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Printed by Bulgin and Rosser for J. Cottle, Bath. 1797. First Edition, [viii],xl,276pp., cont. calf, rebacked, red morocco label to spine. “Contains a distinguished list of subscribers including ‘Mr. S.T. Coleridge, Stowey’, Rev. J.P. Estlin’, ‘Mr. William Gilbert’, ‘Mr. J. Lovell’, ‘Azariah Pinney, Esq.’, ‘J.F. Pinney, Esq.’, ‘Mr. T. Poole, Stowey’, and ‘Mr. Robert Southey’. Wordsworth’s ownership of this book has long been acknowledged... One or two interesting borrowings can be found in Adventures of Salisbury Plain - originally composed 1795, but surviving only in a manuscript text of 1799... These borrowings would suggest that Wordsworth revised parts of Adventures on Salisbury Plain between the time of his reading Ahmed, c. June 1797, and March 1798, when Coleridge offered it to Cottle for publication.” - (Duncan Wu, Professor of English Language and Literature, St Catherine’s College, Oxford). |
