WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman...and Edward Moxon 1835. 12mo, contemporary black calf gilt, marbled edges, joints and corners slightly worn. FIRST EDITION, with the half-title but lacking the final two leaves of advertisements and without the inserted errata-slip, PRESENTATION COPY TO WORDSWORTH'S SECRETARY, inscribed by the poet on the half-title: "John Carter as a token of faithfull esteem and regard from Wm Wordsworth." Healey 86. "...John Carter was engaged [in 1813] to act as secretary and accountant and also...as part-time gardener at Rydal Mount. He remained with the Wordsworths for more than forty years, and became a very useful confidential servant; he was employed by Wordsworth in copying poems as well as business letters..."--Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth...The Later Years, 1803-1850 (Oxford, 1965), p. 245.

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WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman...and Edward Moxon 1835. 12mo, contemporary black calf gilt, marbled edges, joints and corners slightly worn. FIRST EDITION, with the half-title but lacking the final two leaves of advertisements and without the inserted errata-slip, PRESENTATION COPY TO WORDSWORTH'S SECRETARY, inscribed by the poet on the half-title: "John Carter as a token of faithfull esteem and regard from Wm Wordsworth." Healey 86. "...John Carter was engaged [in 1813] to act as secretary and accountant and also...as part-time gardener at Rydal Mount. He remained with the Wordsworths for more than forty years, and became a very useful confidential servant; he was employed by Wordsworth in copying poems as well as business letters..."--Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth...The Later Years, 1803-1850 (Oxford, 1965), p. 245.