The excursion : being a portion of The recluse, a poem
William Wordsworth (Author), Thomas Davison (Printer), Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (Publisher)
Print Book, English, 1814
[First edition, second issue] View all formats and editions
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, London, 1814
poetry
xx pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 4-447 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 28 cm
1108654590
Book first: The wanderer
Book second: The solitary
Book third: Despondency
Book fourth: Despondency corrected
Book fifth: The pastor
Book sixth: The church-yard among the mountains
Book seventh: The church-yard among the mountains, continued
Book eighth: The parsonage
Book ninth: Discourse of the wanderer, &c
Half-title on page [i]
Printer statement from title page verso; also on unnumbered page at end (verso of page 447)
Second issue is identified by details of gathering Y, which was revised during printing and reset, with signature "Y2" added to its second leaf. In this second state and first issue, new Y1 (pages 161-162) accidentally omitted two lines; a cancel Y1 was printed and used for remaining copies, constituting the third state and second issue. In this second issue, the last line on cancel page 161 is "In silent congress; or together rouzed," and on page 162, "Cleave not so fondly to your moody Cell" (see Reed, pages 35-37)
Some copies issued with errata leaf, often found inserted following page xx or at end of volume
"Essay upon epitaphs", prose, originally published in the Friend, February 22, 1810, included in Notes (pages 431-446)
Signatures : [a]⁴ b⁴ c² B-3L⁴