FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp 238. Publishers’ dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth unobtrusively stained top edge. Top edge of leaves faintly damp-stained and foxed, mainly up to ...

Undated circa 1880. Small quarto, pp 204 & [205]-408. Illustrated with 101 captioned tissue-guarded steel-engraved plates of each subject together with a short biography of each. Half calf with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to maroon leather labels to spine, gilt tooling to compartments and gilt borders, with pebbled cloth boards; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Spines lightly sunned and boards partially so; edges rubbed with minor wear at corners. Ffep glued to front pastedown Vol I. A ...

THIRD EDITION, complete in 2 volumes. Octavo, pp., viii, 543 & iv, 492. With portrait frontispiece and fold-out facsimile letter to Vol I. Green polished half calf with 4 raised bands, red labels with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to compartments; marbled boards and sprinkled edges. Silk placemarkers. Corners bumped with wear and boards lightly scuffed; very minor loss at head of spine Vol I ...

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp xii, 457,[1] Volume I and viii, 524 vol II. Frontispiece portraits of William and Dora Wordsworth. Full vellum binding by Riviere & Son with red and black labels with gilt titles to spine, gilt scale design to spines, gilt border to boards; gilt dentelles and t.e.g. Marbled endpapers ...