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Published by J. & A. Arch, 1798; T. N. Longman and O. Rees, London, 1800
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
175 x 105 mm. (6 3/4 x 4 1/8"). Two volumes. LOVELY CRIMSON CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY FRANCIS BEDFORD (stamp-signed on front turn-ins), covers with French fillet border, raised bands, spine compartments with distinctive urn-and-bird centerpiece surrounded by small tools, leafy cornerpieces, gilt titling, densely gilt turn-ins, dark green endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Front pastedowns with engraved bookplate of Harold Greenhill; from the collection of Bradley Martin (his sale, Sotheby's New York, 1 May 1990, lot 3333). Ashley VIII, 5-8; Hayward 202 (Bristol imprint); Grolier English 66; PMM 256 (the second edition, the "Manifesto of the Romantic Movement''); Rothschild 2603, 2604. â Short, faint scratch to one board (well-masked by dye), half a dozen leaves with expert paper repairs to short marginal tears (well away from text), a couple of faint spots of foxing, but AN ESPECIALLY FINE SET, clean, bright, and as amply margined as possible, in extremely lustrous and unworn bindings. This is a rarely seen set, offered here in extraordinarily fine and pretty bindings, of the two first editions often described as the inaugural event of the Romantic period. The printing of "Lyrical Ballads" constituted an experiment for the two young poets (Wordsworth was 28, Coleridge 26) in the modification of the traditional artificial verse styles in order to capture forceful sincerity and elemental human emotions. Their radical purpose was nothing short of the reformation of poetry by deposing an artificial literary tradition and substituting a new poetics, more in keeping with normal contemporary speech patterns, and to infuse their work with what Wordsworth called "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." Folk ballads, as "natural" poetry, formed their models for pieces that reveal a sense of lasting joy in nature and in experiences common to all humans. The volumes contain, among others, "Tintern Abbey," "Lines Written in Early Spring," "We Are Seven," "The Brothers," "Michael," and "The Ancyent Marinere," 10 stanzas of which appear only in this edition. Volume I is the second issue of the first edition, with London rather than Bristol identified as the place of publication on the title page; there is just one known and one hypothetical copy of the Bristol issue. Additional issue points for these volumes are: Vol. I: p. 19 reads "Oft" in line 10, p. 204 reads "woods" (with the final "s" and comma) in line 15 and "thought" (with the final "t" and comma) in line 17; Vol. II: 01-2 are uncancelled, p. 64 reads "Oft had I" in line 1 and "wide Moor" in line 6, p. 83 has a comma after "last days" in line 6, p. 92 reads "He" (capitalized) in line 2, and p. 129 has "when they please" properly spaced in line 11. The second volume offered here was originally issued with a companion first volume that was virtually a reprint of the 1798 volume; as a result of this reissue, and the two-year gap before the publication of the second volume, it can be difficult to find a set composed of our two first editions. For five years our binder Francis Bedford (1799-1883) managed the firm of Charles Lewis for the latter's widow and then was in a partnership for 10 years with John Clarke before establishing his own bindery in 1851. He shortly became recognized as the leading binder in fashionable West-end London, and his firm enjoyed prosperity not only until his death, but for 10 years afterwards, under the ownership of Joseph Shepherd. Bedford bindings are almost always elegantly traditional in their design and very handsome in the execution. This set was once owned by the extraordinarily discriminating American collector H. Bradley Martin (1906-88); his copy of any book will always be distinguished as having been a part of a library chosen by one of the most discerning of modern collectors. The heir to a steel fortune and a director at a leading New York investment bank, Martin was a member of the Grolier Club for 50 years and was one of the great American book collectors of the 20th century. His library of 10,000 volumes was sold at Sotheby's in nine sales during 1989-90; these volumes appeared in that sale as Lot 3333. Former owner Harold Greenhill (1893-1968) was a Chicago book collector, active in the Caxton and Grolier Clubs. These works, especially when offered together, are uncommon in general, and handsomely bound, choice copies like the present set are exceedingly hard to find. FIRST EDITION, Second (London) Issue of first volume; FIRST EDITION, First State of the second volume (p. 209 with last word of footnote in the middle of the page; p. 210 with 10 lines only; p. 211 with 19 lines, ending with "he thought again"; p. 212 with 19 lines, beginning with "And his heart fail'd him").
