Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Poems
£1,188
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
London: by N. Biggs, for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803. Third edition, 12mo (15.5 x 9.6cm), contemporary marbled calf, advertisement leaf to rear, bookplate (Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baron Gilmour, 1857-1939), rubbed, joints cracked;
Byron, George Gordon, Lord. The Prisoner of Chillon, and Other Poems. London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, first issue, 8vo, original wrappers, half-title, 4 pp. advertisements (dated November 1816), bookplate to half-title (J. R. Hutchinson, motto 'perseverando'), housed in customer green cloth chemise and slipcase with a copy of The Siege of Corinth, 1816, second edition, 8vo, original wrappers, 4 pp. advertisements, bookplate;
Idem. Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. London: John Murray, 1821. First edition, first issue (with Doge's speech on p.151 beginning 'What crimes?'), 8vo, original boards, half-title, advertisement leaf, inner hinges strengthened, occasional spotting;
and 19 others, poetry (these not collated), including: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, Two Poems. London: Chapman & Hall, 1854 (first edition, original wrappers); Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, 1852 (first edition, original wrappers); William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works, 1870 (Centenary Edition, 6 volumes, contemporary straight-grain red morocco); Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos XV. and XVI, 1824 (first edition, boards, Baron Gilmour bookplate); Swinburne, A Note of an English Republican on the Muscovite Crusade, 1876 (4 copies, first editions, original wrappers); and similar including more by Byron (27)