Lloyd, Charles.

folio, 14 leaves, wove paper, first edition, modern blue half morocco gilt, minor soiling to margins, some occasional spotting, library stamps on title page and p.11, slight wear to edges of binding

Liverpool Library, stamps on title page and p.11; Hannah D. Rabinowitz, morocco booplate; Abel E. Berland, the sale of his library at Christie's New York, 9 October 2001, lot 270

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one of only a few known copies of this very rare pamphlet.  Apart from the present copy, only one other is recorded as having been sold at auction since the war (the James B. Clemens copy, sold at Parke-Bernet, 9 January 1945, lot 307).

The sonnet on p.3 is written by Coleridge, and Lamb's "The Grandam" appears on pp.25-27.

The poet Charles Lloyd, Charles (1775–1839)  was born in Birmingham in 1775, the eldest son of Charles Lloyd, the Quaker banker and writeSeealsoLink('../../view/article/16820/', "Charles Lloyd (1748–1828)") philanthropist, and his wife, Mary Farmer (1751?–1821). His first volume of poems appeared in Carlisle in 1795. The following year he met Coleridge when the latter visited Birmingham to enlist subscribers to his newspaper, The Watchman, and  was so "attracted by Coleridge's conversation that he offered to pay him £80 a year, in return for staying with him and having the benefit of his conversation" (Oxford DNB). They lived together in Kingsdown, Bristol, and Lloyd came to know others in radical and literary circles in that city, including Robert Southey and Joseph Cottle. The present series of poems was reprinted in the second edition of Coleridge's Poems (1797), with the text of Lamb's "The Grandame" changed to read "Thy honour'd memory".