Note 442 — A WORDSWORTH BIBLIOGRAPHY
Reading edition
Each of these volumes contained an engraving from a picture by Sir George Beaumont. They were “Lucy Gray,” “Peter Bell,” “The White Doe of Rylstone,” and “Peele Castle.” All had appeared in previous editions. The “Advertisement” states that this edition contains the whole of the published poems of the Author, with the exception of The Excursion, and that a few Sonnets “are now first published.”
It is worthy of note that, in this edition, Wordsworth for the first time abandoned the practice of putting in an apostrophe, instead of a vowel letter, in words ending with “ed,” and in similar cases of contraction.—Ed.