label printed in black, uncut, label moderately browned else a very good, bright, clean copy. With elegant personal bookplate on front paste-down, and spare label tipped in at end. A copy of the publisher's prospectus for De Selincourt's 'Poetical Works' is loosely inserted. Bright copy of the first appearance of the magisterial edition by the poet's finest editor.