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WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM; and COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR. Lyrical Ballads. 2 volumes. Small 8vo, contemporary calf with red and green straight-grain

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM; and COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR. Lyrical Ballads. 2 volumes. Small 8vo, contemporary calf with red and green straight-grain morocco lettering pieces, spines faded, ends worn, Volume 1 front joint cracked, minor surface imperfection on Volume 2 front cover; bookplates removed. London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800

  • Notes: first complete edition, comprising the second edition of the first volume, containing the first appearance of Wordsworth's celebrated preface inveighing against the artificiality of 18th-century English poetry; and the first edition, first issue, of the second volume. "Wordsworth's famous preface defining his theory of poetry... became in effect the revolutionary manifesto of the romantic poets of the next generation"--Printing and the Mind of Man 256. Tinker 2330.

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