Lyrical Ballads

No book-club editions exist for a work of this period. The reprint and "first thus" traps are substantial: the second edition (London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800) is in two volumes, names Wordsworth alone on the title, and adds the celebrated Preface — it is a major book in its own right and the first appearance of the Preface, but it is not the 1798 first, and its later two-volume printings of 1802 and 1805 are commonly miscatalogued as firsts. Copies made up from mixed sheets are recorded, and a first-edition set can legitimately be second issue in one volume and first issue in another. Later 19th- and 20th-century editions and the many modern scholarly and facsimile reprints (including student editions of the 1798 and 1802 texts) reproduce the text only.