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The poetical works of William Wordsworth ..

William Wordsworth, Myles Birket Foster (Illustrator), John Leighton (Binding designer), Mark L. Reed (Former owner), Dalziel Brothers (Engraver), G. Routledge & Co (Publisher), Cox and Wyman (Printer), Bone & Son (Binder)
Print Book, English, 1858
A new ed., carefully edited, with a life
G. Routledge & Co. ..., London, 1858
Binders' tickets (Binding) England London
xxiii, [1], 496 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
840709
"Cox and Wyman, printers ..."--Colophon
"The life of Wordsworth" (p. [v]-xiv)--signed: "W.R." [?William Routledge; cf. Reed]
Illustrated by Birket Foster; wood engravings by Dalziel Brothers
RBC copies 1-4: Gift of Mark L. Reed
RBC c. 1: Lacks front free endpaper. Binding: blue bead grain cloth; decorated in blind and gilt. Binding signed at foot of spine: "JL" [John Leighton]. Binder's ticket on rear pastedown: "Bone & Son, / 76, Fleet street, / London." Spine title: The poetical works of Wordsworth illustrated. Note of former owner (Reed)--on rear free endpaper
RBC c. 2: Binding: red bead grain cloth; decorated in blind and gilt. Spine title: The poetical works of Wordsworth illustrated. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper dated 25 Dec. 1859
RBC c. 3: Binding: dark green morocco; decorated and lettered in gilt; decorated board edges and turn-ins. Spine title: Wordsworth's poetical works. Note of former owner (Reed)--on rear free endpaper
RBC c. 4: Plate "The white doe of Rylstone" replaces "The highland girl" as frontispiece. Binding: light brown morocco; decorated in blind; lettered in gilt; edges gauffered and gilt; marbled endpapers. Spine title: Wordsworth's poetical works ilustrated. On front flyleaf: "Daniel Meinhertgagen / First Class French Prize. / Wellesley House / Christmas 1858. / Thomas James Scalé." Note of former owner (Reed)--on rear flyleaf