![[WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE (1772-1834)]. Lyrical Ballads. London: J. and A. Arch, 1798. Small 8° (158 x 91mm). (Some light spots and stains, without advertisement leaf at end.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, chipping to covers, corners rubbed). Provenance: Nellie Joseph (bookplate).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_09702_0209_000(wordsworth_william_and_samuel_taylor_coleridge_lyrical_ballads_london065835).jpg?w=1)
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[WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE (1772-1834)]. Lyrical Ballads. London: J. and A. Arch, 1798. Small 8° (158 x 91mm). (Some light spots and stains, without advertisement leaf at end.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, chipping to covers, corners rubbed). Provenance: Nellie Joseph (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, second issue of the small anthology which received such scant regard on first publication that Cottle, the Bristol bookseller, passed on most of the five hundred copies to Arch, who bound them up with a cancel title. Grolier English 66; Rothschild 2604; Wise Two Lake Poets p. 5.
FIRST EDITION, second issue of the small anthology which received such scant regard on first publication that Cottle, the Bristol bookseller, passed on most of the five hundred copies to Arch, who bound them up with a cancel title. Grolier English 66; Rothschild 2604; Wise Two Lake Poets p. 5.