Published by Bristol: Published by the author, S. T. Coleridge: and sold by the booksellers and newscarriers in town and country, 1796, 1796
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First and only editions, the complete series of the young Coleridge's short lived radical political journal. Coleridge's journal was issued every eight days to avoid the duty levied on weekly papers. Aside from reports of current affairs, foreign and domestic, it contains 15 poems and 19 prose articles by Coleridge. The journal had a radical bent and was directed against the "profound demoralization of the liberal opposition in the face of the highly effective 'Gagging Acts' (which tightened the law on treason and banned large political gatherings)" (Kody, p. 145). Coleridge's role as a political journalist was long dismissed, with a "widespread consensus that The Watchman was political-poetic juvenilia" (ibid., p. 147). However, recent scholarship has emphasised the importance of the journal both for understanding Coleridge's developing political outlook and for its radicalism: "At a point of political crisis, a time when the opposition was wilting under the pressure of the Two Acts and despairing in the face of the continued war policy and the failure of reform and emancipation legislation, Coleridge offered the hope of a political theology that combined high-mind denunciations of instituted power with an emphasis on the political virtue of self-emptying, or kenosis, modelled on the figure of Christ, from the sight of which the abusers of power would be shamed into repentance" (ibid, p. 150). Public reception was not overwhelming, and The Watchman was finally cancelled after ten numbers, with Coleridge's simple statement that it did "not pay for expenses". Coleridge's subscribers came from different constituencies - radicals, metropolitan Whigs, non-conformist Christians, and agnostics: "Coleridge tried to adapt his political theology to each, but ended up offending all" (ibid., p. 153). Ashley I p. 196; Crane & Kaye, 916; ESTC P2094 (issue number 1 here in setting B, no established priority of issue); Haney 5; Tinker 677; Wise 7. Michael John Kody, "Coleridge as Editor: The Watchman and The Friend", in The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2012. 10 parts in 1 volume, octavo (212 x 131 mm). Early 19th-century green half sheep, spine lettered in gilt, marbled sides. Housed in a black cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Front pastedown with ownership inscription of Charles De La Pryme (1815-1899), lawyer & author, who corresponded with Dickens & Michael Faraday; also with the bookplate of Rowland Edmund Prothero (1851-1937), President of the Board of Agriculture from 1916 to 1919; old typed copy of article on The Watchman loosely inserted. Joints and extremities discreetly restored. First leaf browned with tiny burnhole with loss to one letter, else contents clean, leaf Q1 loosening at head. A very good copy.
Published by William Bulmer and Co for John Murray, London, 1816
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing bound in the publisher's ORIGINALl plain grey wrappers with the publisher's advertisements present after the last poem. The book is in great shape with minor wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy that contains the First Printings of three of Coleridge's most celebrated poems.
Published by Bristol: published by the Author. 1796, 1796
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
324 (320)pp. Tiny paper flaws in text, pp127/8 & 212/3; tiny hole in upper margin of p.215/6. Contemp. half calf, spine ruled in gilt, maroon leather label. vellum-tipped corners; spine a little rubbed, with some expertly executed minor repairs. Blind stamp of G.H. Radford to initial blank, & later label of John Davidson. Overall a v.g. copy of a SCARCE item. Wise 7. ESTC P2094. A complete run of Coleridge's short-lived periodical, conceived as a political mouthpiece '. that all might know the truth, and that the truth might make us free!'. Despite initial enthusiasm, The Watchman failed to attract subscribers in sufficient numbers to render it economically viable, leading Coleridge to admit to his friend Thomas Poole, '. my tradesmen's Bill[s]. amount to exactly five pounds more than the whole amount of my receipts'. In the tenth and final number, Coleridge wrote a valedictory address in which he considered the periodical's demise: 'Part of my Subscribers have relinquished it because it did not contain sufficient original composition, and a still larger number, because it contained too much.'. Although brief in existence, The Watchman contained the first printing of a number of important pieces, including To a Young Lady, The Present State of Society, Sonnet to Mercy, and A Morning Effusion. A mistake in printing led to Number VII commencing with p.197, despite the previous Number ending on p.192. This 4pp discrepancy means the complete Watchman is in 320pp, rather than 324pp as often stated.
Published by J & A. Arch; T.N. Longman and O. Rees. 1798; 1800, London, 1798
Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom
First Edition
2 vols. pp. (x), 69, (ii), 70 - 210, errata leaf, advert leaf; (iv), 227, errata. 8vo. Later full morocco binding by Zaendorf with gilt lettering and ruled lines on the spine, top edge gilt, gilt dentelles. Vol 1 pp 113/114, Vol 2 pp 171/172 invisably repaired. Vol 1 is the 1st edition, 2nd or London issue with Coleridge's Lewti replaced by his The Nightingale. This accounts for the break in the pagination of Vol 1 and its replacement Contents leaf ; Vol 2 is the 1st edition, 1st issue. A very attractive set. Wise. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of William Wordsworth p.28 & p. 34.
Published by n.p. 1795, 1795
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Handsomely bound in 19thC full tan calf by Rivière & Sons, gilt spine, triple-ruled borders, & dentelles. a.e.g. A beautiful copy of an extremely SCARCE item. ESTC T144276; Wise 3. Contains two addresses, delivered in February 1795: Introductory Address, observations on the events that led to the French Revolution, and On the Present War, a critical consideration of Britain's participation in the French Revolutionary Wars with particular opprobrium reserved for William Pitt. Coleridge was aware that his views might prove controversial, but observes in his brief preface, 'Truth should be spoken at all times, but more especially at those times, when to speak Truth is dangerous'. This copy was once part of the Hugh Selborne collection, and bears his discreet round library stamp on the verso of the titlepage.
Published by By the Author., Bristol, 1796
Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom
pp. 324. 8vo. Later full grain morocco, top edge gilt. Hinges slightly rubbed, heavy front free endpaper secured by archival tape. p. 35 printer's ink smear, text still legible. Wise p.20; Ashley Library Vol 1, p. 196 . Without title page and Content Leaf as issued. Part VI ends p 192 and Part VII begins p 197 as in all copies, otherwise the pagination is continiuos. ESTC P2094. Part I is the second or B issue with on p.2 the second line ending 'prevention; and the triple-giant'.
