A Bibliography of William Wordsworth 2 Volume Hardback Set
1787–1930

An essential bibliographic resource for scholars, librarians, collectors and booksellers.

Mark L. Reed (Author)

9781107026377, Cambridge University Press

, published 18 April 2013

1296 pages, 23 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.4 x 7.6 cm, 2.16 kg

'Reed's bibliography represents the truly remarkable achievement of a lifetime.' The Times Literary Supplement

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.

Volume 1: Preface
Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
Bibliographic procedures
Separate single-author books, pamphlets, and broadsides. Volume 2: Separate single-author books, pamphlets, and broadsides (continued)
First and personally contributed printings in separate books and pamphlets not principally by Wordsworth
First and personally contributed printings in journals and other intermittent publications not books
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Publishing industry & book trade [KNTP], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD]