![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Amazingly, that edition was such a financial disaster that Longman, upon purchasing the printer’s rights from Joseph Cottle, valued it at “nothing” and sent it back to Wordsworth for revision. ![]() In the 1798 one-volume first edition of Lyrical Ballads the poets rejected classical principles of beauty and formal style, choosing instead to write in the language of ordinary people and elevate their lives. Housed in a custom slipcase and clamshell box.įirst complete edition of this touchstone of English Romanticism, containing the first appearance of Wordsworth’s landmark Preface-boldly “defining his theory of poetry… Wordsworth’s revolt against 18th-century artificiality” (PMM)-a most desirable copy with both volumes handsomely bound in one richly elegant, gilt-stamped morocco volume. Small octavo (4 by 6-1/4 inches), 19th-century full straight-grain burgundy morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, all edges gilt. WORDSWORTH, William and COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. “EMOTION RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILITY”: EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE AND IMPORTANT LYRICAL BALLADS, 1800, ONE OF ONLY 500 COPIES, WITH WORDSWORTH’S FAMOUS PREFACE-“MANIFESTO OF THE ROMANTIC POETS” ![]()
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