First edition. 8vo. 8 [publisher’s advertisements dated November 1849], x, 374, [2, publishers advertisement] pp. Original purple embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. London, Moxon, 1850.
Published three months after Wordsworth’s death the poem was intended to be the prelude to “The Recluse” which the poet never finished.
A very good copy, spine and boards partially sunned, head and tail caps a little rolled and scuffed. Owners book plate to front paste down, with some foxing to the final pages.
