Wordsworth William and Dorothy, First Edition (18 results)

Fine Binding. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Preston-Bell (illustrator). First Edition. DOVE COTTAGE The Wordsworths at Grasmere 1799-1803 Dorothy and William Wordsworth. Illustrated by John Preston-Bell. The Folio Society, London 1966 218pp Illustrated Fine Binding. This copy is bound in quarter burgundy buckram to red patterned paper covered boards. There is gilt titling to the spine. The contens are tight and bright. This copy is encased in a grey linen covered card slip case which has some splitting to the base but is otherwise very good. This Folio Society original first edition includes 'The Grasmere Journal' by Dorothy Wordsworth together with selections from the correspondence of Dorothy and William Wordsworth edited by Kingsley Hart. The book is beautifully illustrated with atmospheric half tone photographs by John Preston-Bell. Dove Cottage in Grasmere was William Wordsworth's home from 1799 to 1808. Here Wordsworth wrote much of his poetry, and his sister Dorothy kept her famous journals. Dove Cottage was built in the early 17th Century and for over 170 years was an inn called the 'Dove and Olive'. It closed in 1793, and in 1799 Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved in. In 1802 after her marriage to William, Mary Hutchinson arrived. Their three oldest children were born at Dove Cottage - John in 1803, Dora in 1804 and Thomas in 1806. Mary's sister Sara Hutchinson and William's friend Thomas De Quincey also lived here. The Wordsworths had many visitors to Dove Cottage - Walter Scott, Thomas De Quincey, Charles and Mary Lamb, Robert Southey and most of all Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Wordsworth's growing family and the many visitors meant that Dove Cottage became too small, and in May 1808 they moved to Allan Bank in Grasmere. Ref O1 Size: 218pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Plates (illustrator). First Edition. FIRST EDITION. GLASGOW : 1903. Hardback. Frontispiece and nine full-page plates. Dark-red cloth; gilt lettered spine and cover. Top-edge gilt; others untrimmed edges as issued. No owner name or internal markings. Tight, bright and clean. Slight browning to free end-papers. Minor wear to spine. VERY GOOD. (xii), 244 pages. CANON HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY (1851-1920) was a Church of England clergyman, poet, hymn writer, local politician, and conservationist. He was also one of the founders of the National Trust. Living in the English Lake District for more than thirty years, he worked for the protection of the countryside and secured the support of people of influence for his campaigns. Rawnsley was born at the rectory, Shiplake, Oxfordshire, England, the fourth of ten children of the Rev Robert Drummond Burrell Rawnsley (1817-1882) and his wife, Catherine Ann, née Franklin (1818-1892). He was educated at Uppingham School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was prominent in university athletics and rowing. He gained a third class degree in natural science in 1874 and was awarded his Master of Arts degree in 1875. In the same year he was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England and became the first chaplain of Clifton College mission, ministering to one of Bristol's poorest areas. In 1877 Rawnsley was ordained as a priest, and in 1878 he took up the post of Vicar of Wray, Windermere, in the Lake District. In January 1878, he married Edith Fletcher, and the couple had one child, a son, Noel. In 1882, the young Beatrix Potter holidayed in nearby Wray Castle with her parents. They entertained many eminent guests, including Rawnsley. His views on preserving the natural beauty of the Lake District had a lasting effect on Potter, who was already taken with the area. He was the first published author she had met, and he took a great interest in her drawings, later encouraging her to publish her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. Sm.8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].

Très Bon état intérieur. Marques en couverture et tranche. In-8. 2020. broché. 378 pages. tranche salie. Bon état.

Condition: Good. First edition. Hardback. Very good ex-library copy with the usual attributes, original cloth with slight wear and fading. No jacket.

First edition thus. Hardcover. Original quarter maroon cloth, and papered boards. With a handsome bookplate of a French-Australian bookseller/collector on the front paste-down, o/w fine in the original slipcase a bit worn on the edges. With b/w photographs of Dove Cottage and environs.

New Edition (One Volume). Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Minor tape marks to end-papers. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvii, 544 p : front. (port.) ; 20 cm. Notes: "First edition (in two volumes) 1897." Subjects: Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855). Authors, English 19th century ; Diaries. 1 Kg.

