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[Fantasy Novel] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 348 [44]. A very early issue, with the publisher's catalogue dated February 1874. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a silver urn decoration stamped to upper. Brown-coated endpapers. Hinges split, but holding firm. Gently toned throughout, with spotting to first and final few leaves, otherwise internally clean. Moderate general wear to cloth, with some loss to head and tail of spine, and toning to spine. Good. Arguably the first modern Fantasy novel, originally published in a small edition of 250 copies in 1837 by the daughter of Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Colderidge. Unusual for nineteenth-century literature, it is not burdened by high moral didacticism or intimately drawn characters, but is instead focused on its Fantastic plot, set in the wild landscape of Cumberland and Westmorland, and interspersed with poetry. This second edition, published by her family to bring the little-known work to a wider audience, is also rare.…

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. . 1874, green boards, decoration rubbed, head & tail of spine weak, edges rubbed, inner hinge exposed, endpaper loosening, no markings in text, reading copy,Professional booksellers since 1981.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Good original decorative cloth, gilt titles, cnrs bumped & worn, edges worn, spine deteriorating, hinges cracked but still holding firmly, former owner's name & inscription in ink to ffep, else internally near fine throughout. A solid & square copy. Sara Coleridge was the only daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Phantasmion is modelled on Spencer's Faerie Queene, telling of the eponymous Prince in the Land of Faerie. Originally published in 1837, it was the first Fairy Tale novel written in English.…

[Fantasy Novel] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 348 [44]. A very early issue, with the publisher's catalogue dated February 1874. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a silver urn decoration stamped to upper. Brown-coated endpapers, with the binder's label of Burns & Co. to rear pastedown. Repairs to split hinges. A nice clean copy, with a moderate tobacco scent. Slightly toned to spine, with light wear to cloth. Very good. Arguably the first modern Fantasy novel, originally published in a small edition of 250 copies in 1837 by the daughter of Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Colderidge. Unusual for nineteenth-century literature, it is not burdened by high moral didacticism or intimately drawn characters, but is instead focused on its Fantastic plot, set in the wild landscape of Cumberland and Westmorland, and interspersed with poetry. This second edition, published by her family to bring the little-known work to a wider audience, is also rare.…

Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv-viii [ix-xi] xii-xvi [1] 2-348, flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated terra-cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, brown coated endpapers. Third U.S. edition. First published as a limited edition of 250 copies in 1837 by William Pickering. This Roberts Brothers edition was printed from the plates of UK second edition published by Henry S. King & Co. in 1874 which includes an introductory preface by Sir John Duke Coleridge (1820-1894), lord chief justice of England, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's nephew and Sara Coleridge's cousin. A rare precursor of the journey-to-faeryland that has characterized the structure and content of the quest motif in nineteenth and twentieth century fantastic literature. The major literary effort of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's daughter, ". an important precursor of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasies. Besides the intricacies of plot, character, and genealogy, PHANTASMION has a theme in common with Tolkien's works: the virtues of pastoralism and the disruptive force of industrialism." - Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1238-40. A remarkable tale, modeled on Edmund Spenser's THE FAERIE QUEEN (1590; 1596), the "first fairy tale novel written in English." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 210. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-28. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 391. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 55. Bleiler (1978), p. 46. Reginald 03174. Spine lean, cloth lightly rubbed at spine panel ends and corner tips, a bright, nearly fine copy with tight inner hinges. A lovely copy. (#158406). …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, (1 of 250 copies only). First edition, and very SCARCE. One of 250 copies printed. Hard cover, 8vo, (16cm ht.), finely bound in blue three-quarter morocco gilt over marble paper-covered boards, the spine with six raised bands rolled in gilt and blind, with the title to the second compartment. All edges trimmed and marbled. Matching marbled endpapers. (2), 387, (3)pp. Printer London: C. Wittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. CONDITION: Very Good. Moderate rubbing to board surfaces, splits to head and foot of the outer joints have been repaired. Hinges in order. Foxing to prelims including title page. Otherwise, the text block is remarkably clean and bright, with only a minor blemish near top margin to pages 5-7. A former owner's name in pencil to the verso of ffep. **This work by the English AUTHOR and translator SARAH COLERIDGE (1802-1852), the only daughter of the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) and his first wife Sara, was written when she was thirty five years old. She was self-taught in the Classics, as well as French German, Italian and Spanish. As described by her relative, John Duke Coleridge, Lord Advocate of England, in the Preface to an 1874 edition, the work was written on the Author's sickbed in 1837, and consisted of "a small edition [250 copies] of a long fairy tale by an unnamed author. The few copies sold slowly, and were at length exhausted. The book has long been out of print; and even amongst men of letters, and men interested in the character and admiring the genius of Sara Coleridge, it is almost unknown or forgotten."(p. vi) He identifies the scenery in the work as that of Cumberland and West Moreland, "only under a brighter sky and with a softer climate." He concludes: "Indeed the general literary excellence of the book fits it for all ages and readers. The fairies and spirits of the book, its heroes, witches, its maidens and its kings, have been and may be again, household words with intelligent children, and may once more live, as they have lived already, in their minds, and give names and characters to their bright and pleasant play." (p. vii). "Phantasmion," can also be seen as a precursor to the fantasy genre along the lines of George MacDonald's "Phantastes" (1858), and C.S.Lewis's Narnia books. REFS: Bleiler, 246. J.D. Coleridge, Preface to "Phantasmion," (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874.) Watson 515. Wolff 1316. Book. …

Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-387 [388: blank], two flyleaves at front, one at rear, publisher's green cloth, new printed paper label affixed to spine panel, all edges untrimmed, white endpapers. First edition. Limited to 250 copies. A rare precursor of the journey-to-faeryland that has characterized the structure and content of the quest motif in nineteenth and twentieth century fantastic literature. The major literary effort of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's daughter, an important and highly original British heroic fantasy "whose scope is later echoed in Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS." - Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 224. ". an important precursor of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasies. Besides the intricacies of plot, character, and genealogy, PHANTASMION has a theme in common with Tolkien's works: the virtues of pastoralism and the disruptive force of industrialism." - Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1238-40. A remarkable tale, modeled on Edmund Spenser's THE FAERIE QUEEN (1590; 1596), the "first fairy tale novel written in English." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 210. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-28. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 391. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 55. Bleiler (1978), p. 46. Reginald 03174. Wolff 1316. Keynes, p. 60. Several short splits to cloth along outer joints, shallow loss at lower spine end, corner tips worn, several rubs to cloth, a sound, good copy. Most extant copies of this book have been rebound. It is exceedingly scarce in the original cloth. (#166680).…

First American edition. First American edition. [xii], 197, 12 (publisher's list); [iv], 204, [xii] pp. Complete in two volumes. Bound in original drab boards over modern rebacked dark brown morocco leather spines lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with slight fading to spines, light scuffing and minor spot at bottom of volume II. Boards are soiled and worn at edges, corners bumped. Fore-edges are typically foxed. Original endpapers have female inscriptions dated to year of publication; old hand ownership markings by women on following prelims as well. Contents lightly toned with minor foxing. This first US printing in the Colman's Library of Romance series is scarce, even more so than the British edition two years earlier. Scarce supernatural fantasy novel by Sara Coleridge (1802-1852), the only daughter of literary giant and poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). The protagonist is visited by a spectre-like creature who introduces him to a parallel world. Many critics consider this work to be an early precursor to the modern fantasy novel; one critic in 2021 going so far as to dub it "the first fantasy novel." Magill called it "an important precursor of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasies.".…

Second edition. 8vo. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, ruled in gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, a little shaken, presentation inscriptions to front free endpapers. xvi, 348, [4], 39ads, [1]pp. London, Henry S. King, A family copy of Sara Coleridge?s important prose and poetic fantasy tale, doubly inscribed on the front free endpaper, firstly by her daughter ?Sara Du Sautoy from Edith Coleridge? and then by Edith?s first cousin ?Ethel Boyce from Ernest Hartley Coleridge October 1877.? The double inscription is a little mysterious: Ethel Boyce (1863 - 1936), musician: her mother Anne had been a friend of Ernest Hartley Coleridge, who wrote and read the appreciation at her funeral; Sara du Sautoy is harder to pin down but may have been connected to the Rev. W.S.O. du Sautoy, a correspondent of the Coleridges.   The book ? a fantasy grounded in memories of her Lake District childhood - was written ?during a period of Sara?s most intense illness? (Mudge), which left her addicted to opium, and was inspired by her memories of growing up in the Lake District amongst the literary friends and family of her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Jeffrey W. Barbeau in his recent book on Sara Coleridge described it as her ?most influential contribution to fiction? and it has long been identified as an important early work in the genre of fantasy fiction. She later said of Phantasmion, ?I should never had put together such a string of waking dreams . if I had not been confined to my couch indoors, withdrawn from those sights of natural objects which I had been taking in, during my whole childhood and early youth, incessantly? (Swaab p.16).   Barbeau, J. Sara Coleridge her Life and Thought, New York, 2014; Mudge, B., Sara Coleridge A Victorian Daughter, New Haven, 1989; Swaab, P., The Regions of Sara Coleridge?s Thought . New York, 2012. …