TWO LAKE POETS.
A catalogue of printed books, manuscripts and autograph letters by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge collected by Thomas James Wise. Pp. xxiv+136, 92 plates (the frontispiece and one other portrait with tissue guard), a few text facsimiles, 2 decorative headpieces, tailpiece; cr. 4to; maroon cloth over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, joints repaired and neatly underbacked, the upper board a trifle marked; t.e.g., others uncut and occasionally partly unopened; later endpapers, resewn, the hinges strengthened, one small pencilled annotation page 17; printed for private circulation only, London, 1927. First edition, limited to 160 copies, this being one of 130 copies on antique paper. [30 copies on English hand-made paper were also issued]. Todd 124b. *'Typical of Wise, the edition is limited to 160 copies to boost the price in the book-collector's market. On page 33, one forgery, "To the Queen/Dedicatory Verses Addressed/to Her Majesty with the/Author's Poems/By/William Wordsworth/Poet Laureate/1846" is described as a genuine first edition. This pamphlet was printed by Clay's No. 3 type (Carter & Pollard) which was not in use until 1880. Thus, the date on the pamphlet, 1846, must be false' [Delaware Bibliophiles]. Item #157051
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