Collation.-Vol. I. pp. xlviii, 313; Titles, Dedication, Advertisement, Preface to the Edition of 1815, and Contents, pp. i-xlviii; Poems, pp. 1-310; Notes, pp. 311313. Vol. II.-pp. viii, 351: Titles and Contents, pp. i-viii; Poems, pp. 1-302; Preface to "Lyrical Ballads," pp. 303-337; Appendix, pp. 339-345; Notes, pp. 347351. Vol. III. pp. xii, 355: Titles and Contents, pp. i-xii; Poems, pp. 1-313; Essay, supplementary to the Preface, pp. 315-352; Notes, pp. 353-355. Vol. IV.

pp. xi, 364: Title and Contents, pp. ixi; Poems, pp. 1-310; Postscript, Notes, etc., pp. 311-364. Vol. V.-pp. xi, 412: Titles and Contents, pp. i-xi; Poems, pp. 1-345; Postscript, 1835, pp. 347-373; Notes, pp. 375-388; Index to the Poems, pp. 389-396; Index to the First Lines, pp. 397-412. Vol. VI.—pp. xvii, 374: Titles, pp. i-iv; Dedicatory Sonnet, Preface, and Contents to The Excursion," pp. v-xvi;

Poem, pp. I-343; Notes (including "Essay on Epitaphs"), pp. 345-372. ("Errata leaves are inserted after Contents in Vols. I. and VI.)

Notes.-This Edition includes the poems published in 1835, in the Volume entitled, "Yarrow Revisited," etc. Vols. I. and II. are dated 1836; the remaining four 1837. The Edition was stereotyped, and reprinted in 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1846, 1849, etc., but there are a few slight variations of text, etc., from the 1836-37 Edition. The variations, however, do not warrant a separate description of their titles and contents. All the issues after 1841 include the Volume, "Poems of Early and Late Years," as Vol. VII., and after 1850 "The Prelude" was added, making an eighth volume.

The frontispiece to Vol. I. of this 1836-37 Edition is a steel engraved portrait of the Poet by Watt, from the painting by Pickersgill. It was repeated in the 1840, 1841, and following Editions.

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(In 1837 an American reprint of the poetical works of Wordsworth was published, edited by Professor Reed. It contained the poems issued in London in 5 vols. in 1827, and the contents of the Volume, 'Yarrow Revisited," etc., published in 1835. It was a Royal 8vo doublecolumn edition, and had a portrait from a painting by W. Boxall, After the Poet's death Professor Reed published a revised and complete Edition, which included not only the whole of the poems published by Wordsworth in 1849-50, but "The Prelude," and one or two pieces which have never been included in any other collective Edition of his works.)

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THE SONNETS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Collected in one volume, with a few additional ones, now first published. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1838. Fcap. 8vo. Cloth. Collation.--Pp. xi, 477; Title, Contents, etc., pp. i-xi; Text, pp. 1-448; Notes, pp. 449-477.

Note. This collective Edition of the Sonnets was reprinted, with an Essay on the History of the English Sonnet, by the late Archbishop Trench, in 1884. See No. 62.

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YARROW REVISITED; and Other Poems. By William Wordsworth. [Woodcut, Cupid with a Harp.] London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXXXIX. 18mo. Cloth.

Collation. Pp. xi, 249; Titles and Contents, pp. i-xi; Text, pp. 1-249.

Note. This Pocket Edition of Yarrow Revisited," etc., is the third separate issue of the Poem. It seems to have been intended as a supplementary volume to the four vol. Edition of 1832, as the sheets of it are all imprinted "Vol. V.," but I have no direct proof that it was ever so issued.

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POEMS, CHIEFLY OF EARLY AND LATE YEARS; including The Borderers, a Tragedy. By William Wordsworth. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1842. Fcap. 8vo. Cloth.

Collation.-Pp. xii, 405; Title and Contents, pp. i-viii; Prelude ("In desultory walk," etc.), pp. ix-xi; Erratum, p. xii; Advertisement, pp. 1-4; Poems, pp. 5397, Notes, pp. 399-405.

Notes. In the Advertisement the Author states that about one-third of the Poem "Guilt and Sorrow" was published in the year 1798, under the title of "The Female Vagrant," and was written in 1794. This volume, with an additional title, was added to the collected edition in 1843, and formed Vol. VII.

Notes, pp. 537-566; Appendix, Prefaces, etc., pp. 567-608; Index to Poems and Index to first lines, pp. 609-619.