Published by (Bristol)?, (Bristol)?, 1795
Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom
pp. 69 - last leaf errata. Small 8vo. Half calf, marble boards, hinges slightly rubbed. Wise p. 10; ESTC T144276 who suggest Bristol as place of publication because Clevedo, where the Preface is dated from, is near Bristol.
Published by Published by the Author, Bristol, 1796
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
324 pp. 8vo. First edition. First edition. 324 pp. 8vo. "That all may know the truth; and that the truth may make us free!" First edition of Coleridge's political journal, undertaken to "create a rallying point for the Unitarians and moderate democrats in a radical Christian journal" (Holmes vol 1 p 106). Issued every eight days in order to avoid the tax levied on weekly papers. Each issue carried the tag line, "That all may know the truth; and that the truth may make us free!" For all its ambition, the enterprise folded after ten issues as it was unable to cover its costs. Coleridge would undertake another single-author journal with The Friend (1809-10; 1819). Ashley I, p.196; Tinker 677; Wise Coleridge 7. Provenance: Derby Mechanics' Institute (deaccession stamp to final leaf) Contemporary green half-calf and marbled boards, spine gilt in panels. Minor staining to a few leaves.
Published by Printed and Published by J. Brown [imprints vary], Penrith, 1810
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. Numbers 1-27 and the supernumerary number, all issued. With newspaper revenue stamp on each number. 448 pp. 8vo. When Coleridge launched this periodical he had 632 subscribers, but his measured, logical approach to metaphysical theory was too difficult for most of his readers, and the audience dropped off sharply. Included are some significant contributions by Wordsworth, including three essays, some sonnets, and an early fragment of "The Prelude." With the bookplate of the Victorian novelist William Hale White. Tinker 689 (noting Wordsworth references); Wise, Coleridge 20. Provenance: William Hale White (bookplate) Uncut, bound up from the original parts in later 19th-century full blue morocco, t.e.g. Spine faded, pages lightly soiled and creased Numbers 1-27 and the supernumerary number, all issued. With newspaper revenue stamp on each number. 448 pp. 8vo.
Published by Routledge, Kegan Paul & Princeton UP, 1969
Seller: Mathias Schoen, Bremen, Germany
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Complete set of this standard edition in unused and unmarked condition Volumes 1-16 bound in 34 volumes. Published 1969-2002. Extremely scarce as a complete set, especially in this condition. Book size is large octavo. Due to the long time of publication, the colour of the dustwrappers varies. Very heavy so shipping costs will have to be determined.
Published by T. N. Longman and O. Rees, London, 1800
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Complete Edition. A very dark green leather and marbled boards. Titled red leather labels to the spine. All page edges gilt. Newer plain endpapers. 2 volumes. XLvi, 210, [5] and 227 plus a single page of errata. First Complete Edition with the first volume being the Second Edition and which includes his important Preface (the manifesto of the romantic poets) , published here for the first time. Five pages of Notes at the end. A First Edition, first state of volume two with page 209 having the last word of footnote in the middle of the page; page 210 with 10 lines only; page 211 with 19 lines, ending with "he thought again"; page 212 with 19 lines, beginning with "And his heart fail'd him". In volume one there is some gentle waviness or rippling to the pages along the lower edges. When the covers are closed this is imperceptible and really quite minor. There is also a faint stain that affects the lower corners of the last hundred pages. This is also minor. A lovely set. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall.
Published by Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees . by Biggs ad Cottle, London, 1802
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Third edition. Third edition. [iv], lxiv, [2], 200, [4]; [iv], 250 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. The rare second two-volume edition of Lyrical Ballads. With several important changes from the 1800 edition - the Preface is expanded by 20 pages, Coleridge's "The Dungeon" and Wordsworth's "A Character" and "Lines Written Near Richmond" are withdrawn, and the appendix on poetic diction is included for the first time. Healey 12 & 13; Tinker 2332 19th-century half red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt-lettered. Rubbed, with some scuffing to spines. Contemporary ownership signatures to front paste-down. Bookplate [iv], lxiv, [2], 200, [4]; [iv], 250 pp. 2 vols. 8vo.
Published by Printed for G.G. and J. Robinsons, and J. Cottle, Bookseller, Bristol, London, 1796
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition of Coleridge's first book of poems, with half-title and ads. xvi, 188, [1, errata], [1, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of Coleridge's first book of poems, including Charles Lamb's first appearance in print. Complete with half-title, errata and advertisements. "Like Spenser he is a poet's poet" (DNB). Preceding Lyrical Ballads by two years, Poems on Various Subjects was published by Cottle in April 1796 and contained four sonnets by Charles Lamb, marking his first appearance in print. With the seldom-found half-title, and errata and ad leaves at the end. "An important literary volume" (Rosenbach 29:108). Hayward 206; Wise, Coleridge 8; CBEL III:173; Lowndes I:493; OCEL I:319; Tinker 678; Roth (Lamb), pages 3-10 Bound in near contemporary mottled calf, spine neatly laid down. Booklabel xvi, 188, [1, errata], [1, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo First Edition of Coleridge's first book of poems, with half-title and ads.
