[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Collection of Early Romantic Poetry, 1799-1800
Charles Agvent
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(BYRON, Lord); (COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor); [SOUTHEY, Robert - editor]
et. al. THE ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY in two volumes. Bristol: Biggs and Co.,
1799 & 1800. First Edition. Two volumes (4" x 6-1/2") bound in recent
half brown morocco with matching corners retaining the original marbled
boards, all edges marbled. Leaf B8 (pages 31-32) lacking in first
volume, as usual; C3 in second volume in uncancelled state, with word
"wicked" present on page 37, line 9. [Tinker 1953; Wise, Coleridge, 15].
Contributions by Samuel T. Coleridge (27 poems, some previously
unpublished), Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Robert Lovell,
Humphry Davy, Amelia Opie, and others. A third volume was advertised but
never published. A remarkable and important collection of early Romantic
poetry, here in unusually nice condition. Near Fine, handsomely bound.
$2,500.00
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