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William Wordsworth. The Excursion; A Poem. London: Edward Moxon, 1836.8vo, early possibly original cloth-backed drab boards.
RARE SEPARATE EDITION, after the more common collective edition; Healey notes only one other known copy at Yale. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to his cousin, Richard's, wife, Elizabeth Wordsworth, on the half-title: "To / Elizabeth Wordsworth / from / her affectionate cousin / Wm. Wordsworth / Rydal Mount / 5th June / 1840."
Condition: Light soiling to boards; front hinge cracked and rear hinge starting; edgewear to spine ends and corners; endpapers toned; dampstain to lower fore edge; stain to pages 104-105; intermittent foxing and soiling; article ("Wordsworth & the Women Who Loved Him," by Holbrook Jackson, from T. P.'s Weekly, March 11, 1916) laid in.
References: Healey/Cornell 104; Reed A56.
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