PROSE WRITINGS OF WORDSWORTH

Walter Scott, London, no date but believe late 1800s to early 1900s.  Hard cover, 198 pages plus ads.  Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on front board, rubbed gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt.  Some edge, corner and spine end wear, a few marks on boards; binding sound.  Prior owner’s name and date on front paste-down, remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  ‘His [the editor’s] aim has been to collect, from all sources, the most interesting specimens of Wordsworth’s prose writing, not so much as samples of his style, as of his mode of treating both great and small problems.  They illustrate the genius of the poet, cutting directly down through difficulties, and thus solving problems, with which the logical understanding is less competent to deal, by the simple force of intuition.’ (from Preface)