The prelude, or Growth of a poet's mind : an autobiographical poem

"The present Poem was intended to be introductory to the Recluse ..." of which the second part alone, the Excursion, was finished--"Advertisement" p. vi-vii Half-title "London : Bradbury and Evans, Printers, Whitefriars."--Title page verso Reed, M.L. Bibliography of William Wordsworth, 1787-1930 Healey, G.H. Cornell Wordsworth Collection Wise, T.J. Two Lake poets Burns Library copy 1: first edition, first state, embossed purple cloth trade binding with 8-page advertisements, dated July 1850, inserted at front; additional leaf of advertisements "Wordsworth's poems" on leaf 2C₂ recto at end