Lot 314
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[Southey, Coleridge & Lamb]
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 14 February 2018 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Annual Anthology, The. Bristol: Printed by Biggs and Co. for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, London. 1799 [-1800]. First edition, 2 volumes., all published, small 8vo, contemporary speckled calf by Charles Kalthoeber with his ticket, gilt fillet on covers, spines gilt, red and black morocco labels, leaf B8 in volume I excised as usual to remove Southey's 'War Poem', because of its possibly unpatriotic sentiments; C3 in volume II a cancel as usual to correct the omission of a word in Southey's 'The Battle of Blenheim', joints a little tender, headbands chipped, [Wise, Coleridge, 15; Ashley Library, VIII, 83]
Footnote
Note: Edited by Southey, the anthologies contain contributions from most of his early circle of friends. Coleridge is the main contributor, after Southey himself, with no fewer than twenty-seven poems. Other contributors included Lamb, Cottle, Robert Lovell, Charles Lloyd, Francis Wrangham, Thomas Beddoes Sr., Humphry Davy, and Amelia Opie. Many of the poems are unsigned or signed by pseudonym, but their authors are largely known from notes in Southey's own copy now at Harvard and from Coleridge's at Yale.