New Edition (One Volume). Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Minor tape marks to end-papers. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xvii, 544 p : front. (port.) ; 20 cm. Notes: "First edition (in two volumes) 1897." Subjects: Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771-1855). Authors, English 19th century ; Diaries. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. 8vo. Original publisher's maroon cloth lettered gilt at the spine. pp xxxviii, 543. Bumped and slightly nicked at head of spine, slight shelf-wear otherwise VG. Short closed tear to 2 pages (403-6) not affecting text.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Large octavo (20 x 26 cm) in an illustrated DJ (black spine) ; 160 p : illus (some col.), maps ; 20 x 26 cm. Nicely illustrated to Wordsworth`s poetry // Biography -- Poetry -- England. A fine clean copy in a fine DJ First edition, first printing (full number line).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. B/W Illus (illustrator). 1st. dj w/clipped price; 367 clean, unmarked pages/index; First Edition, First Printing Size: 8 vo.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 578 pages; xviii, 578 p., 1 l : fold. front., fold. map, fold. facsim ; 23 cm. Subjects: Wordsworth, William 1770-1850 - Correspondence. Wordsworth, Dorothy 1771-1855 - Correspondence. Biography -- English literature -- Poetry and poets -- Romanticism. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 578 pages; xviii, 578 p., 1 l : fold. front., fold. map, fold. facsim ; 23 cm. Subjects: Wordsworth, William 1770-1850 - Correspondence. Wordsworth, Dorothy 1771-1855 - Correspondence. Biography -- English literature -- Poetry and poets -- Romanticism. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Engraved Portrait Frontispiece (illustrator). First Edition. FIRST EDITION. CARLISLE : 1875. 'Issued as a companion to the Songs and ballads of Cumberland and the Lake Country'. --Preface. Biography and works by Josiah Relph, Charles Graham, Susanna Blamire, Ewan Clark, Mark Lonsdale, John Stagg, Thomas Wilkinson; Plus a Miscellany by William & Dorothy Wordsworth, Miss Powley, Rev. Ellwood, et al., Hardback. Engraved Portrait Frontispiece of John Stagg the Blind Bard. Original dark-green sand-grained cloth; gilt lettered spine. Original brown end-papers. Untrimmed edges as issued. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only. Rubbing to front cover. VERY GOOD. (viii), 246 pages. 8pp adverts for 'G & T Coward Booksellers & Printer', Carlisle. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, Cumberland, Everyman, Keswick, Inklings, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Limitation not stated. A Fine copy in burgundy crimson buckram over red patterned paper covered boards, maroon topstain. Edited by Kingsley Hart. Being the Grasmere Journal by Dorothy Wordsworth together with selections from the correspondence of Dorothy and William Wordsworth. 217pp. with many fine black and white photographic illustrations of the Lake District. Q15990.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. University library withdrawals, tight with clean crisp text in uniform brick cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A very good copy of the presumed first hard cover edition (no explicit edition or printing statement: date of 1935 to base of title page), lacking a dust-jacket. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding still ratherbright in appearance, with minor rubbing at the extremities of the boards. Gilt lettering of the spine quite legible. Previous owner's bookplet to front endpaper previously removed, with a small portion remaining. A sharp copy. [ Please note: This is NOT an ex-library copy. ].

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st edn. ~TITLE CONTINUES: The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Later Years Vol 1 (1821-1830)/ Vol 2 (1831-1840)/ Vol 3 (1841-1850)~PAGINATION CONTINUES: + xiv, 545-1059 + xii, 1061-1407pp., illus. ~Date range: 1935-39. No ownership marks. Original marroon cloth gilt. Dustwrapper slightly edgeworn and faded on spine but protected in removeable clear plastic sleeve. ~ Robust packaging. All UK orders tracked, others on request. Size: xviii, 578 + xx, 458 + xi, 459-932 + xxxviii, 543. Binding tight, text unmarked.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of these six volumes contain the letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, written all throughout their lives to each other and their friends. The first edition of this work.Complete in six volumes.A collection of the letters written between the siblings William and Dorothy Wordsworth.These volumes contain letters written from 1787 to William's death in 1850. The two siblings were close throughout their whole adult lives. Though focusing on the letters between the siblings, the collection also contains letters they wrote to their friends and peers.William Wordsworth was a noted Romantic poet, who in fact helped the launch the Romantic Era with his and Coleridge's publication of 'Lyrical Ballads' in 1798. William was the Poet Laureate under Queen Victorian from 1843 to 1850.Arranged and edited by Ernest de Selincourt.Volume I contains 1787-1805, illustrated with a folding frontispiece, and one folding map.Volume II contains 1806-1811.Volume III contains 1811-1820.Volume IV contains 1821-30,Volume V contains 1831-1840Volume VI contains 1841-1850. In the original publisher's cloth binding. externally, smart. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. Spines are a little faded, heavier fading to Volumes I, II, and III. A few minor marks to the boards. Rear board of Volumes II and VI are a little faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.