DIARY, REMINISCENCES, AND CORRESPONDENCE OF HENRY CRABB ROBINSON, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, F.S.A.

8vo, three volume set, pp,xxiii,509,iv,529,v,598, tissue guarded portrait frontispiece to volume one, gilt titled blind panelled green cloth, publisher's advertisements to each volume, errata leaf, uncut, trifle foxing, an attractive set. Robinson, an English lawyer was born in Bury St. Edmunds in 1775 and died in London in 1867. He never married and is remembered as a diarist. He took part in the founding of London University. Between 1800-1805 he studied in Germany meeting men of letters including Goethe and Schiller. He was a correspondent to The Times and became a war correspondent. This work contains reminiscences of central figures of the English Romantic Movement including Coleridge, Charles Lamb, William Blake and William Wordsworth. As this is a heavy item postage may be extra.