[WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM]. The Poems. With Introduction and Notes Edited by Thomas Hutchinson. London: Humphrey Milford - OUP, 1916.
First edition thus. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (190 x 125 mm.), pp. [xxxii], 986. English text in double column. Handsome contemporary tree calf [signed 'Oxford Binding' in gilt to bottom of front pastedown]; five raised spine bands; compartments and bands ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt; blue-green morocco lettering-piece in second compartment; gilt ruled border on boards and edges; upper board with gilt armorial crest of Church of England Girls Grammar School; turn-ins blind stamped; marbled page edges and endpapers; half-title; portrait frontispiece with tissue guard; title-page with printers device; initial and terminal blanks present; footnotes; appendices and index to rear. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, the hinges perfectly intact. Covers and contents remarkably fresh and clean, with minor browning to endleaves. Prize plate to front pastedown. An exquisite book.
