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The Edward M. Rowe Collection of William Wordsworth: Early Editions: Poetry

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Title page of the first edition of The Prelude (1850).

First editions and early editions

Poems, by Francis Wrangham. London: Sold by J. Mawman, 1795.
Note: Includes a 45-line translation by Wordsworth of a French poem by Wrangham.

  • Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5899 .W65 P6 1795

Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems.  1st edition, 2nd issue.  London  Printed for J. & A. Arch, Gracechurch-street, 1798.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection PR 5869 .L9 1798

 Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems.  2nd edition.  London: Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, by Biggs and Co. Bristol, 1800.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 L995 1800 v. 1-2

Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, in Two Volumes.  3rd edition.  London: Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, by Biggs and Cottle, 1802.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 L995 1802

Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, in Two Volumes.  4th edition.  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, by R. Taylor and Co., 1805.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 L995 5 v. 1-2

Poems, in Two Volumes.  London: Printed for Longan, Hurst, Ress, and Orme, 1807.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 P751 1807 v. 1-2

The Excursion, Being a Portion of The Recluse, A Poem.  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 Ex27 1814

The White Doe of Rylstone; or The Fate of the Nortons: A Poem.  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown … by J. Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, 1815.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection Quarto 821.713 W582 1815

Poems (1815).  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815.
Note: Three of the poems, “Address to a child,” “The mother’s return,” and “The cottager to the infant,” are by Dorothy Wordsworth.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 P752 1815 v. 1-2

Thanksgiving Ode, January 18, 1816: With Other Short Pieces, Chiefly Referring to Recent Public Events London: Printed by Thomas Davison, for Longman, Hurst, Orme, and Brown, 1816.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 T329 1816

Peter Bell, a Tale in Verse.  London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 P442 1819

The Waggoner, A Poem: To Which Are Added, Sonnets.  London: Printed  for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 W124 1819

The River Duddon: a Series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia: and Other Poems; To Which Is Annexed, a Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes, in the North of England.  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 R524 1820

The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth; In four Volumes.  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

               Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 M681 1820 vol.1-4. 

Ecclesiastical Sketches.  London  Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1822.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 Ec28 1822

Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820.  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.

  • Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5862 .A1 1822

A Collection of Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors. Edited by Joanna Baillie.  London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823.
Note: Two sonnets by Wordsworth, "Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swell," and "A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are found," were first printed in this volume; both went through much revision later. 

  • Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 1221 .B3 1823

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Complete in One Volume (pirated edition).  Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1828.
Note: Mounted in rear of book is a manuscript letter from William Wordsworth to Harriet Martineau concerning drawing of Rydal Lake and another letter from Martineau to Miss Carpenter, the artist of the sketch.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 P75 1828

The Keepsake for MDCCCXXIX.  Edited by Frederic Mansel Reynolds.  London: Published for the proprietor, by Hurst, Chance, and Co., and R. Jennings, 1829.
Note: Contains the first printing of five poems by William Wordsworth: "The Gleaner," "The Triad," "The Wishing Gate," and two sonnets. 

  • Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 1143 .K44 1829 

Selections from the Poems of William Wordsworth, Esq.; Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons.  London: Edward Moxon, 1831

  • Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5852 .H5 1831

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth; A New Edition; In Four Volumes.  London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1832.

  • Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5850 .E32 1832 vol.1-4

Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems.  London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and Edward Moxon, 1835.

  • Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5869 .Y3 1835

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth; A New Edition; In Six Volumes.  London: Edward Moxon, 1836-1837.

  • Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5850 .E36b 1836 vol.1-6

The Sonnets of William Wordsworth; Collected in One Volume; With a Few Additional Ones, Now First Published.  London: Edward Moxon, 1838.

  • Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5866 .A1 1838

Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, A Tragedy.  London: Edward Moxon, 1842.

  • Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5852 1842

Select Pieces from the Poems of William Wordsworth.  London: Edward Moxon, 1843.

  •  Call Number: PR 5852 .M93 1847 

The Poems of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, etc.  London: E. Moxon, 1845.

  • Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5852 1845

Ode, Performed in the Senate-House, Cambridge, on the Sixth of July, M.DCCC.XLVII; At the First Commencement after the Installation of His Royal Highness the Prince Albert, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.  London: George Bell, 1847.

  • Call Number: Vault Collection 821.713 Od2 1847

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, etc. etc. In Six Volumes.  London: E. Moxon, 1849-1850. 

  •  Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5850 .E49 1849 vol.1-6

The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind; an Autobiographical Poem.  London: Edward Moxon, 1850.

  • Call Number: Rowe Collection PR 5864 .A1 1850

The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind; an Autobiographical Poem.  New York: D. Appleton & Company; Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton, 1850.
Note: This is the first American edition of The Prelude

  • Call Number: PR 5864 .A1 1850 no.2

The Recluse. London; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1888.

  • Call Number: PR 5869 .R4 1888

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