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FIRST EDITION, occasional faint spots, rear endpaper with small internal tear, without 4pp ads, pp. xii, [iv], 404, 8vo, near contemporary prize calf binding, boards gilt-ruled with gilt-stamped armorial medallion of Trinity College, Dublin on each board, rebacked with silver-lettered morocco label, marbled endpapers and text block edges, endpaper with small bookseller's ticket (Grant Bolton, Dublin), pastedown with Trinity College armorial prize bookplate: Hilary term, 1831, authorised by Franc Sadleir, the prize winnner's name rubbed away, edges worn, good. One of Coleridge's most influential theological works, in which he aims both to revise Anglican orthodoxy by reviving the writings of seventeenth-century divines such as Archbishop Leighton, and to expose the shortcomings of contemporary spiritual movements, notably, Unitarianism and rational theology. The penultimate work to be published during Coleridge's lifetime, the wide-ranging nature of the aphorisms attesting to the poet's intellectual curiosity and breadth of reading. The prize copy was issued under the tenure of Franc Sadleir, a somewhat controversial Trinity College figure, who, at this point was Doneelan Lecturer, librarian, bursar and Erasmus Smith professor of mathematics, simultaneously drawing salaries for each position. Seller Inventory # 76212
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