Heading: (Doves Bindery)
Author: Wordsworth, William
Title: Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems
Place Published: London
Publisher:Printed for T. N. Longman And O. Rees
Date Published: 1800
Description:

2 volumes. xlvi, 210, [5]; [4], 227, [1] pp. 15.7x9.8 cm (6¼x3¾"), full green levant morocco ruled in gilt, spine lettered & tooled in gilt with a petal design, raised bands, gilt ruled turn-ins, all edges gilt; signed "The Doves Bindery 1894" in lower turn-in at rear of each volume. Housed in modern custom folding cloth case with morocco label. First Complete Edition (comprising the second edition of the first volume, and the first edition, first issue of the second volume). ;

A remarkable copy of Lyrical Ballads beautifully bound at the Doves Bindery. The publication of Lyrical Ballads is often described as "the inaugural event of the Romantic period," and this preferred edition of the work contains the first printing of Wordsworth's famous Preface, "the revolutionary manifesto of the romantic poets" (Printing and the Mind of Man 256). Lyrical Ballads ; is also justly famous for having contained the first appearance of Coleridge's wildly imaginative and entrancing poem "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner", and it here appears with considerable changes from its initial 1798 printing. The second volume with the first state issue points: p. 209 with last word of footnote in the middle of the page; p. 210 with 10 lines only; p. 211 with 19 lines, ending with "he thought again"; p. 212 with 19 lines, beginning with "And his heart fail'd him". ; An important book, joining the dawn of the Romantic period with a lovely binding from the high point of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Vol. II with expert and nearly indiscernible restoration and retooling to the top compartment of the spine strip; some very slight shelf rubbing to bindings; offset to margins of free endpapers from the turn-ins, light foxing to endpapers and flyleaves, near fine.