Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Christabel: Kubla Khan, etc. London, 1816, first edition

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision; the Pains of Sleep. London: John Murray, 1816

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (226 x 143 mm.), half-title, 4pp. advertisements at end dated February 1816, original paper wrappers with manuscript ink title on upper cover ('Christabel | V | 39 ─'), leaves uncut, green cloth slip case, top of half-title restored, small ink stains to flyleaf, occasional light soling, abrasions to inside front cover, wrappers slightly soiled, backstrip slightly torn

Each of the above three poems appeared in print for the first time in this volume.

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