Published by G.G. and J. Robinson, London, 1796
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition of Coleridge's first published book of poetry. Small octavo (6 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 156 x 96 mm.). xvi, 188, [4, ads and errata] pp. Half-title, publisher's advertisements and errata all present. This title is often found without the ads and errata. Contemporary tree calf, in an unrestored state. Black morocco spine label. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Cover edges stamped in gilt. Very small amount of repair to spine. Corners slightly bumped. Spine label a bit rubbed. Signatures M and N a bit toned as usual. An excellent copy, complete and in an appropriate binding. Coleridge's first published book of poetry, and, apart from the first published act of The Fall of Robespierre, and the prose tracts, his first book. It had been Coleridge's original intention to increase the number of poems included to form two volumes and to dedicate them to Bowles. Sterling 185. Wise, Coleridge 8. HBS 65106. $6,000.
Published by London: printed for John Murray. by William Bulmer and co., 1816
Seller: Christopher Edwards ABA ILAB, Henley-on-Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo, pp. vii, [i], 64; bound third in a volume with nine other poems (see below); a fine and attractive volume in early calf, the covers stamped in basket-weave pattern, spine richly gilt, morocco label, marbled endpapers and edges. (Upper joint beginning to crack, othewise in very good condition.) Early armorial bookplate of the Rev. W.W. Holland, Chichester, and manuscript list of contents (perhaps in his hand) on free endpaper. A splendid volume of poetry, nicely presented with the spine labelled 'Minor Poems'. This is true for all but one of the pamphlets here - nobody today would describe either Christabel or Kubla Khan as 'minor' - but the accompanying poems certainly put Coleridge's two masterpieces into context. All the publications in this volume were issued by the firm of John Murray, at the time when it stood highest among London publishers: Byron was Murray's greatest success, of course, but Scott and Jane Austen were being published by him at exactly this time, as well as many other authors of lesser importance. This collection must have been assembled by going into 50 Albemarle St and picking out a number of current pamphlets that would have interested the buyer. On the other hand, they could well be a present from the publisher: the first owner was the Rev. William Woollams Holland (1785-1855), educated at Oxford and at this time vicar-choral at Chichester Cathedral. More importantly, he was married to Jane Murray (b. 1780), known as Jenny, elder sister of the publisher: they had at least one son, John Murray Holland (1818-77), who was a fellow of New College Oxford, and who followed his father into the church. When the elder John Murray had died in 1793, Jenny and her mother and sisters had gone to live in Shropshire, where she met and married Willam Holland in 1809, but she retained an interest in the family business: Zachs notes that she and her elder brother John were actively pursuing the firm's assets in 1800, at about the time that John gained effective control. The other works bound in here are: 1. [CROLY, George.] PARIS IN 1815. A poem. London: John Murray. 1817. 8vo, pp. [iii]-xii, [iii], 75, [1]. Jackson, Annals, p. 423. First edition 2. SCOTT, Walter. THE FIELD OF WATERLOO; a poem. Edinburgh: printed by James Ballantyne & co, for Archibald Constable and co. Edinburgh; and. John Murray, London. 1815. 8vo, pp. 56. Todd & Bowden 84Aa; Jackson p. 392. First edition. 3. [MALCOLM, Sir John.] PERSIA: A POEM. With notes. Second edition. London. John Murray. 1814. 8vo, pp. [iv], 38. Rare: neither the first nor this edition mentioned in Jackson, Annals. Malcolm (1769-1833) published his standard History of Persia the following year. 4. [KNIGHT, Henry Gally.] ILDERIM: A SYRIAN TALE. London: printed for John Murray. 1816. 8vo, pp. [vi], 74. Jackson p. 406. First edition. 5. HEMANS, Felicia Dorothea. THE RESTORATION OF THE WORKS OF ART TO ITALY: a poem. Second edition. Oxford. for J. Murray. 1816. 8vo, pp. [viii], 37. Jackson p. 412. 6. SMEDLEY, Edward. THE DEATH OF SAUL AND JONATHAN. A poem. London. for John Murray. 1814. 8vo, pp. [viii], 33. Jackson p. 378. First edition. 7. SMEDLEY, Edward. JONAH. A poem. London. for John Murray. 1815. 8vo, pp. [iv], 24, [4]. Jackson p. 394. First edition. 8. SMEDLEY, Edward. JEPHTHAH. A poem. London.for John Murray. 1814. 8vo, pp. [iv], 27, [1]. Jackson p. 380. First edition. 9. [CROKER, John Wilson.] THE BATTLES OF TALAVERA. A poem. Eighth edition, with some additions. London. for John Murray. 1810. 8vo, frontispiece portrait of Wellington, engraved map and pp. 43; slightly foxed. Jackson p. 335.
