Lot 450
  • 450

COLERIDGE, POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, 1796 (1 VOL.)

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Poems on Various Subjects. For C.G. and J. Robinson, and J. Cottle, 1796
  • paper
small 8vo, FIRST EDITION, without half-title but with errata and advertisement leaves at the end, near contemporary blue morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, upper joint repaired and cracking, lower joint starting, some further wear to extremities, minor browning to text

Provenance

Percy L. Babington, armorial bookplate

Literature

Wise p.62; Tinker 678; Hayward 206

Condition

In addition to any condition described in the catalogue, the upper cover is detached.
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Catalogue Note

FIRST EDITION OF THE POET'S FIRST BOOK OF POEMS, also containing the first published verses of Charles Lamb.