Book Description

First Edition. The principal primary source for Coleridge's gifted daughter; it includes an account of S.T.C.'s death, and the surprising information that he left an insurance policy worth £2560, a considerable sum then for a chronically impoverished poet. Bound by Zaehnsdorf, and with armorial bookplate of John Theodore Merz (1840-1922), Vice Chairman of the Newcastle upon Tyne Electricity Supply Company.
Author COLERIDGE (Sara)
Date 1873
Binding well bound in full deep purple morocco, gilt borders on sides, spines gilt panelled and lettered, gilt edges and inside borders,
Publisher Henry S. King,
Illustrator With 2 engraved portraits,
Condition joints slightly rubbed but an attractive copy.
Pages 2 vols, pp.18 + 353 & 16, 11-406,

Price: £160.00

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