Published by The Arcadia Press, London, 1972
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated Edition. The sole UK printing published by The Arcadia Press, London in 1972. Number '9' of only 10 deluxe copies issued, from a total edition of 100 copies. Bound in full vellum with a separate portfolio of ten plates mounted, and all signed and numbered by the illustrator. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. The book is entirely hand manufactured. Hand bound by Zachnsdorf in full vellum. The limitation page is numbered and signed by the calligrapher David Howells, the paper-maker Philip Rowson and the illustrator Errol Le Cain. Illustrated with 10 full-page striking mounted colour plates by Errol Le Cain. The ten loose plates are in Fine condition and are within their original coloured mounts. They are all signed and numbered (number '9') by the illustrator. They are housed in the publisher's original marbled cloth portfolio with black ties. The portfolio case is complete and is a little rubbed in places. A sumptuous production and one of the highlights from the Arcadia Press. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Illustrator(s).
Published by Oxford University Press., Oxford University Press, 1949
Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom
pp. xxiv, 614. 8vo. Blue cloth. Reprint. Text block reattached to casing retaining all original endpapers. Ted Hughes and his sister Olwyn's copy from the library of Frieda Hughes, Ted and Sylvia Plath's daughter. On the front free endpaper is Olwyn's ownership signature and in Ted's hand a Coleridge Fragment beginning 'Grant me a patron, gracious Heaven! which he notes is Note 293 in the Notebooks. Olwyn has made four notes and several markings in the text in ink. She studied English Literature at Queen Mary College, London and graduated in 1950. Ted, using biro, has made markings in the margins on the Content that match up with the poems he selected for his book - A Choice of Coleridge's Verse, published Faber and Faber 1996. He has also made a note at the top of The Ancient Mariner 'Complete & read to Wordsworth's 23 March, 1798' Loosely inserted is a folded sheet of paper listing on both sides, in Hughes hand, the poems marked on the Contents. In A Choice of Coleridge's Verse Hughes has written a long and detailed Preface and Introduction in which he says that 'While my remarks in this essay are based mainly on easily accesible material in Coleridge's Poems and Notebooks.' The Notebooks, Volumes 1 - 4 were available to him, but the Bollingen Poetical Works in 3 volumes edited by J C C Mays were not. They were published in 2001. So brother and sister used this book as their source for the Poetical Works of Coleridge but at different times.
Published by London: Hurst, Chance, & Co., 1831, 1831
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Second edition, with excellent provenance: annotated by Coleridge's son, Derwent, on the first blank with an original, unpublished manuscript sonnet titled "To the Author" and signed and dated "D.C. June 1840", six years after the death of his father, as a memento for the book's owner, Sir William Maynard Gomm, who Wordsworth called his "much esteemed friend" (quoted in Eilenberg, p. 200). Derwent Coleridge (1800-1883) annotated this copy for Gomm during a pivotal moment in his life: a reconvert to Christianity, Derwent published the year before The Scriptural Character of the English Church, wading into the debate against the growing Oxford Movement that later developed into Anglo-Catholicism. In the following year he became the principal of the very first teacher training college, St Mark's College, Chelsea, and he spent the next two decades of his life shaping educational reform. Derwent took over the editorship of his father's works from his sister Sara Coleridge (1802-1852) following her death. Derwent occasionally expressed private dissatisfaction with his father, leaving family affairs behind in 1823 to become self-sufficient as a schoolmaster. Nevertheless, his manuscript poem remains a touching dedication: "While paths by Understanding never trod, / Reason pervades, through Angel-Choirs - to God!". Here Derwent agrees with his father's position, as stated in p. 206, that one's reason, being the "Power of universal and necessary Convictions, the Source and Substance of Truths above Sense", brings one closer to Heaven than one's understanding, which is limited by the fallibility of the human mind and sensory organs. Sir William Maynard Gomm (1784-1875), whose bookplate is found on the front pastedown, was the longest serving soldier in British military history and an avid lover of literature who frequently corresponded with Wordsworth. While still in mourning, Wordsworth wrote to Gomm on 24 March 1843 to describe the funeral of Robert Southey, which had taken place the previous day, and to explain that "Mr. [Samuel?] Rogers [and] I have not been in communication [since] I saw you in London, but be assured I shall bear in memory your message, and deliver it, if he and I live to meet again" (Letters, p. 261). In another instance, the two discussed how services to one's nation can receive no adequate financial recompense; recalling this exchange, Wordsworth wrote "this applies with tenfold force my friend [Gomm] goes on to say, in the case of sound literature in as much as the services here rendered [are] for all states & for all time. Still there has always appeared to me, something monstrous in the existing relation between Author & Bookseller or Publisher, as regards remuneration" (quoted in Eilenberg, p. 200). This question was of great importance to Wordsworth, as he vigourously campaigned Parliament to increase the length of copyright protections, arguing that writers deserved greater financial security in return for the priceless services they offer to mankind. Many decades later, Algernon Charles Swinburne would write in a pair of sonnets titled "Sir William Gomm": "O nursling of the sea-winds and the sea, Immortal England, goddess ocean-born, What shall thy children fear, what strengths not scorn, While children of such mould are born to thee?" (p. 230). Providing aphorisms and commentary designed to instruct the reader, Aids to Reflection challenges them with the question "if you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?" (p. xiv). The first edition was published in 1825. Haney 41. Susan Eilenberg, Strange Power of Speech: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Literary Possession, 1992; Letters of the Wordsworth Family from 1787 to 1855, vol. III, 1907; Algernon Charles Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse, and Other Poems, 1882. Octavo (186 x 111 mm). Contemporary half calf, smooth spine with red label, gilt rules, and blind tooling, marbled sides, sides and corners trimmed with triple blind fillets, brown endpapers, edges sprinkled red. Bound without half-title. Binding rubbed, wear to extremities, small splash mark to fore edge, splitting to inner hinges, book block remaining sound, faint damp stain and foxing to free endpapers and facing blanks, contents marked up in pencil. A good copy.
