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
- I Lyrical Ballads, 1800
- II Poems by William Wordsworth, Vol. 3, 1820
- III The Number of Printings and Sets of Stereo Plates of the 1828 Galignani Edition of The Poetical Works
- IV The 1869 Printing of the Moxon Double-Column Edition of The Poems of William Wordsworth
- V Printings and Texts of Pastoral Poems, 1858
- VI Bindings of the Crowell Poetical Works (third edition, 1892–) and Arnold's Poems of Wordsworth (1892–)
- VII Editorially Composited Texts in Matthew Arnold's Poems of Wordsworth
- VIII Editorial Titles of Wordsworth's Poems
IV - The 1869 Printing of the Moxon Double-Column Edition of The Poems of William Wordsworth
from Appendices
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
- I Lyrical Ballads, 1800
- II Poems by William Wordsworth, Vol. 3, 1820
- III The Number of Printings and Sets of Stereo Plates of the 1828 Galignani Edition of The Poetical Works
- IV The 1869 Printing of the Moxon Double-Column Edition of The Poems of William Wordsworth
- V Printings and Texts of Pastoral Poems, 1858
- VI Bindings of the Crowell Poetical Works (third edition, 1892–) and Arnold's Poems of Wordsworth (1892–)
- VII Editorially Composited Texts in Matthew Arnold's Poems of Wordsworth
- VIII Editorial Titles of Wordsworth's Poems
Summary
The 1869 printing of the Moxon collective volume The Poems of William Wordsworth (A78.II.d) was the eighth and largest printing from plates first used in 1845 (A78.I.a), producing a total of 3,500 copies, of which 500 were for a 12s 6d “Authorized Edition” issue and 3,000 for a 9s “Only Complete Popular Edition” issue. The publisher's estimate of demand for the volume was badly miscalculated with regard both to total quantity and to quantities of the respective issues. The estimate for the total was over-optimistic, and copies of the book remained on hand for two decades; yet would-be purchasers of the more expensive issue were far more numerous than the 500 anticipated. The publisher's expedients for disposing of the surplus of 9s copies produced bibliographically confusing variants in the book's sheets and insets; and the marketing history is further obscured by inconsistencies in terminology of advertisements and house accounts. The 12s 6d issue, first titled “Authorized Edition,” the original sheets of which bulk an imposing 4.8 cm, is in advertisements called the “Imperial 8vo Edition,” while in most accounts (those for years other than 1882–1885) it is called the “Royal” edition. The 9s “Popular Edition,” on sheets that bulk only 3.4 cm, is called in advertisements the “Royal 8vo” Edition, yet in most accounts (those for years other than 1882–1885) is called the “Imperial” edition. In the 1882–1885 accounts terminology is temporarily coincident with that of advertisements (if not with title pages), and the 12s 6d issue is temporarily called the “Imperial” edition and the 9s issue called the “Royal” edition.
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- A Bibliography of William Wordsworth1787–1930, pp. 1179 - 1181Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013