But, even with yet another "infamous Blunder of the Printer," Lyrical Ballads 1800 is a valuable facsimile, which ought to save wear and tear on the increasingly fragile originals, and will allow us to study the publication as a whole, at our leisure and in our homes, and (which is more important) in our classrooms. A more serious problem is the omission of page 126 of volume 2, containing the last four stanzas of "The Two April Mornings." Surely, in an $85 book, this is a mistake that someone could have noticed and corrected. The quality of the photographic reproductions is reasonably good, although the original copy used for volume 2 seems to have been tightly bound, and as a result the reprinted text looks a bit squeezed along the inner margins of the recto pages. Both volumes of Lyrical Ballads are reprinted, conveniently bound as one (a common nineteenth-century practice, as well as a cost-saving measure), and, as usual, Jonathan Wordsworth has written a brief (and, for the series, somewhat contentious) introduction to the whole. Lyrical Ballads 1800 is a welcome addition to Jonathan Wordsworth's distinguished facsimile reprint series, Revolution & Romanticism, 1789-1834.
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