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Franklin Library leather edition of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads," a Limited edition, Illustrated by Ronald Keller, the text of the 1798 edition with the additional poems of 1800, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME series, published in 1982. Bound in a hunter green leather, the book has matching moire silk end leaves, a satin book marker, Symth-sewn binding, acid-free paper, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. William Wordsworth, who lived from 1770 – 1850, was a major English Romantic poet who helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the publication "Lyrical Ballads." This volume includes his most famous poems. Wordsworth was Britain's POET LAUREATE from 1843 until his death in 1850. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who lived from 1772-1834, was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. Wordsworth's poems: "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud," "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," "The Mad Mother," "We Are Seven," "Poor Susan," "A Poet's Epitaph," "Rural Architecture," "The Childless Father," "Ruth," and Others. This volume also includes Coleridge's "Goody Blake and Harry Gill," "Lines Written in Early Spring," "The Thorn," "The Last of the Flock," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." 274 pages. I offer Combined shipping.