COLERIDGE, (SAMUEL TAYLOR), CHARLES LAMB AND CHARLES LLOYD. | Poems, by S.T. Coleridge, Second Edition, to Which Are Now Added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd. London: N. Biggs, 1797

COLERIDGE, (SAMUEL TAYLOR), CHARLES LAMB AND CHARLES LLOYD.

Poems, by S.T. Coleridge, Second Edition, to Which Are Now Added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd. London: N. Biggs, 1797 

8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.; 175 x 105 mm). Half title and errata; title foxed. Original brown boards; front cover detached, spine rebacked, extremities rubbed. 

Second edition of Coleridge's Poems in original boards, but the first edition of many of the works included in the collection. Coleridge remarks in his Preface: "I have pruned the double-epithets with no sparing hand; and used my best efforts to tame the swell and glitter both of thought and diction." Inscribed by the Beeston Club to Mr. Dominick Daly. 

REFERENCES

Ashley I, p.199; Tinker 679; Wise Coleridge, 11

PROVENANCE

Robert Porter (bookplate front paste-down) — The Beeston Club (inscription front paste-down) — Domick Daly (inscription front free endpaper) — S.D. Coleridge (inscription) — William H. Painter (booklabel front pastedown)