The poetical works of William Wordswoth

Half-title: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Added title page, engraved; title, "Wordsworth's Poetical Works" printed in convex above vignette; "London E. Moxon. Son. & Co: Dover Street" printed below vignette

Edition information apprears on title page in square brackets: [The only complete cheap edition.]

Frontispiece portrait of Wordsworth engraved by James H. Baker, unsigned, after the portrait by Margaret Gillies, with tissue guard

Publisher's device printed on title page

Publisher's address printed on title page varies according to date of publication: copy 1-5: "1 Amen Corner, Paternoster Row:"; copy 6-10: "Dorset Buildings, Salisbury Square."

Text in double columns

Vignette head- and tail-pieces throughout text

Issued without the "Prefatory Notice" by Rossetti; Rossetti, however, edited the contents

RBC Copy 1. Bound in green sand grain (C) cloth binding; bevelled boards; all edges gilt; front cover stamped in black and gilt: black rule borders with inner ornamental gilt frame enclosing black dot and fleur-de-lys pattern with "Wordsworth" in gilt rectangluar panel; back board: identical pattern, blind stamped with less ornate inner frame around dot and fleur-de lys pattern cloth; spine: "Wordsworth", "W.M. Rossetti" and "Moxon" in gilt rectangular panels on dot and fleur-de-lys pattern cloth with gilt ornamental rules at head and foot; brown endpapers; "Duncan Grant and Company, Printers, Edinburgh." printed at foot of p. 568; [2] pages of publisher's advertisements at end of text: page [1], illustrated, lists "Moxon's Popular Poets" series with 21 titles; "Moxon's Library Poets" series also mentioned; lacking tissue guard sheet; Dr. Reed suggests printing date of late 1875; cf. Reed A138.c.1. Gift of Mark L. Reed

RBC Copy 2. Bound in dark green morocco with bevelled boards; all edges gilt; gilt inner dentelles; front cover stamped in black: double black rule border with inner ornamental black frame around dot and fleur-de lys pattern cloth, center rectangular gilt panel with "Wordsworth" embossed; spine: decorated panels with raised bands, "Wordsworth" stamped in gilt; back cover: identical ornamental pattern and author panel but without gilt; white endpapers; "Duncan Grant and Company, Printers, Edinburgh." printed at foot of p. 568; Dr. Reed suggests printing date of mid-1847-late 1875; cf. Reed A138.c.2. Gift of Mark L. Reed

RBC Copy 3. Bound in reddish brown sand grain (C) cloth binding; bevelled boards; all edges gilt; front cover stamped in black and gilt: double rule black border with inner ornamental gilt frame enclosing black dot and fleur-de-lys pattern cloth with "Wordsworth" in gilt rectangluar panel; back board: identical pattern, blind stamped with less ornate inner frame around dot and fleur-de lys pattern cloth; spine: "Wordsworth", "W.M. Rossetti" and "Moxon" in gilt rectangular panels on dot and fleur-de-lys pattern cloth with gilt ornamental rules at head and foot; brown endpapers; "Duncan Grant and Company, Printers, Edinburgh." printed at foot of p. 568; [2] pages of publisher's advertisements before signed frontispiece plate; [8] pages of publisher's advertisements at end of text, including advertisements for "Moxon's Popular Poets" series with 21 titles and "Moxon's Library Poets"; notes in Dr. Reed's hand point out the absence of numbering on page 208 in addition to the stereo details of "Oems" on page 210 running title and the "b" signature on p. vii; Dr. Reed suggests printing date of late 1876; cf. Reed A138.d.1. Gift of Mark L. Reed

RBC Copy 4. Bound in green sand grain (C) cloth binding; bevelled boards; all edges gilt; front cover: stamped in gilt and black with four cherubs in corners, rule borders, "Moxon's- Popular-Poets" and "Edited-By-W-M-Rossetti" embossed in cloth in gilt rectangular panels, center oval polychrome onlay with multi-colored vignette of muse with lyre and floral elements, "Wordsworth" in convex gilt panel at top of oval, gilt ornaments and frame; "Illustrated" stamped in black below onlay; back board: stamped in blind with rule borders, center floral and lyre ornament, stamped "JL" for John Leighton at bottom ornament; spine: brown faux morocco over cloth with raised bands, "Wordsworth" and ornaments stamped in gilt; brown endpapers; frontispiece, signed, with tissue guard; "Duncan Grant and Company, Printers, Edinburgh." printed at foot of p. 568; lacks [2] pages of publisher's advertisements before text; [8] pages of publisher's advertisements at end of text, including advertisements for "Moxon's Popular Poets" series with 21 titles and "Moxon's Library Poets"; earliest binding seen with complete series name "Moxon's Popular Poems"; Dr. Reed suggests printing date of late 1876; cf. Reed A138.d.2. Gift of Mark L. Reed

