NMLP P-038226 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Lyrical Ballads

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Biggs and Cottle for T. N. Longman, Bristol (reissued London: J. and A. Arch) · 1798

The cardinal internal point is the Lewti cancel: after printing was finished, Coleridge's "Lewti" was removed — it had already appeared over his name in a newspaper and would have broken the volume's anonymity — and replaced by "The Nightingale", the contents leaf and signatures D8 and E1-2 being cancelled so that three leaves of "Lewti" gave way to four of "The Nightingale"

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038226 for "Lyrical Ballads" by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038226, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).