Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S.T. Coleridge

The first edition of a revealing collection of correspondence and thoughts from the Romantic genius, collected and edited by his 'favourite disciple'. The first edition of Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S.T. Coleridge, a collection of personal correspondence from the prolific Romantic poet, edited by 'his favourite disciple' and political radical Thomas Allsop. Published in 1836, two years after the poet's death. In contemporary half green calf, with marble boards. Contains contemporary end papers. Bound without half-titles when compared with copies held by the Hathi Trust. Contains the bookplates of James Gay to the the front pastedowns. believed to be the British-Canadian eccentric who would later coin himself 'Poet Laureate of Canada'. While being a regular host to Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt, Allsop was most enamoured by his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge, best known today as one of his most ardent supporters. This collection of letters offers readers valuable insight into the life and thoughts of Coleridge while also revealing insights on Allsop, with many letters beleived to be tainted by Alsopp's idolisation. Alsopp would later be implicated in the Orsini Assassination attempt against Napoleon III, and would become a friend of Marx and Engels. In contemporary half green calf, with marble boards. Contains contemporary end papers. Bound without half-titles when compared with copies held by the Hathi Trust. Externally, fading patches and faint grazes to boards, a heavier scratch to rear board of II. Heavy knocks to the extremities. Wear to spine labels with slight loss, and rubbing marks to spines and to extremities. Very light cracking to joints but firm. Light spotting to extremities of end papers, heavier to rear end papers of II. Gay's bookplates to front pastedowns with faint offsetting to front free end papers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are mostly bright and clean, with faint spots to immediate first and final leaves, and minor age toning to leaf extremities. Good.…