The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind
WORDSWORTH, William
Edited from the Manuscripts with Introduction, Textual and Critical Notes by Ernest de Selincourt.
THE ORIGINAL DE SELINCOURT EDITION WITH PROSPECTUS
Published: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1926
Stock code: 30940
Price: £86.00
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece and 6 plates of facsimiles (2 double-page); original terracotta buckram, backstrip with paper label printed in black, uncut, label moderately browned else a very good, bright, clean copy.
With elegant personal bookplate on front paste-down, and spare label tipped in at end. A copy of the publisher's prospectus for De Selincourt's 'Poetical Works' is loosely inserted. Bright copy of the first appearance of the magisterial edition by the poet's finest editor.