The White Doe of Rylstone

Item author: William Wordsworth
Item date: 1815
Grant Value: £3,000
Item cost: £9,000
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2007
Item institution: Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage
Town/City: Grasmere
County: Cumbria

Originally composed in 1807-8, The White Doe tells the story of the Rising of the North against Elizabeth I in 1569. The present copy is the first edition, quarto,1815, in its original boards, with annotations in the hand of Mary Wordsworth for its publication in Miscellaneous Poems, 1820.

Item Provenance
Jarndyce, Booksellers, London