Published by Bristol: Printed for Douglas Cleverdon at the Fanfare Press, 1929, 1929
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First Jones edition, first impression, out-of-series presentation copy, inscribed by the illustrator to his friend Clarissa Eden, the wife of Britain's wartime foreign secretary (and later prime minister) Anthony Eden: "for Clarissa from David, Aug. 1956". In her memoirs, Clarissa Eden remembered meeting David Jones for the first time in London in the spring of 1939: "On my return to London I began seeing old friends. and one new, unique friend: the painter and writer David Jones. I expect I met him through Trim. He was a most unusual artist. Almost entirely a watercolourist: evanescent, dreamlike portraits or gardens or scenery. He had been seared by the First World War and wrote a masterpiece about it, In Parenthesis. He was very sensitive, reticent and sweet-natured. His book illustrations for The Ancient Mariner are exquisite. I had my copy on display at No. 10" (Eden, pp. 25-6). Clarissa Eden, Clarissa Eden: A Memoir. From Churchill to Eden, 2007. Quarto. Original white cloth-backed grey-blue boards, titles to spine gilt, fore and bottom edges uncut. 10 copper engravings. Spine faintly toned, a touch of wear to corners, offsetting to endpapers, contents clean and fresh with the engravings in sharp impression. A very good copy indeed.
Published by John Murray, London, 1816
First Edition Signed
First Edition. First Edition. Thin 8vo. Superbly bound in attractive full teal crushed levant with gilt ruling on edges of covers, spine with five raised bands and gilt ruled panels and stippled design work on bands, lettering and date, edges of boards with single gilt filet ruling, stamp-signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe on front dentelle. FIRST EDITION, containing the first printings of three of Coleridge's most celebrated poems. Half-title, no ads. Paul Francis Webster's copy (1907-1984), American lyricist (with his morocco bookplate). Also bookplate of Alfred Perlman, noted bibliophile and collector. Coleridge began writing "Christabel" as early as 1803. Coleridge composed "Kubla Khan" one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream in 1797, but he was unable to complete it in the original plan, being interrupted by "a person from Porlock," causing him to forget the lines. He would read the poem periodically to the Wordsworths, Lord Byron, and other friends, and in April 1816, Byron persuaded him to publish the visionary Kubla Khan and Christabel. Fine copy of a wonderful presentation and certainly an historically significant book in every way.
Published by Boosey and Rodwell & Martin, London., 1821
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. pp.viii, 86, 1 List of Plates. 28 plates, engraved by [Henry] Moses, from the original copper etchings which [Moritz] Ret[z]sch made for the German edition. Quarto. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper boards. Coleridge insisted that he "had never put pen to paper as a translator of \i Faust\i0 " which does not quite accord with what Goethe wrote in a letter to his son, in 1820, saying that Coleridge was already well under way with the translation. There are various theories as to why Coleridge did not wish his name put to the translation the most plausible of which, according to Frederick Burwick and James C. McKusick, editors of the 2007 Oxford University Press edition of \i Faustus\i0 , was that when he first undertook to do the translation, in 1814, he did not wish to be associated with Goethe's unorthodox religious views, which is ironic given that he seemed to be making Faustian pacts of his own, not least in his increasing use of opium. A more prosaic reason is that he had already received an advance of £100 for the translation from John Murray, a figure which he considered "humiliatingly low". Only about a quarter of the play was translated into verse, in a style recognisably Coleridge's, and the rest was summarised in prose passages. The fragile paper boards are rubbed at the edges and there is some sporadic spotting throughout, otherwise a very good copy.
Published by London: George G Harrap & Co., 1910
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. London: George G Harrap & Co., 1910 (dated at the rear), Signed Numbered Limited Edition, no 317 of 525 copies. In a sumptuous and beautiful contemporary full morocco leather binding with gilt titles to the spine and a gilt ship to the front board with red morocco onlay sails to the front, a white morocco albatross to the rear, and different colour morocco onlays to both front and rear boards; 4 metal discs to the rear. A contemporary one of a kind binding. SIGNED and numbered by the Illustrator Willy Pogany to the limitation page. Leather and gilt turn-ins with marbled end papers. Gilt gaufferred and coloured page edges. The binding is unsigned but is a thing of beauty. Pages unnumbered, with the required 20 tipped in plates by Willy Pogany. Approximately 12 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles and decoration. Joints very good condition gently rubbed and worn, a small spot of rubbing to the top of the front joint. Corners very good condition. Boards very good condition full morocco with a gilt and multicoloured morocco onlayed ship to the front board, a white morocco onlayed albatross to the rear board, with elaborate gilt decoration, the rear board with 4 metal discs to the corners. Page edges very good condition gilt, coloured and gauffered page edges. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition intact, solid with leather hinges. Paste downs very good condition marbled with leather and gilt turn-ins. Front end paper very good condition marbled, curved to the thick marbled card end paper. Title very good condition clean. Pages very good condition clean. Binding very good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1910 Binding: Hardback. Signed by Author(s).
