THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (EIGHT VOLUMES)

Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, (circa 1900). An excellent eight volume set of Wordsworth in the original box. 24 mo., uniformly bound in scarlet cloth with decorative gilt spines. All edges stained red. Portrait frontispiece. The books are in pristine condition..as fine and bright as the day they were published. The original box is also covered in scarlet cloth and lined with gilt patterned paper. This chaste set was presented to Miss Madge Wilde in 1903 as a prize for English Studies at St. Monica's, Skipton..with the prize certificate affixed to the inside of the box lid. Aside from a small split to one corner of the box, this is a fine set..quite rare, particularly in this condition.