The Miscellaneous Poems. WORDSWORTH, William.

First edition of the first collection of Wordsworth's works, in an elaborate Regency binding. The publication, which the poet oversaw with "meticulous attention", also features the first appearance of several sonnets. Miscellaneous Poems draws from Evening Walk (1793), Descriptive Sketches, (1793), Lyrical Ballads (1789 and 1790), Poems, in two Volumes (1807), the White Doe of Rylstone (1815), Thanksgiving Ode (1816), The Tale of Peter Bell (1819), the Waggoner (1819), and River Duddon (1820). Of the major works it omits only The Excursion (1814). The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads of 1800, dubbed the "manifesto" of the Romantic movement, is also included. A pamphlet containing Wordsworth's Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, printed by Lee Priory Press, is bound at the end of volume 2. Patton 12. In 4 vols, octavo (169 x 105 mm). Engraved frontispieces with tissue guards to each volume, vol. 3 folding, all after Sir George Beaumont, errata leaf at the rear of vol. vi. Extra poem by Wordsworth bound at end of vol. 2. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, spines with three raised bands, blind and gilt rolls, gilt lettering and lyre ornaments, boards with gilt frames and rosette cornerpieces, blind frames with lyre cornerpieces, and blind-stamped lyre centrepieces, board edges and turn-ins gilt, purple endpapers, edges gilt, green silk bookmarkers. Spines sunned, extremities a little rubbed, bookmarkers detached, a little soiling to end of vol. 2. An attractive set.