Published by John Murray, London, 1816
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Bound in full red polished calf by Zaehnsdorf: gilt ruled on the boards, marbled end papers, all edge gilt. Bound without the half-title or ads. With the armorial bookplate of Duff Cooper, First Viscount Norwich, on the front paste-down. A bit of rubbing along the outer joint, but holding well. A few spots of foxing internally, mostly on the binder's blanks. A lovely copy of one of Coleridge's best works. Mythical in both its content and creation, Kubla Khan emerged from one of Coleridge's laudanum induced dreams. By his own account, Coleridge dreamt of the Mongol emperor not in his historical context as a tyrant, but as a figure of contradiction and artistic complexity. "Coleridge's Khan is a kind of artist, summoning into being with a God-like command not only the beauty of the pleasure-dome but the ordered loveliness of its cultivated gardens, full of sweet smells and tinkling streams, all sheltered from the outside world by robust â walls and towers'" (Perry). The final product is a poem hailed as one of Coleridge's greatest, and a landmark of Romanticism.
Published by Printed and Sold by James Humphreys, Philadelphia, 1802
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
2 vols. 16mo, old (contemporary) full calf; gilt paneled spine. First American edition, from the London Second Edition. There are a few tiny chips at the top corners of the spines; but a very attractive set, handsomely bound.
Published by Boosey & Sons, London, 1821
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First English language edition. First appearance of this controversial translation, over which translation attribution is still debated. Bound in twentieth century full calf with gilt to spine, measuring 279 x 226mm. Bound without half title, otherwise collating complete including frontis and 26 plates (27 plates in all): viii, 86, [2]. A Very Good+ to Near Fine copy with minimal scuffing and wear to corners. Typical light scattered foxing throughout. Small bookbinder's ticket to front pastedown; discreet library ticket to rear pastedown "From the Collection of David & Patricia Corey" (library auctioned 30 May 2018 in Norfolk). In all, an extremely pleasing example of this classic narrative of temptation. Considered the first substantial translation into English of Goethe's work, controversy still exists over who deserves credit for it. Though Coleridge had begun a translation for John Murray in 1814, he declared that it was never completed. "In 1820, when demand was high in England for a translation to accompany Retzsch's iconic illustrations, George Soane answered the call with a series of excerpted captions. He was followed by Daniel Boileau, who contributed to the Boosey edition.both sold out quickly, but Thomas Boosey had initiated plans for a second edition of this version two months before the first edition appeared. He thus turned to Coleridge for 'friendly advice'.The new text was twenty-nine pages longer, and could be bound with the plates or separately as an original publication" (Burwick & McKusick).
Published by William Bulmer and Co. for John Murray, London, 1816
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition, first printing. Hard cover, 8vo, (5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches), in modern binding of red morocco, the boards ruled in gilt, small florets to corners, the spine with two raised bands, outlined in gilt, title tooled lengthways to spine. Text edges untrimmed. INCLUDES the 4-page publisher's advertisements at rear, dated Feb., 1816. Collation: vii, [1], 64, [4 ads] [2]. Signatures [A]4, B-E8, [F]3. Stated First Edition. First printing of the three poems. Provenance signature in old ink to head of title page: "Sir James Dalrymple Hay Bt." **CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Exterior boards are slightly bowed. Top board lightly dented in two places. Inside, front pastedown with light pencil notes, light erasure. No sign of foxing to the modern prelims. The original text block is lightly age toned, less so to center of book. Light edge-browning and a bit of edge-fraying and other inconsequential (1/16th inch?) edge folds show to some pages. Light spots of foxing throughout. Old damp staining affects the top edge of pages in several different sections of the book, but this does not affect the text. Originally released in wraps, condition was prone to deteriorate with enthusiastic reading before being hard bound Additional photos seen at our website**Author SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1722-1834), premier English Romantic poet, was a close friend of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Mary Shelley. The group were famous for their post-prandial readings of Romantic stories and poems. One notable incident recalls Byron reading Coleridge's "Christabel" and frightening Shelley into a panic attack. Mary Shelly suffered a nightmare at one of those gatherings and subsequently wrote her 1818 masterpiece, "Frankenstein". ** The three poems in this book, all with the poet's preface remarks, represent some of the best, most anthologized work of STC. The title poem "Christabel" tells of a spirit-adjacent woman in white found in the woods by Christabel, the daughter of the ailing Lord Leonine. Her arrival in the castle brings about the revelation of a dark secret, which Christabel is enchanted to prevent from revealing. She nonetheless tries to warn her father to send the stranger away - but to no avail. **The unfinished "Kubla Khan" tells of the palace built in Xanadu by the Chinese warrior emperor Kublai Khan (1215 -1294) describing, in a dreamlike state, the walled gardens of the palace; a "savage place", "holy and inchanted." The poem is both an enchantment and a warning.**Finally, "The Pains of Sleep" is based on the poet's frequent real life nightmares, caused both by his extensive use of opium, and later by the effects of opium withdrawal. Coleridge's final wish is simply this: "To be Beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed."