[Rarebooks] Lyrical Ballads

[Mark Stirling]

For Sale from Up-Country Letters, South Lake Tahoe, California:

 

Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems.  Two Volumes.  Volume 1, London:  J. & A. Arch, 1798.  First edition, second (London) issue (Wise, 4).  Volume 2,  London:  Longman, Rees, 1800.  First edition (Wise, 5, v.2), originally issued with the second edition of the above.  Vol. 1:  Later navy blue leather, gilt extra, all edges gilt, by Riviere and Son, retaining the original binder's preliminary blank with the ownership signature of Anna Hogge, the errata leaf, and the terminal ad leaf.  A Fine copy, 6 1/16 x 3 5/8 inches (a)5 B-D8 (E)8 F-N8 O3.    Vol.2:  Early green half calf, leather label, gilt, decorated in gilt and blind, and green cloth.  The first state, with 10 lines on p.210.  A few leaves lightly foxed.  Somewhat worn at edges, very shallow loss at spine top.  Ownership signature of poet Ralph Hodgson on the free endpaper.   A Very Good copy, 5 15/16 x 3 7/8 inches  (a)2 A-O8, P2.  George Saintsbury (1896, p.48) called Lyrical Ballads "...the clarion-call of the new poetry...the greatest work in verse...that had been done for 200 years."  This is the ripe kernel of English Romanticism, especially the "live simply, think deeply" manifestation.   "Here the adversarial stance of the true writer...was established...(he) assert(s) that there is a tendency in the culture of the time which it is the duty of poetry to counteract and which possibly only poetry can counteract" (Gill, William Wordsworth, 1989).  For the set.    $9500

 

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