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Wordsworth (William [& Samuel Taylor Coleridge]). Lyrical Ballads, with other poems, 2 volumes, London: For T. N. Longman and O. Rees by Biggs & Co., Bristol, 1800, occasional light spots and minor marks, all edges gilt, later dark green full morocco gilt, (by Doves Bindery), spines gilt decorated between compartments, each volume signed to rear endpaper, and dated 1894, a little rubbed and minor wear to extremities, the second volume with portion to head of spine lacking, together with Tennyson (Alfred, Lord), Poems, Volume I (of 2) only, 3rd edition, London: Edward Moxon,1845, some light damp spotting to endpapers, inside gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, late 19the century dark green full morocco gilt, spine gilt decorated between compartments, (by the Dove's Bindery), signed and dated 1894 to foot of rear endpaper, 8vo (Qty: 3) ESTC T146537: PMM 256; Reed A4; Rothschild 2603 (for the second volume). First complete edition, comprising of the second edition of volume 1, and the first edition of volume 2; Wordsworth's famous preface, 'The Revolutionary manifesto of the romantic poets' (PMM), appears here in the second edition of the first volume, for the first time. In volume 1, signatures [a]3andI3-4 are counsels (the new [a]3 being one of two variants, with the first volume 'TfV' in line 1 recto, some copies having 'The First Volume'; Reed refers to a first state of the first volume, with no counsels, which was 'probably not issued'. Volume two has signatures O1-2 in their uncounselled first state and page 210 consequently with ten lines only. Rothschild describes such copies as first issue. According to Reed there were 750 copies of Volume 1, and 1,000 copies of volume 2 printed. The Dove's Bindery had been set up by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson in 1893, and aimed to establish bookbinding as a fine art using the highest quality materials and the best manual binding techniques.