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Roy., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper; original cloth blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. ROY FULLER'S COPY WITH HIS NEAT SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Volume III comprises Miscellaneous Sonnets, Memorials of various Tours, Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty, The Egyptian Maid, The River Dudgeon series, The White Doe and other Narrative Poems, Ecclesiastical Sonnets (1946). Professor Ernest de Selincourt is universally recognised as the single most outstanding editor of Wordsworth. Following his edition of the poet's great single work 'The Prelude' (1926), immediately recognised as the definitive text, he devoted almost twenty years to the preparation of his magnum opus - the 'Poetical Works' in five magisterial volumes. Quite apart from the scrupulous veracity of the texts, the edition bristles with variora and comprehensively detailed notes and comment by a lifetime scholar. In the last three volumes de Selincourt was assisted by his close collaborator Helen Darbishire who subsequently assumed his mantle. A SPLENDID LITERARY ASSOCIATION COPY.