Descrizione

A pleasing and easily handled edition of the poems. With an engraved portrait on the title-page. 8vo, handsomely bound in full tan polished calf, the covers with gilt rolled borders, the spine with raised bands separating compartments fully gilt, dark green morocco lettering label gilt, board edges and turnovers gilt tooled, all edges gilt. (xxxi), 331 pp. A very pleasing and handsome copy, the binding tight and strong, the text-block clean.

Edizione: handsomely bound edition of the poems of wordsworth. the works of one the greatest poets of the early 19th century. wordsworth holds an illustrious spot in the canon of romantic poets, joined by men such as keats and coleridge, and his poems in this volume speak his genius for themselves. wordsworth had a passionate love for all things of nature: “knolls, rocks, and lakes, were his personal acquaintances, as it were, or rather his personal friends; and not a few trees, in different parts of the country, owe to his intercession their continued existence”