[Rarebooks] FS: Coleridge, Byron, Southey, Lamb, etc. Important and Early Anthology of Romantic Poetry, 1799-1800

[Charles Agvent]

(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unpublished), Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Robert Lovell, 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. Pages 31-32 contained Southey's 
"War Poem," but were canceled as the poem was considered unpatriotic. 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. (#014530)        $2,500.00

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