The 1869 printing of the Moxon collective volume The Poems of William Wordsworth (A78.II.d) was the eighth and largest printing from plates first used in 1845 (A78.I.a), producing a total of 3,500 copies, of which 500 were for a 12s 6d “Authorized Edition” issue and 3,000 for a 9s “Only Complete Popular Edition” issue. The publisher's estimate of demand for the volume was badly miscalculated with regard both to total quantity and to quantities of the respective issues. The estimate for the total was over-optimistic, and copies of the book remained on hand for two decades; yet would-be purchasers of the more expensive issue were far more numerous than the 500 anticipated. The publisher's expedients for disposing of the surplus of 9s copies produced bibliographically confusing variants in the book's sheets and insets; and the marketing history is further obscured by inconsistencies in terminology of advertisements and house accounts. The 12s 6d issue, first titled “Authorized Edition,” the original sheets of which bulk an imposing 4.8 cm, is in advertisements called the “Imperial 8vo Edition,” while in most accounts (those for years other than 1882–1885) it is called the “Royal” edition. The 9s “Popular Edition,” on sheets that bulk only 3.4 cm, is called in advertisements the “Royal 8vo” Edition, yet in most accounts (those for years other than 1882–1885) is called the “Imperial” edition. In the 1882–1885 accounts terminology is temporarily coincident with that of advertisements (if not with title pages), and the 12s 6d issue is temporarily called the “Imperial” edition and the 9s issue called the “Royal” edition.