Note 451 — A WORDSWORTH BIBLIOGRAPHY
Reading edition
Volumes one and two are dated 1836; the remaining four 1837. This edition was stereotyped. It was reprinted in 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1846, 1849, etc.; and some of the reprints contain slight variations of text, etc. All the editions issued after 1841 include the volume, Poems of Early and Late Years (see No. 37) as a seventh volume. After 1850 The Prelude was added as an eighth volume.
In the first volume of this edition there is a steel engraving by Mr. Watt of a portrait of the Poet by W. Pickersgill, which is in St. John’s College, Cambridge. This engraving was reproduced in the editions of 1840, 1841, and following ones.—Ed.