The Excursion
WORDSWORTH, William
A Poem. A New Edition. [Fifth Edition].
ATTRACTIVE PERIOD COPY
Published: Edward Moxon, 1844
Stock code: 8645
Price: £186.00
8vo., Fifth Edition, neat early twentieth century signature pencilled in front paste-down; original publisher's cloth, sides with double frame border in blind enclosing an elaborate arabesque in blind, gilt back, uncut, short split in backstrip (not affecting lettering or soundness), cloth hinges just cracking (but binding wholly firm and sound), else a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy.
Complete with 8pp publisher's catalogue (dated June 1 1844) bound before title, and 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end.The Excursion was first published in 1814 (the only quarto issue). A second edition, in demy octavo, appeared in 1820, followed by a third in foolscap octavo in 1832. This was subsequently reprinted from stereo plates in 1836 and (as here) in 1844. See Wise p.83.