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Poems
William Wordsworth, 1807
WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850). Poems, in Two Volumes. London: Woods & Innes for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills

First edition, first state, with "fnuction" in the last line of F1 in vol 2. This copy has the revised version of the a cancelled leaves in both volumes. Wise 8.

Two volumes, 12mo (156 x 91mm). Half-titles and errata leaf at end of first vol (a few leaves with minimal marginal dustsoiling). Contemporary green mottled calf gilt (wear at joints, spines sunned); custom box. Provenance: "Elizabeth Brooke" (signature dated 30 August 1807).

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