**The book features a really interesting LITERARY HISTORY ASSOCIATION. The original owner of the volume, Sir James Dalrymple-Hay, 2nd. Baronet (1788-1861) lived in the 16th-century tower house inherited by his father, the first baronet. (The Hay name was appended to this branch of the Dalrymple family in 1794 upon the death of the second baronet's father-in-law, Sir Thomas Hay of Park.) Park Place, or the Castle of Park, is located in Glenluce, outside the Royal Burgh of Wigtown, in modern Dumfries and Galloway, on the southwest coast of Scotland. Antiquarian Richard Pococke visited in 1760, describing it as "a castle most beautifully situated on a ridge which is at the foot of hill, having towards the river a steep hanging ground covered with wood, and a more gentle descent southwards to the meadows on the bay adorned with trees." (Kemp, p.13.) This lowland, mainly agricultural area was written about extensively by nearby author Sir Walter Scott in various of his famous nineteenth -century "Waverley" novels. Scott's "Introduction" to his 1819 work, "The Bride of Lammermoor," explains the real-life origin of the novel associated with a SCANDAL regarding the family of the first Earl of Stair, Sir John Dalrymple(1648-1707,) a forebear of our book's owner, styled James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, Lord Glenluce and Stranraer, 1st Baronet (1619-1695). In the novel, a young woman, Lucy Ashton, is forced by her conniving mother to break off with her true love, The Master of Ravenswood, in order to marry a more wealthy man, Lord Rutherford. Wedding night violence saw the bride gripped with what the family claimed was necromancy-fuelled evil in the bridal chamber. The new husband saw an early tragic demise. This was apparently based on a real-life scandal involving members of the Dalrymple family, whom Scott knew of and was distantly related to through aquaintances of his wife. All this is explained in Scott's own words in his Introduction to the novel, published three years after the release of "Christabel" in 1816. Literary historian Coleman O. Parsons provides several interesting retellings of the facts as related in his 1934 article cited below. Sir John Dalrymple-Hay, 3rd Bart., sold the Castle of Park in 1875. It seems clear that the Castle of Park in Glenluce is the setting in which the real tragedy of the Dalrymple family occurred in the seventeenth century. Literary historians can debate the similarities between the Poem "Christabel " and this real-life tragedy; simply put, they both concern a baron in a castle near the Scottish border with England, a daughter on the verge of marriage, and tragedy tinged with superstition.*****Refs.: European Heraldry, "House of Dalrymple." (online.) Grolier, English (1902) p. 141. Parsons, Coleman O., " The Dalrymple Legend in the Bride of Lammermoor," Review of English Studies, Jan. 1943, Vol. 19, No. 73. pp. 51-58. Kemp, Daniel Tours in Scotland by Richard Pococke, (Edinburgh: HMS, 1887). Scott, Sir Walter, "The Bride of Lamermoor, " (Project Gutenburg, 2021.) Simpson, W. Douglas, "Scottish Castles, An Introduction," (Edinburgh: HMS, 1959.) Wise, Thomas J., Ashley Library, Vol. 1 (1913) p. 204. Hayward 207. Tinker 693. OCLC 138003. Ownership signature to title pa.
Published by Printed for G.G. & J. Robinsons; Bristol: J. Cottle. 1796, 1796
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Half title, errata leaf, final ad. leaf. Handsomely bound in recent half speckled calf, vellum-tipped corners, spine with gilt bands & maroon morocco label. A v.g. attractive copy. ESTC T125613. Wise 8. The first edition of Coleridge's first collection of verse, 'written at different times and prompted by very different feelings'. The Preface advises, 'The Effusions signed C.L. were written by Mr. Charles Lamb, of the India House - independently of the signature their superior merit would have sufficiently distinguished them'.
Published by John Murray; William Bulmer and Co, London, 1816
Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). Three poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the second edition of this smartly bound volume. The second edition, published in the same year as the first.Half-title is present.Three of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems published in one volume; 'Christabel', 'Kubla Khan', and 'The Pains of Sleep'.All three of these poems were penned years before being first published in this volume.'Christabel' concerns the eponymous character and her meeting with a strange woman named Geraldine, who claims to have been abducted by a band of men.'Kubla Khan' is vastly different in style of Coleridge's other poems, the author claiming to have written the work after and opium-induced sleep after reading a work describing Shangdu. Written in 1797, Coleridge only privately shared this work with his friends, before Lord Byron encouraged him to publish it in 1816.Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher. He founded the Romantic movement along with his friend William Wordsworth. He is best known for his poems 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Kahn' as well as his influential critical works. In a half crushed morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smart, with only a few light marks to the leather. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with some scattered spots. Very Good Indeed. book.
Published by London printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press for Editions Alecto, 1976
Book Signed
Number XVI of XXV special copies with 4 additional prints and signed by the artist, Patrick Procktor, from an edition limited to 14; 4to (360 x 285 mm); aquatint portrait and 11 plates, some printed in colours, the additional aquatints all numbered & signed in pencil and loose in pocket at end, loose tissue-guards (as published); publisher's black morocco-backed blue-grey morocco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, upper cover blocked with gilt albatross and ship at sea, spine titled in gilt, uncut, very slight fading to spine, otherwise a fine copy, original marbled board slip-case.