Notes. This Edition was frequently republished; the Editions after 1850 or 1851 include "The Prelude," and the Edition of 1869 has nine additional poems" dated 1846. The addition of "The Prelude" and nine additional poems" increases the number of pages to 704. All copies contain an engraved portrait from the bust by Chantrey, and a Vignette Title-page containing a picture of Rydal Mount.

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ODE, performed in the Senate - House, Cambridge, on the sixth of July, M. DCCC. XLVII. At the first commencement after the Installation of his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, Chancellor of the University. Cambridge: printed at the University Press. 1847. 4to. Paper wrapper. Collation.-Pp. 8, including Title.

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THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, etc. etc. In six volumes. Vol I. [Vol. II., Vol. III., Vol. IV., Vol. V., Vol. VI.] A new Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. MDCCCXLIX. [—MDCCCL] 16m0.

Cloth.

Collation.-Vol. I.-pp. x, 299; Titles. Motto ("If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven") and Contents, pp. i-x; Poems, pp. 1-297; Notes, 298-299. Vol. II. pp. xii, 327; Titles and Contents, pp. i-xii; Poems, pp. 1-321; Notes, pp. 322-327. Vol. III. pp. xiv, 271; Titles and Contents, pp. i-xiv; Poems, pp. 1-238; Notes, pp. 239-271. Vol. IV. pp. xvi, 292; Titles and Contents, pp. i-xvi; Poems, pp. 1-272; Notes, pp. 273-292, and "additional note" on following leaf (unpaged). Vol. V.-pp. viii, 307: Titles and Contents, pp. i-viii; Poems, pp. 1-154; Notes, pp. 155-156; Appendix, Prefaces, etc., pp. 157-279; Index to Poems, pp. 281-290; Index to first lines, pp. 291-307. Vol. VI.-pp. vi, 301; Titles and Contents, pp. i-vi; Poem (** The

Excursion," with Dedicatory Sonnet and Preface), pp. 1-281; Notes, pp. 283-301.

Note.-Vols. I. and II. are dated 1849, and Vols. III.-VI., 1850. "The Excursion," forming the sixth volume of this Edition, was reprinted separately in 1851, 1853, and 1857.

[No. 41 is the last Edition issued during the poet's lifetime.]

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THE PRELUDE, or GrowTH OF A POET'S MIND; an Autobiographical Poem. By William Wordsworth. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1850. Demy 8vo. Cloth.

Collation.-Pp. x, 374; Titles, Advertisement, and Contents, pp. i-x; Text, pp. 1-372; Notes, pp. 373-4.

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THE PRELUDE, OR GROWTH OF A POET'S MIND; an Autobiographical Poem ; By William Wordsworth. Second Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1851. Fcap. 8vo. Cloth. Collation. Pp. x, 304; Titles, Advertisement, and Contents, pp. i-x; Text, pp. 1-302; Notes, pp. 303-4.

Note. This was issued uniform with the seven-volume Edition of the Poetical Works, and formed Vol. VIII.

[In 1854 Messrs. Little, Brown, and Co., of Boston, U.S.A., published an Edition of Wordsworth's Poetical Works in seven volumes, with a memoir (unsigned) by James Russell Lowell. This Edition was re-issued in 1880 in their series of "The British Poets." These, along with Professor Reed's Editions of 1837 and 1851, are the most satisfactory American Editions of the poems.]

I. [Vols. II.-VI.] A new Edition. London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1857. Fcap. 8vo. Cloth.

Collation.-Vol. I. pp. xii, 362; Titles, Advertisement, Motto, and Contents, pp. i-xii; Text, pp. 1-360; Notes, pp. 361-362. Vol. II. pp. xii, 377; Titles and Contents, pp. i-xii; Text, pp. 1-370, Notes, pp. 371-377. Vol. III.pp. xii, 368; Titles and Contents, pp. ixii; Text, pp. 1-328; Notes, pp. 329368. Vol. IV.—pp. xvi, 395; Titles and Contents, pp. i-xvi; Text, pp. 1-374; Notes, pp. 375-395. Vol. V. pp. viii, 368; Titles and Contents, pp. i-viii; Text, pp. 1-366; Notes, pp. 367-368. Vol. VI. -pp. vi, 454; Titles and Contents, pp. i-vi; Text, pp. 1-304; Notes, pp. 305322; Appendix, Prefaces, Indices, pp. 323454.

Notes. This Edition was reprinted in 1870 (and called "The Centenary Edition"), in 1881, and in 1882, on thick crown 8vo paper. In this Edition the Fenwick notes to the poems (notes dictated by the poet to Miss Fenwick) are first printed, and form the prefatory notes to the poems explained.

selection from the poems edited by Rev. R. A. Willmott, and published by the same firm in the same year.

