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Lyrical Ballads, 1800: Cancel Leaves
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
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The literary, critical, historical, and biographical importance of Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads of 1800 gives added attraction and significance to the intrinsically interesting bibliographical features of the two volumes. The following notes on cancel leaves and variant readings in the books will perhaps be welcomed not only by bibliographers, collectors, and persons curious in the solving of problems, but also by critics professing larger concerns. The notes are based on a personal study of forty-five copies of Volume i (six in original boards) and fifty-two copies of Volume ii (seven in original boards).
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1 I am grateful to Dr. Tinker for permission to quote the pertinent passages of his copy—as I am to the Yale University Library for permission to indicate the features herein from the Longman MS.; to Dr. L. N. Broughton for notes on the copy at Cornell University; to the authorities of the Henry E. Huntington Library, and the libraries of Columbia University, and Amherst and Wellesley Colleges, for information on their copies of the books; and to Maggs Bros, and many other British booksellers for permission to collate their volumes.
2 Wise, Bibliography of Wordsworth (1916), p. 44; Two Lake Poets (1927), p. 9;— Yale Library Gazette, July, 1933, p. 43.
3 de Selincourt, Early Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth (1935), p. 255; W. Hale White, A Description of the Wordsworth and Coleridge Manuscripts . . . (1897), p. 27; Knight, Letters of the Wordsworth Family (1907), i, '
4 Hale White, Description, p. 44.
5 Hale White, Description, pp. 19, 27, 29; de Selincourt, Early Letters, pp. 255–256, 257.
6 Hale White, Description, pp. 21, 27, 30; de Selincourt, Early Letters, pp. 250, 255, 257.
7 My suggestion that a second setting up of a cancel without change of wording in the Preface of the same volume was due to a deficiency in the number of copies first run off, might confirm and be confirmed by a deficiency here.
8 On Knight's “MS” and his “2nd issue,” see Sections VII and VIII, below.
9 Bibliography of . . . Wordsworth (1916), p. 47; Two Lake Poets (1927), p. 8.
10 1896, i, 746, and ii, 35; see also 1896, i, 620, 681.
11 Description, pp. 3–4.
12 Edn Lyrical Ballads 1798–1805 (1903), p. xxvii.
13 Athenaeum, 1896, ii, 35.
14 Description, p. 33.
15 de Selincourt, Early Letters, pp. 258, 268; Hale White, Description, pp. 29–34.
16 de Selincourt, Early Letters, p. 266. I quote from the original, MS. British Museum Additional 35,344 f. 146r.
17 de Selincourt, Early Letters, p. 258.
18 Lucas, Letters (London, 1935), i, 239.
19 de Selincourt, Early Letters, pp. 256–259.
20 See my article in Studies in Philology, xviii, 15–76.
21 Early Letters, p. 263.
22 de Selincourt, Early Letters, p. 270.
23 Letters, ed. E. H. Coleridge (Boston, 1895), i, 350.
24 Description, pp. 3–4.
25 de Selincourt, Early Letters, p. 257.
26 In another article I shall present further material concerning the missing lines and the 1800 Lyrical Ballads.
27 Athenaeum, June 6, July 4, 1896.
28 Anderson Galleries Catalogue of Sale March 11–12, 1930, item 358.
29 Cp. Letters 108, 116, 118, 121, 122, 124, 126, 127, 144, 146, on old clothes and box, S.T.C. and the 30£ and Longman, John's 20£, Griffith and American flour, Fox's reply (sent May 25, 1801); and note the failure to mention Mary and the baby.
30 LTLS, 1932, p. 316.
31 LTLS, 1932, p. 202.
32 See my forthcoming article on these 1820 title-pages.
33 Athenaeum, February 17, 1894.
34 See my article on Signature G, leaf 1, of 1798, in LTLS, 1932, 464; also Dr. G. F. Whicher, The Colophon, New Series, ii, 370.