Description
Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Poems...to which are now added Poems by Charles Lamb, and Charles Lloyd, second edition, with additional line & correction in ink to p.145 and correction to p.105 in the ?author's hand, the additional line cropped with loss of final letter, lacking 4 leaves at beginning (title, half-title, contents leaf and final leaf of Preface) and final 3 leaves (pp.273-278, final poem 'A Vision of Repentance'), also the rare the errata slip, title supplied from another work, Dedication foxed & soiled and with upper outer corner torn away causing loss to 2 lines on verso, some other foxing and soiling, ink signature "J.Rogers Rees, Sarum" to front free endpaper and with several pencil notes and tipped-in cuttings to endpapers, contemporary morocco, rubbed and marked, Bristol and London, 1797; and a copy of the third edition of 1803, 8vo (2)
⁂ The additional line is to 'Religious Musings' and is written following line 376: "Roll subtly-surging. Pressing on his steps", with "years" altered to "days" in line 378. In the third edition of 1803 this appears as "Pass in fine surges. Pressing on his steps" and "years" is not corrected. The other correction is the deletion of the comma following "Sad" in the second verse of 'To an Unfortunate Woman'.
J.Rogers Rees, of Salisbury, British banker and writer, author of The Pleasures of a Bookworm, 1886 and 'Hazlittiana' in Notes & Queries, 1908.
Lot 54
Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Poems..., with 3 corrections in ink ?in the author's hand, Bristol and London, 1797 & a third edition (2)
Hammer Price: £900
Description
Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Poems...to which are now added Poems by Charles Lamb, and Charles Lloyd, second edition, with additional line & correction in ink to p.145 and correction to p.105 in the ?author's hand, the additional line cropped with loss of final letter, lacking 4 leaves at beginning (title, half-title, contents leaf and final leaf of Preface) and final 3 leaves (pp.273-278, final poem 'A Vision of Repentance'), also the rare the errata slip, title supplied from another work, Dedication foxed & soiled and with upper outer corner torn away causing loss to 2 lines on verso, some other foxing and soiling, ink signature "J.Rogers Rees, Sarum" to front free endpaper and with several pencil notes and tipped-in cuttings to endpapers, contemporary morocco, rubbed and marked, Bristol and London, 1797; and a copy of the third edition of 1803, 8vo (2)
⁂ The additional line is to 'Religious Musings' and is written following line 376: "Roll subtly-surging. Pressing on his steps", with "years" altered to "days" in line 378. In the third edition of 1803 this appears as "Pass in fine surges. Pressing on his steps" and "years" is not corrected. The other correction is the deletion of the comma following "Sad" in the second verse of 'To an Unfortunate Woman'.
J.Rogers Rees, of Salisbury, British banker and writer, author of The Pleasures of a Bookworm, 1886 and 'Hazlittiana' in Notes & Queries, 1908.