WILLIAM Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes is to be re-published in a new paperback edition, as edited by the Grasmere Wordsworth scholar Ernest de Selincourt in 1906.

Wordsworth's Guide, written almost 200 years ago, is still regarded as a leading work in its field. Written in 1810 as notes to accompany a set of illustrations, the poet was keen to show visitors to the "district of the Lakes" and advised how, and from where, to view the landscape to its greatest advantage.

Ernest de Selincourt was living at Ladywood, a house overlooking Grasmere, when he edited Wordsworth's famous guide. He added an introductory essay with extensive notes, which point up the thought processes Wordsworth himself went through as he developed the work and also provided a comprehensive survey of early Lakeland guidebooks and descriptive works.

Professor Stephen Gill, of Oxford University, a leading authority on Wordsworth and Romantic poetry, has added a foreword.

All the original illustrations have been re-sourced from the collections of the Armitt Museum, Gallery and Library in Ambleside.

Director of the Wordsworth Trust Robert Woof will launch the book at Ladywood on Sunday, at a garden party coinciding with the centenary of Ladywood.

Published by Frances Lincoln, de Selincourt's edition is being regarded by the publisher as definitive.