[441] In 1820 the four separate publications, _The Waggoner_, etc., _Thanksgiving Ode_, etc., _Peter Bell_, etc., and _The River Duddon, Vaudracour and Julia_, etc., were bound up together with their separate title-pages, and issued under the title, _Poems by William Wordsworth_, making Volume III. of the _Miscellaneous Poems_.--ED. [442] Each of these volumes contained an engraving from a picture by Sir George Beaumont. They were “Lucy Gray,” “Peter Bell,” “The White Doe of Rylstone,” and “Peele Castle.” All had appeared in previous editions. The “Advertisement” states that this edition contains the whole of the published poems of the Author, with the exception of _The Excursion_, and that a few Sonnets “are now first published.” It is worthy of note that, in this edition, Wordsworth for the first time abandoned the practice of putting in an apostrophe, instead of a vowel letter, in words ending with “ed,” and in similar cases of contraction.--ED. [443] Wordsworth added to this series of Sonnets, in the one-volume edition of 1845 which contained 132. In the first edition, there were 102 sonnets.--ED. [444] This originally appeared as an Introduction to Wilkinson’s _Select Views in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire_, which was published in 1810. In 1820 it was included (see No. 18) in _The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets_. In 1823 a fourth edition appeared which was a reprint of that of 1822.--ED. [445] To this edition Wordsworth prefixed the following “Advertisement”:--“In these volumes will be found the whole of the Author’s published poems, for the first time collected in a uniform edition, with several new pieces interspersed.”--ED. [446] In this edition--copied without authority, from the poet or his publishers, and with many errata, from the issue of 1827--there is an engraving of Wordsworth by Mr. Wedgewood, after the portrait by Carruthers, now in the possession of Mr. Hutchinson at Kimbolton. The Galignani edition of Southey is even worse; three poems, not by Southey, being included in it.--ED. [447] The editor of these selections was Joseph Hine.--ED. [448] The “Advertisement” to this edition is as follows:--“The contents of the last edition in five volumes are compressed into the present of four, with some additional pieces reprinted from miscellaneous publications.”--ED. [449] As this volume (No. 32 in the list) was the last printed for the Messrs. Longman, and issued by that firm and by Mr. Moxon jointly, it is desirable to mention here, in a footnote, that, with the exception of _The Evening Walk_ and _Descriptive Sketches_ (which were published by J. Johnson) every one of Wordsworth’s works from 1798 to 1836--thirty in number--were introduced to the world by the Messrs. Longman. It is questionable if any firm has ever had a similar “record” in connection with the works of any great poet.--ED. [450] A reprint of the sixth volume of the 1836-37 edition. It was again reprinted in 1841, 1844, and 1847.--ED.