POEMS

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OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Selected and Edited by Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. Illustrated with one hundred designs by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert, Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London: George Routledge and Co., Farringdon Street. New York: 18, Beekman Street, MDCCCLIX. Small 4to. Cloth. Collation.-Pp. xvi, 388; Frontispiece, Title, Preface, Contents, and List of Illustrations, pp. i-xvi; Poems, pp. 1-384; Notes, 385-388.

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THE WHITE DOE OF RYLSTONE; OR, THE FATE OF THE NORTONS. By William Wordsworth. [With Illustrations by H. N. Humphreys and Birket Foster.] London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1859. Small 4to.

Collation.-Pp. 165; Title, Introduction, Text, etc., pp. 1-156; Notes, pp. 157-165.

Note. This illustrated Edition of "The White Doe" was re-issued in a different form, in 1867, by Bell and Daldy. See No. 53.

done in a very haphazard sort of way. As an instance of the editor's discrimination I may mention that the immortal lines on "Tintern Abbey" are not included!

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MOXON'S MINIATURE POETS. A Selection from the Works of William Wordsworth, Poet Laureate. Selected and arranged by Francis Turner Palgrave. London: Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street. 1865. Sq. 12mo. Cloth.

Collation.-Pp. xxviii, 279. A steel portrait of the Poet from an original bust" faces title; Title and Preface, pp. ixxi; Contents, pp. xxiii-xxviii; Text, pp. I-279.

Note. This selection was re-issued in 1869; and, recently, in a small pocket Edition.

cheap Edition.] Edited, with a critical
Memoir, by William Michael Rossetti.
Illustrated by Henry Dell. London:
E. Moxon, Son, & Co., Dover Street.
N.D. Post 8vo. Cloth.

Collation.-Pp. xxiv, 568; Titles and Contents, pp. i-xiv; Prefatory Notice, pp. xv-xxiv; Poems, pp. 1-497; Notes, pp. 499-534; Appendix, Prefaces, etc., pp. 535-568.

Notes. There is an engraved portrait to this Edition. It is from one of the portraits of the poet by Miss Gillies. The engraving first appeared in Volume I. of The New Spirit of the Age, Edited by R. H. Horne. The date of the first publication of this Edition is not given, but it was 1870. It is a reprint, on smaller paper, of No. 54.

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THE PROSE Works of WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. For the first time collected, with additions from unpublished manuscripts. Edited, with Preface, Notes and Illustrations, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, St. George's, Blackburn, Lancashire. In three volumes. Vol. I. Political and Ethical. [Vol. II. Esthetical and Literary.] [Vol. III. Critical and Ethical.] London: Edward Moxon, Son, and Co., 1 Amen Corner, Paternoster Row. 1876. [All rights reserved.] Demy 8vo. Cloth.

Collation.-Vol. I. pp. xxxviii, 360; Titles, Dedication ("To the Queen;" with poem by Wordsworth not previously published), and Preface, pp. i-xxxviii; Contents, one leaf; Text, pp. 1-356; Notes and Illustrations, pp. 357-360. Vol. II.pp. iv, 347; Title and Contents, pp. i-iv; Text, pp. 1-341; Notes and Illustrations, PP. 343-347. Vol. III. pp. xii, 516; Titles and Contents, pp. i-xii; Text, pp. 1-504; Notes and Illustrations, pp. 505-516.

Note. There was also a private issue of this Edition printed on hand-made paper, with portrait, facsimiles, and autotype plates, of which there were only 112 copies.

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THE ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT as inter

preted in the Poems of Wordsworth By William Knight Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy in the University of St. Andrews Edinburgh David Douglas 1878. Fcap. 8vo. Cloth.

Collation.-Pp. xxiv, 248; Titles, Contents, and Preface, pp. i-xxiv; Text, pp. I-248.

Notes. This little book is an attempt to explain Wordsworth's numerous allusions, in his poems, to localities in the English Lake District. Nearly all the poems, or portions of poems, containing such allusions, are here given, with a mass of topographical detail. It may not inappropriately be included in this Bibliography, as it is a good collection of Wordsworth's pieces associated with the District.

Collation. Pp. xxxi, 325; Fly leaf (with motto), Title, and Preface, pp. i-xxvi ; Contents, xxvii-xxxi; Poems, pp. 1-317; Index of first lines, pp. 319-325.

Notes. In this admirable selection Mr. Arnold arranges the poems under the following headings:-Poems of Ballad Form; Narrative Poems; Lyrical Poems; Poems akin to the Antique, and Odes; Sonnets; Reflective and Elegiac Poems. It has been several times reprinted, and is still in print. There was a large paper Edition, of which a limited number were printed.