[446] In this edition—copied without authority, from the poet or his publishers, and with many errata, from the issue of 1827—there is an engraving of Wordsworth by Mr. Wedgewood, after the portrait by Carruthers, now in the possession of Mr. Hutchinson at Kimbolton. The Galignani edition of Southey is even worse; three poems, not by Southey, being included in it.—Ed.
[447] The editor of these selections was Joseph Hine.—Ed.
[448] The “Advertisement” to this edition is as follows:—“The contents of the last edition in five volumes are compressed into the present of four, with some additional pieces reprinted from miscellaneous publications.”—Ed.
[449] As this volume (No. 32 in the list) was the last printed for the Messrs. Longman, and issued by that firm and by Mr. Moxon jointly, it is desirable to mention here, in a footnote, that, with the exception of The Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches (which were published by J. Johnson) every one of Wordsworth’s works from 1798 to 1836—thirty in number—were introduced to the world by the Messrs. Longman. It is questionable if any firm has ever had a similar “record” in connection with the works of any great poet.—Ed.
[450] A reprint of the sixth volume of the 1836-37 edition. It was again reprinted in 1841, 1844, and 1847.—Ed.
[451] Volumes one and two are dated 1836; the remaining four 1837. This edition was stereotyped. It was reprinted in 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1846, 1849, etc.; and some of the reprints contain slight variations of text, etc. All the editions issued after 1841 include the volume, Poems of Early and Late Years (see No. 37) as a seventh volume. After 1850 The Prelude was added as an eighth volume.
In the first volume of this edition there is a steel engraving by Mr. Watt of a portrait of the Poet by W. Pickersgill, which is in St. John’s College, Cambridge. This engraving was reproduced in the editions of 1840, 1841, and following ones.—Ed.
[452] This edition includes (as its “Advertisement” tells us) “twelve new Sonnets which were composed while the sheets were going through the press.”—Ed.
[453] Mr. Tutin writes in his Wordsworth Bibliography:—“This Pocket edition of Yarrow Revisited, etc., is the third separate issue of the Poem. It seems to have been intended as a supplementary volume to the four vol. edition of 1832, as the sheets of it are all imprinted ‘Vol. v.,’ but I have no direct proof that it was ever so issued.”—Ed.
[454] In his “Advertisement” the Author states that about one-third of the Poem Guilt and Sorrow was written in 1794, and was published in the year 1798 under the title of The Female Vagrant.—Ed.