A Bibliography of William Wordsworth

1787–1930

Mark L. Reed

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781316047972
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The publishing history of William Wordsworth's writings is complex and often obscure. These two volumes set out, for the first time, a comprehensive, detailed bibliographic description of every edition of Wordsworth's writings up to 1930. The great variety of forms in which readers encountered both authorized and unauthorized texts by Wordsworth is revealed, not only as produced during his lifetime but also during the years of his largest sales, popularity and influence, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The bibliography provides new information about hundreds of printings and their internal and external designs, processes of production, sales, contents and variant texts and illustrations. More than a record of the transmission and reception of Wordsworth and his writings, it offers invaluable new data for the study of British publishing history and the reception and readership of British Romantic literature.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Figures
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Bibliographic Procedures
• A Separate Single-author Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides
• A Separate Single-author Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides
• B First and Personally Contributed Printings in Separate Books and Pamphlets not Principally by Wordsworth
• C First and Personally Contributed Printings in Journals and Other Intermittent Publications not Books
• Appendices
• Appendix I Lyrical Ballads, 1800
• Appendix II Poems by William Wordsworth, Vol. 3, 1820
• Appendix III The Number of Printings and Sets of Stereo Plates of the 1828 Galignani Edition of The Poetical Works
• Appendix IV The 1869 Printing of the Moxon Double-Column Edition of The Poems of William Wordsworth
• Appendix V Printings and Texts of Pastoral Poems, 1858
• Appendix VI Bindings of the Crowell Poetical Works (third edition, 1892–) and Arnold’s Poems of Wordsworth (1892–)
• Appendix VII Editorially Composited Texts in Matthew Arnold’s Poems of Wordsworth
• Appendix VIII Editorial Titles of Wordsworth’s Poems
• Index