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The poetical works of William Wordsworth

Wordsworth, William · 1878 · London · 32 pictures

An 1878 London edition of William Wordsworth's collected poems, issued for Victorian household readers with small wood-engraved ornaments. The vignettes are botanical sprays of leaves, buds and berries drawn in fine parallel-line shading and fitted into circles, arches, lunettes and quatrefoil frames, giving designers ready-made chapter heads, tailpieces and shaped panels of plant detail.

British Library · HMNTS 11611.ccc.25. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)