Wordsworth (William) [& Samuel Taylor Coleridge.] Lyrical Ballads, 2 vol., vol.1 third edition, vol.2 second edition, vol.1 lacking D2-4 (pp.51-56), light foxing, a few small stains, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spines, two new labels, 1802 § Blair (Hugh) Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, ?first American edition, Brisbane of Brisbane bookplate, later half calf, a little rubbed, cloth boards damp-stained, spine faded, Philadelphia, Robert Aitken, 1784; and c.55 others, literature, including a sixth edition of Johnson's Dictionary of 1785 in a modern binding, v.s. (c.60)
⁂ The third edition of vol.1 of Lyrical Ballads expands the famous Preface from 40pp. in the second edition to 64pp. in which Wordsworth defines his ideas on poetry, regarded as the beginning of the Romantic movement.
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