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Wordsworth, William.. Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820.. London: printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme & Brown, 1822.

Price: US$603.28 + shipping

Description: viii pp including half title page, 103[1] pp. Recent brown 1/2 calf with gilt lettering to spine & original paper boards, speckled leaf edges. 22 cm x 14 cm. Random marks to paper boards, random foxing to text. Wise pp 25-26.

Seller: John Turton, Crook, United Kingdom

Wordsworth, William. Memorials of a tour on the continent, 1820. printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row, London, 1822.

Price: US$1562.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 103, [1]; uncut; contemporary quarter tan calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered direct on spine; upper joint cracked, lower joint starting, the whole a bit rubbed and worn, and the text lightly spotted; a good copy. Early ownership signature of J. Poole with corresponding shelf mark on front pastedown. "In 1820, Wordsworth made a four months' tour with his wife and sister and other friends up the Rhine to Switzerland, met Robinson at Lucerne, and after visiting the Italian lakes, returned to Paris" (DNB). Wise p. 120.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

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

Price: US$1800.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Octavo. viii, 103pp., complete with the half-title and four pages of advertisements bound in at the front (preceding the free endpaper): "This day just published . An Encyclopaedia of Gardening" (2pp.); and "Edinburgh Review of Bowdler's Family Shakespeare. No. 71. October, 1821" (2pp.). An untrimmed copy bound in the original publisher's paper-covered boards. Small binder's stamp: "F: Westley" stamped in blind on back pastedown. Both covers have been professionally re-jointed, two leaves have loss of the upper corner (not affecting the letterpress text), very good with scattered foxing mostly to the endpapers. Housed in an attractive quarter leather brown slipcase and cloth chemise, with some rubbing to the gilt spine. A collection of short autobiographical poems and two longer poems: *To Enterprize* and *Desultory Stanzas* inspired by Wordsworth's 1820 tour of France, the Low Countries, Switzerland, and Italy. Scarce in original boards. *Cornell Wordsworth Collection* 70.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.