[489] The last two named are exactly as in 1843, except that they are printed on larger paper. Why one is put down 32mo and the other 24mo is a mystery! C. M. ST. JOHN. [490] If this edition was published, it seems to have disappeared. It is advertised in A. V. Blake’s _American Booksellers’ Complete Trade List_, published at Claremont, N.H., 1847. C. M. ST. JOHN. [491] Copyright in 1848. It contains about one-fifth of all Wordsworth’s poems. The Essay, which occupies ten pages, is taken “by permission” from Tuckerman’s _Thoughts on Poets_. C. M. ST. JOHN. [492] In connection with this edition, I can vouch for the five firms of Publishers in Philadelphia, but I cannot explain it. C. M. ST. JOHN. [493] “This edition contains some pieces omitted--inadvertently it is believed--from the latest London edition.” Additional poems have been introduced, and the arrangement changed since the 1839 edition. C. M. ST. JOHN. [494] This edition contains a remarkable “Sketch of Wordsworth’s Life,” by James Russell Lowell, which was afterwards embodied, with additions, in _Among my Books_. Mr. Ellis Yarnall believed that this edition was an English reprint. I doubt this from the fact that it is “Entered according to the Act of Congress in 1854,” and was “Printed at Cambridge by H.O. Houghton.” C. M. ST. JOHN. [495] This edition is mentioned in some lists, but I am inclined to doubt if it can be authenticated. C. M. ST. JOHN. [496] The size is given as 32mo. I have not seen the book. C. M. ST. JOHN. [497] Edited by Waldron J. Cheney, though not credited to him. C. M. ST. JOHN. [498] No date is given to this edition. The firm-name and place of business according to the Boston Directory would limit the date of the title page at least to 1863-65. It is in the New Haven Library. Allibone notes a volume of “Selections,” Boston, 12mo, 1863, which may be this. C. M. ST. JOHN. [499] I have placed the two works together, as they are closely related, if not identical. The edition contains _The Excursion_ and fifty-seven other poems. C. M. ST. JOHN. [500] From plates of the 1854 edition, with changes. C. M. ST. JOHN. [501] This excellent edition--as to selection, size, paper, binding, and illustrations--is the best handy edition of Wordsworth issued in America. C. M. ST. JOHN. [502] Eighty-eight of the sonnets are here illustrated with rare skill and artistic effect. The illustrations first appeared in wood-cuts in Harper’s _Monthly Magazine_. C. M. ST. JOHN. II REPRINTS, AND BOOKS, BOTH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN