Wordsworth Dorothy Edited Mary Moorman (2 results)

Good reading copy wraps. Excellent reading copy.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first edition, published as a paperback original [PBO] in 1971. 'This edition, with new material by Mary Moorman, first published as an Oxford University Press paperback by Oxford University Press, London, 1971.' With an Introduction by Helen Darbishire. [As quoted on the printer's page] The book was first published in hardback in the Oxford World's Classics series in 1958. ***Very good in illustrated card covers. The covers are clean and only lightly marked, with no significant creases or bumps - just some light edge wear commensurate with age and handling. The bottom corner of the front cover is lightly creased. Small tear at the bottom of the spine. Very light reading creases to the spine. Internally also very good with no inscriptions, but with a 'Wordsworth's Cottage Grasmere' stamp on the half-title page. No foxing. Pages clean - the paper stock just lightly tanned. Spine tight. ***231 pages including detailed Appendices and Index at the back of the book. 198mm x 128mm. ***'Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth (25 Dec 1771 - 25 Jan 1855) was an English author, poet, and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close all their adult lives. Dorothy Wordsworth had no ambitions to be a public author, yet she left behind numerous letters, diary entries, topographical descriptions, poems, and other writings.' [Wiki] ***'Wordsworth's "exquisite sister", as Coleridge described her, was not only the cherished companion of two great poets but herself a poet in prose. The journals she kept at Alfoxden in 1798, when her brother and Coleridge were composing the Lyrical Ballads, and at Grasmere from 1800 to 1803, when she and Wordsworth were living at Dove Cottage, are more than a valuable record of their day-to-day life, for Dorothy combined an intense and minute observation of nature with a genuine poetic imagination, whose influence can be seen in many of Wordsworth's poems of the period, printed in an appendix to thus volume. In this new edition by Mary Moorman the Grasmere journal is printed for the first time as Dorothy wrote it, the text having been carefully revised, particularly as regards punctuation, use of capital letters and italics, from the manuscript notebooks in the Library at Dove Cottage. A number of erased passages, hitherto undeciphered, have been recovered, and Mrs. Moorman has supplied many new notes, both topographical and biographical. Two poems by Dorothy herself are given in the appendix, along with thirty-three shorter poems of Wordsworth referred to in the journals. The introduction by the late Helen Darbishire first appeared in the World's Classics edition of 1958, which this Oxford Paperbacks edition replaces.' [Quote taken from the back cover] ***First impression of the first revised edition, published as a PBO, in nice collectable condition. A book that was reprinted many times, and which is hard to track down now in first impression. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.