RBC Copy 5. Bound in green fine sand grain (C) cloth binding; bevelled boards; all edges gilt; front cover: stamped in black and gilt: double rule black border with inner ornamental gilt frame enclosing black dot and fleur-de-lys pattern cloth with "Wordsworth" in gilt rectangluar panel; back board: identical pattern, blind stamped with less ornate inner frame around dot and fleur-de lys pattern cloth; spine: "Wordsworth", "W.M. Rossetti" and "Moxon" in gilt rectangular panels on dot and fleur-de-lys pattern cloth with gilt ornamental rules at head and foot; brown endpapers; "Duncan Grant and Company, Printers, Edinburgh." printed at foot of p. 568; [2] pages of publisher's advertisements before half title; signed frontispiece plate; [8] pages of publisher's advertisements at end of text, the first [4] pages of advertisements for E. Moxon, Son & Co., including the advertisement for "Moxon's Popular Poets" series with 21 titles and "Moxon's Library Poets"; the concluding [12] pages are advertisemts for Ward, Lock, and Tyler publications; notes in Dr. Reed's hand point out the absence of numbering on page 208 but "Poems" restored in running title on p. 210; Dr. Reed suggests printing date of mid-late 1877; cf. Reed A138.e.1. Gift of Mark L. Reed

RBC Copy 6. Bound in imitation vellum binding; all edges gilt; front and back boards: completely stamped with elaborate gilt decorations, gilt roundels of Wordsworth based on frontispiece portrait; spine: gilt decorations, "Wordsworth" in panel at head with ornamental urn at foot; white endpapers; unsigned frontispiece without tissue guard; "Duncan Grant and Company, Printers, Edinburgh." printed at food of p. 568; laid-in: dark blue textile bookmark; cf. Reed A138.f.1.1. Gift of Mark L. Reed

RBC Copy 7. Bound in deep blackish dark green morocco binding; bevelled boards; all edges gilt; both boards: stamped with black rule borders, inner frame with corner ornaments; front board stamped with embossed circlular prize stamp/supralibros: "Middle Class School Corporation Prize 1878"; marbled doublures with inner gilt dentelles; signed frontispiece; "Duncan Grant and Company, Printers, Edinburgh." printed at foot of p. 568; Dr. Reed suggests printing date of mid (July) 1878, confirmed by stamp on front cover; cf. Reed A138.f.1.2

RBC Copy 8. Bound in reddish brown sand grain (C) cloth binding; bevelled boards; all edges gilt; front cover stamped in black and gilt: double rule black border with inner ornamental gilt frame enclosing black dot and fleur-de-lys pattern cloth with "Wordsworth" in gilt rectangluar panel; back board: identical pattern, blind stamped with less ornate inner frame around dot and fleur-de lys pattern cloth; spine: "Wordsworth", "W.M. Rossetti" and "Moxon" in gilt rectangular panels on dot and fleur-de-lys pattern cloth with gilt ornamental rules at head and foot; brown endpapers; inscription date "29 June 1880" on front free endpaper; no printer identified in text; frontispiece tissue wanting; advertisements, 8 pages, undated, for books published by Ward, Lock and Co. followed by [14] pages, undated, illustrated for "Ward Lock, & Co.'s List of Juvenile Books" at end of text; Dr. Reed suggests printing date of 1879. cf. Reed A138.g.1.a.1.(smaller paper Moxon issue) Gift of Mark L. Reed

RBC Copy 9. Binding features of Ward, Lock issue but with integral Moxon title page: bound in brown diagonal fine rib grain (S) cloth binding; bevelled boards; all edges gilt; front cover stamped in black, gilt and cloth: black line and ornamental borders enclosing center gilt oval decoration of seated muse playing lyre with lettered border: "Moxon's Popular Poets Edited By W.M. Rossetti"; spine: black, gilt and cloth with lyre encircled by gilt border stamped in cloth "Moxon's Popular Poet's" with "Ward Lock & Co." at foot; back cover: stamped in blind with triple line border and large wreath-line roundel at center; endpapers printed in pale green with foliage pattern; stapled; title page variant: integral Moxon title page (London: E. Moxon, Son, & Company. Dorset Buildings, Salisbury Square); text and title page with red rule border with cross-and-dot corners; other stereo details: page 14: "POEMS" present in running title but with "EMS" slanting downward to right below line of "WRITTEN IN YOUTH"; irregular unprinted area on page 464; signature on page 497: "2 I" with 2 smaller and higher than I; no printer noted at foot of page 568; [2] pages advertisements with red rule border with fusil cross corners for "Moxon Poular Poets" listing 26 titles, followed by 8 pages with black line border for Ward Lock publications and [16] unnumbered pages of illustrated Ward, Lock "Juvenile Books" advertisements; Dr. Reed suggests printing date of 1881; cf. Reed A138.g.2 (large paper issues: (a Moxon) (b) Ward, Lock issue. Gift of Mark L. Reed

RBC Copy 10. Bound in black pebble grain leather binding; bevelled boards; all edges gilt; front and back covers stamped with gilt rule borders and rule border stamped in blind; spine: double gilt rules, raised bands; "Wordsworth's poetical works" at head, "Photographs" at foot; marbled endpapers; Eyre and Spottiswoode issue with added title page lettered in gilt "Poetical Works of William Wordsworth", E & S publisher's device in gilt, "London: Great New Street, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C." inserted before Moxon issue title page; red line border with dot-and-cross corners and Moxon title page and text; xiv, 568 pages, six plates of albumen mounted photographs, frontispiece plate with mounted oval Wordsworth photograph after Robert Hancock portrait; no printer noted page 568; small black leather and gilt binder's label for "H. & C. Treacher, Royal Library, Brighton" on upper corner of front pastedown; former owner's autorgraph: "John George Allen April 8th 1888" inscribed on front free endpaper; Dr. Reed suggests printing date of early 1880s. cf. Reed A138.g.2.b.1.1 (Eyre and Spottiswoode issue) Gift of Mark L. Reed