[WORDSWORTH WILLIAM; and COLERIDGE SAMUEL TAYLOR] Lyrical Ba

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[WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM; and COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR.] Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. [2], v, [vi]-[viii], 210, [1, errata (verso blank)], [2, advertisements]. 12mo, 19th century red calf-backed marbled boards, front cover becoming loose, edges rubbed; errata and advertising leaf for Cottle's bound in rear; custom cloth slipcase. ex-collection jean hersholt with his Signed bookplate and library label inside clamshell box. London: Printed for J. & A. Arch, 1798

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first edition, second issue with the cancel title-page. It contains the first appearance of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Marinere [sic]. It is also Wordsworth's first major book of poems, and his most famous; it contains his "Tintern Abbey." The first issue with the title-page showing Bristol is exceedingly rare. This scarce second printing contains a cancel title and the following textual points: misprint "Oft" on page 19 corrected in ink; "woods," and "thought," on page 204 unbattered. Grolier English 66; Hayward 202; Keating 4; Healey 4. A landmark work of Eighteenth Century English Romantic Poetry.