A little less than a day left for nominations.
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I have in mind the original 1798 edition.   The formatting looks fine to me in that edition. |
My apologies; I may not have been clear enough in what I was wondering about. I knew from your first post that you meant the 1798 edition; what I was saying was that that edition was showing as having very different page numbers on different editions in goodreads. For instance, take a look at a sampling of the different editions, all of which say they are the original 1798 edition:
Lyrical Ballads, 1798, 403 pages
Lyrical Ballads, 1798, 128 pages
Lyrical Ballads, 1798, 552 pages
Lyrical Ballads, 1798, 98 pages
Lyrical Ballads, 1798, 251 pages
So I was saying that I don't understand why that is because I haven't researched it - I just noticed it as I was linking the nomination to goodreads - and that, if there is no further enlightenment as to why, if it wins and people download from different sources they may end up with different versions even though they think they have the same.
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It's worth mentioning that one can get the Oxford edition in the Kindle store which has both the 1798 and 1802 editions allowing one to make textual comparisons. Gutenberg also has a two volume edition from 1800 but the formatting in that edition gets some justified complaints.
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This could very well be the reason for the different page lengths of the original edition; some editions of those could be mislabelled as the original 1798 edition even though they're longer.