Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Bibliographic Procedures
- A Separate Single-author Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides
- A Separate Single-author Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides
- B First and Personally Contributed Printings in Separate Books and Pamphlets not Principally by Wordsworth
- C First and Personally Contributed Printings in Journals and Other Intermittent Publications not Books
- Appendices
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Bibliographic Procedures
- A Separate Single-author Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides
- A Separate Single-author Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides
- B First and Personally Contributed Printings in Separate Books and Pamphlets not Principally by Wordsworth
- C First and Personally Contributed Printings in Journals and Other Intermittent Publications not Books
- Appendices
Summary
This bibliography reports three kinds of printings of William Wordsworth's formal writings, through 1930: in Section A, separate books, pamphlets, and broadsides principally by Wordsworth, with description of physical features and contents; in Section B, by checklist, first and personally contributed printings in separate books, pamphlets not principally by Wordsworth; in Section C, by checklist, first and personally contributed printings in journals and other intermittent publications not books. Regarded as “single-author” are printings in which the writings are Wordsworth's alone or these are the primary substance of the printing. Regarded as “personally contributed” are printings in which Wordsworth was an active agent or participant in the printing, as distinguished from ones for which he gave permission upon request or tolerated after the fact. (Such permission was routinely forthcoming, and, for the most part, such tolerance.) All sections are arranged chronologically. First printings of individual writings are specified as such, item by item, in all. In this respect the reports complement those of the Cornell Wordsworth, which provides similar information for individual writings non-chronologically. Two insufficiencies in presently available information have been of special concern. One is of detailed descriptions of the physical forms and quantities of posthumous printings. The other is of identifications of the particular texts of Wordsworth's writings that were reproduced in those printings.
The only nineteenth-century general bibliographies of Wordsworth providing a modicum of systematic physical description are those of J. R. Tutin, in the 1888 Macmillan collective edition, Edward Dowden, in his 1892 collective edition, and William Knight, in his 1896 collective edition.
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- A Bibliography of William Wordsworth1787–1930, pp. xi - xviiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013