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William Wordsworth. Poetical Works of Wordsworth (Salesman's Dummy Sample Book). Houghton Mifflin, 1910.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: a salesman's dummy sample book for the Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, leather hardcover with gilt lettering, top edge gilt, worm hole on bottom edge of pages, example of leather spine and half leather binding in front, cloth spine in rear, with examples of 23 photogravure plates with tissue guards

Seller: Stone Soup Books, Camden, ME, U.S.A.

Wordsworth, William. Volume One Only of THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1910.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. publisher's cloth, paper spine label. 220, (2) pages. Volume One Only. Volume one only of the first Large Paper Edition of this monumental work composed of William Wordsworth complete poetical works. Most likely designed by Bruce Rogers (not in Warde or Haas). Spine age-darkened, wear to edges and spine ends. Very minor dampstain along the edge of the preliminary pages. Printed by The Riverside Press. Frontispiece and illustrated with photogravures. publisher's cloth, paper spine label

Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.

William Wordsworth. The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth [Large Paper Edition, Full 10-Volume Set] - William Wordsworth. Houghton Mifflin, 1910.

Price: US$1664.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Complete 10-volume set, Large Paper Edition, 1910. Limited and numbered. Three-quarter leather with marbleized boards, raised bands, gilt titles and decorations. Top page edges gilt. Bindings firm. A previous owner's name written inside each volume (twice in a few). Some pencil marks in margins of a few volumes. Exteriors lightly shelfworn (with a bit more wear to Vol. X). Gilt quite bright. Reliable customer service. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.)

Seller: Big Star Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.

WORDSWORTH William. Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1910.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Ten volumes. Octavos. Contemporary three-quarter brown morocco and marbled boards with elaborate gilt-decorated spines, top edges gilt. Illustrated with photogravures and hand-colored frontispieces. Copy number 160 of 500 sets of the Large Paper Edition. Very slight rubbing, a fine set.

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

William Wordsworth. The Complete Poetical Works. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1910.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Large Paper Edition. Leather Bound. H: 9", D: 6", W: 1 1/4" 10 Volumes. William Wordsworth, The Complete Poetical Works. Large Paper Edition. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and marbled boards. The covers and raised band spines are decorated with gilt-tooled detailing. The top edges are gilt with marbled endpapers. Illustrated. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston and New York, 1910.

Seller: Imperial Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Wordsworth, William.. The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Large-Paper Edition in Ten Volumes. [With an Autograph Letter, Signed by Wordsworth].. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York., 1910.

Price: US$9500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: "This edition is limited to five hundred sets of which this is No. 8." With an 1839 Wordsworth ALS to T. N. Talfourd, regarding copyright. Ten volumes; 6 inches x 8 7/8 in., half-title; two page, Wordsworth autograph letter signed, mounted on a paper tab and bound in the first volume; photographic frontispiece, portrait in two forms: colored and monochrome; titlepage in red & black, with vignette. Illustrated with 66 photogravures in monochrome; each is accompanied by a hand-colored form of the plate, with titled tissue guards. Most pages are unopened. This appears to be one of a small number of low numbered sets in full leather, with the plates in two forms, and most likely, the Wordsworth ALS added by the publisher. Bound in full, dark green morocco leather, by The Riverside Press, with their stamp; five raised bands on the spines, gilt titles, gilt floral designs on the spine and covers, doublures in darker green morocco, with simple gilt borders, dark green, watered silk endpapers, green silk bookmarker ribbons bound in, and top-edges gilt. The spines show typical fading of the green leather to brown, light fading to cover edges. With the bookplates of Cleveland, Ohio-based book collector, William G. Mather (1857-1951) on the endpapers. A fine set with the plates in two states, and a two-page Wordsworth letter bound in. Wordsworth letters are uncommon. The two pages, 7 1/4 in. x 9 in. Wordsworth letter is written on a light blue paper, and the lower and fore-edges have been folded so it fits in the book. It shows two postmarks on the back: Free 13 AP 1839; Bath AP 11 [1839], and a small red wax seal. The letter shows a chip to the fore-edge of the second page, some light wear, and dusting. It is addressed to Thomas Noon Talfourd, and regards the issue of Copyright that Talfourd and others were involved in during the 1830's-'40's. [Partial contents]: My dear Sergeant Talfourd Your Letter just received I am mortified not a little that you should have had so much trouble and made such a sacrifice-to meet so unworthy a House of Commons. That can be tolerant of the heartlessness and injustice of that assembly is what vexes me most in the whole business- I entirely approve of the Publication you meditate -only by selecting two or three petitions you [-] offend some of those Authors to whom the little distinction was not paid-I therefore submit whether it would be advisable to print any of them.-- As a fact connected with my own case, I will mention that in the year 1805- I concluded a long Poem [The Prelude] upon the formation of my own mind; part of which you saw in MS when I had the pleasure of a [-] visit from you at Rydal. That book still [-] in MS. Its publication has [-] been prevented mainly by the personal character of [-] it. Had it been published as soon as it was finished the Copyright would long since have expired in case of my decease. Now, I do honestly believe [-] that Poem is given to the world before twenty-eight years had elapsed after the composition would scarcely have paid its own expenses. Were it published now, in the [-] and of such reputation as I have acquired I have reason to believe that [-] the proposed form it would be respectable- and my posterity, even as the law now is, would [-] by the delay- but in the other case neither they, nor I would have got a farthing from it. if my life had not been prolonged. The profit such as it might be would all have gone to Printers and Publishers, I would of course [-] would have allowed me to be in Town before the Bill comes on again. With best wishes I remain affectionately your much obliged Friend [signed]: William Wordsworth If you should see Mr. Milnes [-] tell him [-] much gratified in learning that he had [-] of your Yorkshire [-]. April 11th 10 George St. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd Russell Square London.". Seller Inventory # MM-34

Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.

WORDSWORTH, William.. The Complete Poetical Works. In ten volumes.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910-11, 1910.

Price: US$12351.60 + shipping

Description: The "Large-Paper Edition", number 42 of 500 sets, with an autograph manuscript poem signed and dated by Wordsworth window-mounted and bound after the half-title in the first volume. This set is extra-illustrated with ten hand-coloured plates bound before the frontispieces. The manuscript quotes the last four lines from "Inscriptions For a Seat in The Groves of Coleorton": "Communities are lost and Empires die / And things of holiest use unhallowed lie; / They perish; but the Intellect can raise / From airy words alone a pile that ne'er decays. Wm Wordsworth Rydal Mount Nov. 7th 1837." The poem was written in 1806, while Wordsworth was a guest at Coleorton Hall, the seat of his friend Sir George Beaumont (1753-1827). It was first published in Poems (1815), and is printed in the present set (vol. V, p. 238). The photogravure plates were based on photographs taken by the Cumbrian firm Walmsley Brothers of Ambleside, and were "intended to reproduce the atmosphere of Wordsworth's poetry" (vol. I, p. v). 10 volumes, octavo (226 x 157 mm). Early 20th-century brown half morocco, spines with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, remaining compartments decorated in gilt, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, green silk bookmarkers. Frontispieces and 56 photogravure plates, extra-illustrated with 10 hand-coloured photogravure plates, all with tissue guards. Title pages printed in red and black. Bookplate of Henry F. Schwarz, possibly the Wellesley College history professor (1904-1970), to front free endpapers. Faint damp stains to outer leaves, contents lightly toned, else clean. A very good set, attractively bound.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom