The poems of William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth, Edward Moxon (Publisher), Henry William Pickersgill (Artist), Thomas Creswick, T. H. Ellis, Mark L. Reed (Former owner), Bradbury & Evans (Printer), Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge) (Associated name)
rare books
xxiv, 704 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : portrait ; 25 cm
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"London: Bradbury and Evans, printers ..."--Title page verso
Added engraved t.p. with date 1847; vignette of Rydal Mount signed T. Creswick, R.A., and T.H. Ellis
Frontispiece portrait of Wordsworth, with date 1851, engraved by J. Skelton after H.W. Pickersgill, R.A
Text in double columns
A split double painting on the fore-edge of the vol. When the leaves are fanned one way, a view of a college town is displayed; when fanned the other way two paintings of college buildings are displayed
RBC copy 1: bound in 2 volumes; added title page removed and used as t.p. of v. 2. Binding: tan calf with double fillet gold-tooled border; marbled endpapers and edges; spine title: Wordsworth's poetical works. Binder's stamp on verso of front free endpapers: "Morrell binder." Illustrated bookplate on front pastedowns: "Castle Point / Salcombe [Devon]."
RBC copy 2: green morocco armorial binding; arms on both covers: "Coll Christi Cant."; decorated and lettered in gilt; decorated turnins; spine title: Wordsworth's poetical works. Stamp on front pastedown: "Bound by Wiseman." Inscribed on recto of first prelim. leaf: "Thomas Perkins / Aug. 1864" [?Thomas Perkins (1842-1907), adm. Christ's, 10 Apr. 1861; Alumni cant.]. Gift of Mark L. Reed