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WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850) and Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE (1772-1834). Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems. London: T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800. 2 volumes in one, 8° (155x96mm). With the blank in vol. I and errata in vol. 2. (Occasional minor spotting.) 19th-century burgundy morocco, spine richly gilt, sides with gilt border, gilt edges (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Henry Duke (engraved bookplate with manuscript signature).
A BRIGHT COPY. The second edition, the first to include Wordsworth's 40-page Preface: 'in effect THE REVOLUTIONARY MANIFESTO OF THE ROMANTIC POETS of the next generation' (PMM 256). This edition also adds a second volume of 42 new poems to those published in the first. T.S. Eliot wrote: 'Wordsworth is really the first, in the unsettled state of affairs in his time, to annex new authority for the poet, to meddle with social affairs, and to offer a new kind of religious sentiment which it seemed the peculiar prerogative of the poet to interpret' (The Uses of Poetry and the Use of Criticism). Volume II is here in first issue with ten lines on p.210. Ashley VIII, pp.6-9; Hayward 202; PMM 256; Rothschild 2603; Wise Wordsworth, 5.
A BRIGHT COPY. The second edition, the first to include Wordsworth's 40-page Preface: 'in effect THE REVOLUTIONARY MANIFESTO OF THE ROMANTIC POETS of the next generation' (PMM 256). This edition also adds a second volume of 42 new poems to those published in the first. T.S. Eliot wrote: 'Wordsworth is really the first, in the unsettled state of affairs in his time, to annex new authority for the poet, to meddle with social affairs, and to offer a new kind of religious sentiment which it seemed the peculiar prerogative of the poet to interpret' (The Uses of Poetry and the Use of Criticism). Volume II is here in first issue with ten lines on p.210. Ashley VIII, pp.6-9; Hayward 202; PMM 256; Rothschild 2603; Wise Wordsworth, 5.