Last Poems, 1821-1850, by William Wordsworth, edited by Jared Curtis with associate editors Apryl Lea Denny-Ferris and Jillian Heydt-Stevenson. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1999 - first edition, first printing (number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1, cloth printing), a volume of The Cornell Wordsworth. ISBN 0-8014-3625-7. The definitive scholarly edition of some 200 poems from the last three decades of Wordsworth's life - On the Power of Sound, the Evening Voluntaries, and the tributes to Beaumont, Coleridge, Hogg, Lamb, and Southey - with reading texts, a full apparatus of manuscript variants, and photographs and transcriptions of selected manuscripts, drawn from more than 260 manuscripts. Long out of print and one of the scarcer volumes of the series.
Condition: VERY GOOD. Hardcover in bright blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind-stamped Cornell Wordsworth device, in the original grey dust jacket, unclipped, bright, and housed in a removable mylar protector. Binding tight and square; cloth clean; text clean and unmarked throughout, with no ownership marks.
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