Lyrical Ballads 1789 and 1800

While I was reading the assigned articles and the MLA guidelines for editors and scholarly editions, I realized that most of these issues that were presented mainly reflected the consistent alteration of the work by the authors specifically by William Wordsworth. The book I am presenting is not a typical version of the poems, but it is a scholarly edition that brings to discussion two editions of the work. What makes this edition unique is that it brings everything an academic reader needs in order to understand its reception at time of publication and nowadays. The book starts with an introduction that stimulates the readers’ eagerness to read the book through. “Reckoned as Nothing” raises many questions as subtitle. Are the editors referring to the Lyrical Ballads?  How come they say such a thing about a well-known work? Therefore, the readers with defensive mood would start reading with attentive mind to find an erroneous in the logic of the writers. From there the editor “Michael Gamer and Dahlia Porter” would take the readers in a journey to discover how Wordsworth and Coleridge appeared in the map of romantic literature by answering a variety of inquires that draws a picture to how these two iconic figures met, decided to work together and what happened to their friendship. The edition includes massive footnotes that explain everything a reader might need to form an idea about the poems presented. Moreover, the editors add some maps that mapped the poems. Although, the book does emphasis what versions of the work were used, it did not say exactly who published the versions used. At the end, I want to raise this inquire, which I hope we could discuss in the class, where are we supposed to find all the information about the edition if it is not stated in the beginning of the book?