[Rarebooks] FS: The first printing of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in America

[Charles Agvent]

One of many interesting 19th Century American and British Literary items 
on our website: http://www.charlesagvent.com including signed pieces by 
William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Mark Twain, Henry 
Wadsworth Longfellow, and many others with some superb pieces to be 
cataloged in the coming months.

WORDSWORTH, William (COLERIDGE, Samuel T.). LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER 
POEMS: IN TWO VOLUMES. Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1802. First 
Edition. Two volumes bound in one in contemporary calf recently 
rebacked. The First American Edition printed from the Second London 
Edition and including the first printing of Coleridge's "The Rime of the 
Ancient Mariner" in America. Shaw & Shoemaker, 3593. This copy sold at 
the George H. Conley sale, 12 January 1911, lot #1623. Armorial 
bookplate of William Richards Castle on the front pastedown and pencil 
signature on the front endpaper dated 1907 of American poet Alan Seeger 
who, as a member of the French Foreign Legion, was killed in action 4 
July 1916 on the Somme at the age of 28. Seeger's poem, "I Have a 
Rendevous with Death, " was the most popular and widely-quoted American 
poem of World War I. In 1907 Seeger was a freshman at Harvard, and 
Castle's son was finishing his doctoral studies there. Also an early 
owner inscription on the front blank to Ann Wharton from "C. H. W." 
Wharton's name neatly excised on the blank margins of two text pages. 
Some staining on a few pages at the rear. Very Good or better and quite 
scarce. (#014549)        $7,500.00

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