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On the front wrapper: "Kendrew's edition." Chapbook, approx. 3¾" x 2½", pp. [16]; 14 wood engravings (including those on the wrappers), including 3 by Thomas Bewick; original pictorial yellow self-wrappers; fine. Poem by William Wordsworth from Lyrical Ballads (1798). The poem was revised in 1815; this edition follows (with a few variants) the original version. In a letter to Frances Wrangham (June 5, 1808), Wordsworth comments on the chapbook trade and adds: "I have so much felt the influence of these straggling papers that I have many a time wished that I had talents to produce songs, poems, and little histories that might circulate among other good things in this way, supplanting partly the bad; flowers and useful herbs to take [the] place of weeds. Indeed, some of the poems which I have published were composed, not without a hope, that at some time or other they might answer this purpose." OCLC finds copies at the University of York, Manchester, BL, Nottingham, Aberystwyth University, National Library of Scotland, and in the U.S., only the NYPL, although Chicago and North Carolina at Greensboro apparently have copies bound up with other similar chapbooks. See Osborn I, p. 87. Seller Inventory # 67172
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