WORDSWORTH (WILLIAM)
DEARDEN (WILLIAM) The Star-seer: A Poem, in Five Cantos, FIRST EDITION, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S COPY, INSCRIBED IN HIS HAND 'W. Wordsworth from the Author' on the half-title, and signed again 'W. Wordsworth' above 'Rydal Mount' (in ?another nineteenth century hand) on the title-page, publisher's plain cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, yellow endpapers, covers and front free endpaper dampstained, 8vo, Longman, Rees (etc.) and Halifax, Leyland and Son, 1837
Footnotes:
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH'S COPY FROM RYDAL MOUNT, SIGNED TWICE BY HIM, noting that it had been gifted to him by the author. Yorkshire-born poet William Dearden (1803-1889) was at one time a schoolmaster at Keighley, and a friend of Revd. Patrick and Branwell Brontë (whom he heard read aloud from a draft of Wuthering Heights in a local pub), and doyen of the local literary scene, as the editor of Dearden's Miscellany. In the notes to The Star-seer (p.217) Dearden mentions a 'sacred edifice [which] might vie in situation with the hallowed pile near Rydal Mount', home of course to Wordsworth.
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