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First Edition. Two volumes. Bound in attractive full brown crushed morocco with single fillet embossed ruling at edges, gilt ruled lines on side edges, gilt lettering to spine, dentelles nicely decorated in gilt design, gorgeous all-over floral patterned paper doublures, as well as lined front fly, by TOUT. With half-titles, fly titles, errata leaf at the end of volume I, and with the cancel leaves in both volumes, per usual. THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, of the first collected edition of Wordsworth's poems. With a period after "Sonnets" on p. 103 of vol. I, and "fnuction" spelling on p. 98 in vol. II. Fine condition. All you could hope for in this splendid copy of one of Wordsworth's most sought-after books, containing a large number of first appearances of some of his greatest poems.

Published in 1807, 'Poems, in Two Volumes' includes some of Wordsworth's most famous shorter poems, including 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'.