[480] The first American edition, and the first work by Wordsworth, printed in America. It looks as if the Poet found appreciative readers in America sooner than in England; the first edition of “Lyrical Ballads,” which had fallen dead in his own country in 1798, being published in Philadelphia in 1802. The American edition was delayed in the press, in order to include certain pieces which first appeared in the second (English) edition of 1802. See Humphreys’ Preface. A copy of “Lyrical Ballads,” 1802, is in the possession of Judge Henry Reed, with exactly the same title-page as the above, except that it reads-- “Printed by James Humphreys for Joseph Groff.” It is believed that the work was printed at the joint expense of Humphreys and Groff, each bookseller taking a certain number of copies upon which was placed his individual imprint. Both book-sellers advertised the volumes almost simultaneously. I know of another copy of (1802) “Lyrical Ballads,” of which the first volume contains the imprint of Humphreys, and the second volume that of Groff. The two volumes are bound together, and are _identical_ in type, paper, etc. C. M. ST. JOHN. [481] Amongst the contents there are four long extracts from _The Excursion_, with titles attributed to W.W. _Goody Blake and Harry Gill_ is amongst the extracts from “Lyrical Ballads,” and there is a long note to the former poem by Joseph Dennie. C. M. ST. JOHN. [482] The first collected edition of Wordsworth’s Poems printed in America. C. M. ST. JOHN. [483] The sketch is by R. H. Home. The poems are _The Last of the Flock_, _The Dungeon_, _The Mad Mother_, _Anecdote for Fathers_, _We are Seven_, _Lines Written in Early Spring_, _The Female Vagrant_, _Goody Blake and Harry Gill_, _The Waterfall and the Eglantine_, _The Oak and the Broom_, _Lucy Gray_, _Hart-Leap Well_, _Lucy_, _Nutling_, _Ruth_. C. M. ST. JOHN. [484] Printed and published by Peck and Newton. C. M. ST. JOHN. [485] First double-column edition of the poems, adopted by Moxon in 1845 edition. C. M. ST. JOHN. [486] The Boxall portrait was engraved for the above. I could not find the 1844 imprint, but presume that it is the same as that of 1837 and 1839. C. M. ST. JOHN. [487] In an editorial of April 16 of “The New World” is the following: “We are enabled by the purchase of the printed sheets considerably in advance of their publication in England to present the first and only American Editions of new poems by William Wordsworth.” C. M. ST. JOHN. [488] This is spoken of in Ellis Yarnall’s Reminiscences as having no date. When John Locken--the first publisher--failed, the plates passed into the possession of Messrs. Uriah Hunt and Son. They retired from business, and Messrs. Leavitt and Co. took the plates. It is possible that there was an edition earlier than 1843. C. M. ST. JOHN.