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Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems
by Wordsworth, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards and spine rubbed, worn, and heavily foxed. A 1" x 3/8" chip to paper at head of spine, and other smaller chips and abrasions to ends of spine and margins of boards. Heavy shelf rubbing to lower edges of boards. Paper split along lengths of joints. 1" split to gutter at front hinge. Some foxing to margins of leaves.; xv, [1], 349, [1] pages. Contemporary pastepaper boards with printed paper title label on spine. Page dimensions: 174 x 102mm. Collation: A6 a2 B-P12 Q7. "Errata and Emendations" printed on verso of leaf a2. No advertisements at rear. No errata slip. Upper edges of leaves uncut. The last collection of Wordsworth's poems to be published in his lifetime. Includes many sonnets. Selected poem titles: "Composed in Roslin Chapel, during a Storm"; "The Trosachs"; "Highland Hut"; "The Egyptian Maid; or, the Romance of the Water Lily"; "Roman Antiquities discovered, at Bishopstone, Herefordshire"; "Four fiery Steeds impatient of the Rein"; "The Black Stones of Iona"; "Steam-boats, Viaducts, and Railways". [Bibliographical references: Wise "A Bibliography [. . .] Wordsworth" (1916) - 23; Healey "Cornell Wordsworth Collection" (1957) - 86] Provenance: Ex Libris E. C. Simpson (bookplate). .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17800
- Title
- Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems
- Author
- Wordsworth, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1835
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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